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Nov 30, 20080

William Katavolos interview w/ Deborah Gans

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Global Warming Ready image by Diesel

Professor W. Katavolos has been part of the Architecture School at Pratt Institute since the sixties. He is co-director of the Center for Experimental Structures. Over the years liquid architecture has been developed there. His early furniture is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of art and the Louvre.

As a consulting designer he created the Time-Life and Owens Corning partition systems, the suspension ring system for the Moscow Fair, the Agricultural and Solar Pavilions for Salonika. His manifesto, Organics, published in Holland in 1961 became the basis for chemical architecture. His theory of the fundamental structure of nature is being prepared for publication. He lives with his wife, Terenia in Key West and New York.

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Nov 15, 20080

RPI + SOM = CASE

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The interest between academia and professional practice continues with the creation of CASE, a joint research effort between Rensselaer Polytechnic and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. A group of researchers reside at the SOM Wall Street address and work together with architects and engineers to reshape the profession and industry. Having witnessed its development and surge to push innovation in technology, I do believe we will see interesting work coming out of this collaboration. read more

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Nov 10, 20080

phenomenological flex cycles

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CIGNA headquarters x Velux 08′ midterm

The skylight apertures are responsive to the geometries of the sun’s seasonal and daily cycles in a way that produces internal spaces that fluctuate in time. Architecture itself, does not physically move in space, however the bit of it reliant on light for the definition of its form may undergo phenomenological change both physically and performatively as a function of light. by Jerome Hord & Athony Morin read more

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Nov 8, 20080

Situated Technologies Pamphlets 3: Situated Advocacy

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A special double issue featuring:
+ Community Wireless Networks as Situated Advocacy, by Laura Forlano and Dharma Dailey
+ Suspicious Images, Latent Interfaces, by Benjamin Bratton and Natalie Jeremijenko read more

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Oct 24, 20080

Toyo Ito / Frederick Kiesler Prize

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This year’s Frederick Kiesler Prize for Architecture and the Arts goes to the Japanese Architect Toyo Ito. Andreas Mailath-Pokorny, Vienna’s City Councillor for Culture and Science, presents the award on 16th October, 2008, at 11 a.m, at the Senate Chamber of the City Hall Vienna. read more

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