The Awareness Project (T.A.P) at Tech was carried out through installations by senior undergraduate students at the College of Architecture at Tech under the supervision of their instructor, Ruth Dusseault.
Harris Dimtropoulos heads one of the senior studio (4012) classes this year. As part of their semester project, they have researched and documented water on GaTech’s Campus. Dimitropoulos is pushing exploration of the immediate surroundings and in turn the goal of the class is for the students to create devices that reflect their explorations. The senior year students went as far as observing a model of the campus and carrying out water experiments to see how the campus takes in water. In the experiment, the campus was gradually flooded with water. The pictures below show water accumulation in areas on the site at different stages. Read the rest of this entry »
City of Words, 1977 Vito Acconci
This week’s search for great things to share with you all began with that six degrees of separation. This is that fun phenomenon I’m sure most of us are familiar with that consists of bouncing from one wildly interesting article to another. What makes it so enjoyable is that it wonderfully suggests that all things are linked to one another in someway.
voice heard here | http://www.vimeo.com/graymatters
merica may | ballet dancer 2007
painting by jenny saville
section of a lotus seed pod, variation and repitition
The World’s 18 Strangest Homes /
copyright Popular Mechanics
Silver tea & coffee tower set by Zaha Hadid for Alessi
there’s more cool biz where that came from.
Ryuji Nakamura, "exhibition generation of generativity" 2009
“Born in Nagano Japan, Ryuji designs structures, landscapes, interiors, furniture, and and just about anything else that she can get her hands on. Her body of work is incredible and it highlights her versatility as an artist. Ryuji’s elegant Hechima chair design is made completely of paper. The unique form of this seemingly fragile yet functional seat certainly pushes the boundaries of material and design.”
stated function: model of architecture
amazing.
Ryuji Nakamura, "hechima 4" 2008
Last Friday the Young Architect’s Forum chapter in Atlanta held its annual Emerging Voices show at MODA. Beverages were enjoyed, projects were displayed from three great, young, local firms, winners of the 48 Hour Competition engaging the Breuer library were addressed, the AWPL showed a great collection of furniture… All in all it was a wonderful time to talk shop with peers and enjoy a night out in downtown.
One element of the exhibit, however, stood out, well, like a rotting beam on a pristine, white marble floor… namely BLDGS contribution to the exhibit. Backed by a purple, life-scale forrest graphic featuring a dizzyingly bright horizontal tube light towards one end, the focal point was a gloriously aged, salvaged, heavy-timber beam sitting slightly angled directly on the floor – molding and shedding chunks of itself shamelessly at the feet of Atlanta’s little black dress wearing Friday night design crowd.
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Nooma Sick In Bed Listening To Her Parents Fight, Hamburg , Germany 2006