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Skylar Tibbits: Tesselion is a project by Skylar Tibbits which proposes a system of flat panel tessellation derived from complex surfaces to enable ease in constructability and a directly evolved spatial environment through lighting, programmatic adaptation and structural simplicity. Each panel’s uniqueness is afforded by the efficiency of digital fabrication while coded parametric relationships allow an emergent structural efficiency, from a single panel to the complete adaptability of the surface as a whole. read more

Over the next several days, weeks, months we will be expanding the photo journalism and general image collection over on our flickr page. It will consist of images that are new, old, original and found. We have a new link in the third column on the right of the page.  When there are major additions or guest contributors there will be some mention of it on the front page in the form or a post or announcement. Over time it will be trimmed and pruned but for now it is a bit of a free for all.  enjoy>>> core.form-ula on flickr

PHILLIPS DE PURY & COMPANY, NEW YORK PRESENTS ATMOSPHERICS, A GROUND-BREAKING GALLERY EXHIBITION OF “OBJECT ARCHITECTURE” BY ASYMPTOTE FOUNDER HANI RASHID

Phillips de Pury & Company is pleased to announce the groundbreaking exhibition Atmospherics, by Asymptote founder Hani Rashid. The works presented in this important show embody Asymptote’s radical architecture practice built on hybridity and spatial explorations. All of the works in the show are linked by their shared, formal exploration of objects subjected to speed and movement such as auto bodies or aerospace prototypes.

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 A Message from President Amy Gutmann and Provost Ron Daniels

We are writing to inform you that we have selected to be the next Dean of the School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania, effective October 1, 2008. Marilyn Taylor, Partner in Charge of the Urban Design and Planning Practice at Skidmore Owings & Merrill LLP and the first woman to serve as Chairman of Skidmore Owings & Merrill, is internationally known for her distinguished and passionate involvement in the design of large-scale urban projects and civic initiatives. Over a 35 year career with Skidmore Owings & Merrill, she has led many of the firm’s largest and most complex projects around the world. She was also both the first architect and the first woman to serve as chairman (2005-07) of the Urban Land Institute, a non-profit research and educational institution, where she championed a renewed focus on cities, sustainable communities, and infrastructure investment. read more

[C]space is the winning competition entry in the ‘AADRLTen’ Pavilion project, an advanced technology concrete structure that will be erected in Bedford Square,London. The AADRL10 exhibition will open on the 22 February 2008 and the Pavilion will officialy open on 13 March 2008 along with the release of the DRL10 Book. The structure is being designed and developed by Alan Dempsey and Alvin Huang with Adams Kara Taylor and members of the DRL.

via> c space pavilion blogspot

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An electron micrograph reveals sharkskin’s secret to speed: tooth-like scales called dermal denticles. Water “races through the microgrooves without tumbling,” says shark researcher George Burgess, reducing friction. “It’s like a fast-moving river current versus the gurgling turbulence of a shallow stream.” The scales also discourage barnacles and algae from glomming on—an inspiration for synthetic coatings that may soon be applied to Navy ship hulls to reduce such biofouling.

What has fins like a whale, skin like a lizard, and eyes like a moth? The future of engineering.

via> National Geographic (April 2008)
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