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Tagging Beiruti’s sweetest memories

September 3, 2007 at 3:10 pm · Filed under Activism, Beirut, video

One of the sub-workshop we did at the Public Space Workshop at Studio Beirut, last week. We categorized the memories into 5 groups: Encounters, Romance, Childhood, Heroism and Escape. The first movie by me (Encounters and Heroism) the second by Olivier (Romance). Enjoy.

Game/Toy Design by Will Wright: Spore

August 22, 2007 at 3:25 pm · Filed under game, video, reblog

“Will Wright demos his newest game, Spore, which promises to dazzle users even more than his previous masterpieces. Here Wright encourages users to create not households, as in The Sims, or cities, as in SimCity, but the entire universe, from single-celled life forms to galactic physics. “

YouTube: Will Wright: Toys that make worlds
TED
Spore

Moore’s Law Meets Sustainability

August 12, 2007 at 10:35 pm · Filed under video, Urbanism

A thought provoking proposal about where we could be heading with sustainable building and urbanisation. The scenario presented is not that far-out i think, although the architectural proposals in the video are, but it is a thought experiment, so why not.

Catastrophic Space

July 21, 2007 at 1:25 am · Filed under Beirut

Catastrophic Space, Partizan Publik produced an online audio tour. Click here and join Beirut’s artist and architect Tony Chakar’s personal walking through the city and listen to an inspiring analysis of time and place as the result of catastrophe.

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articles published and unpublished

- 2008 - How Sim City Changed the Game of Planning - Volume #16Article on the ideas behind the various incarnations of Sim City, and the influence of the game on the next generation of architects and planners that grew up playing this game.
- 2007 - Internet leest voor uit eigen werk (interview met Jonathan Harris)In de helder verlichte erker van Lust, waar Paulus Potter ooit zijn beroemde stier schilderde in 1647, praten wij met Jonathan Harris (1979), Jonthan’s fascinatie is het menselijke gezicht en de poëtische kracht van het Internet ontsluiten.
- 2007 - Around the table: Cultural Economist / Arjo Klamer - Volume #14Interview with Arjo Klamer together with Arjen Oosterman for the Volume issue on 'Unsolicited Architecture'
- 2007 - Around the table: Building Manager / Dik Smits - Volume #14Interview with Dik Smits for the Volume issue on 'Unsolicited Architecture'
- 2007 - Around the table: Building Expert / Hugo Priemus - Volume #14interview with Hugo Priemus for the Volume issue on 'Unsolicited Architecture'
- 2007 - Around the table: Architect / Matthijs Bouw - Volume #14Interview with Mathijs Bouw (One Architecture) together with Arjen Oosterman for the Volume issue on 'Unsolicited Architecture'
- 2006 - Revising PracticeA short essay addressing the problematic relation between architectural theory and practice as discussed in the discourse around Projective or Post-Critical practice. The essay does this through comparing the writings of Allen with Somol and Whiting.
- 2006 - Exploding Practice - Volume #7The definition of the field of architecture is determined by a negotiation of the ‘old’ inside and the new and ever changing outside. Where the inside is building a golden cage around her discipline to preserve a certain ground to keep the violence of big
- 2006 - Exploding Practice (lecture, easa006 - Budapest)What would an architecure practice look like if its liberated from building? What if architecture would expand its boundries and approach the whole world as its working terrain? What if architecture would not wait anymore for clients...
- 2004 - Na kritiek komt... - Pantheon 2Dit artikel is een korte inleiding zijn op een ambitieus project van Stylos dat een onderzoek instelt naar de meest recente ontwikkelingen in de architectuurtheorie.
- 2004 - Architect: tussen droom en daad (Bert van Meggelen, Kees van der Hoeven, Noud de Vreeze, Harm Tilman, Olof van der Wal, Fons Verheijen)verslag van Talkshow #1 in het kader van Powerplay (2004), het 22ste Lustrum van Stylos, Faculteit Bouwkunde TU Delft.
- 2004 - Ademen in een utopisch vacuüm of verdrinken in een realiteit zonder kritiek. (Ole Bouman, Winka Dubbeldam, Winy Maas, Hilde Heynen)Verslag van conferentie in het kader van Powerplay(2004), het 22ste Lustrum van Stylos, Faculteit Bouwkunde TU Delft.
- 2003 - 'Criticus, ken uw taak!' - Pantheon 5Critici, de hogepriesters der architectuur treden niet meer buiten hun kerk. De architectuur gaat in de recente geschiedenis ‘kritiekloos’ voorwaarts. Immer blijven dezelfde klanken klinken vanuit klooster der moraalridders, ...

my portfolio (since 2006)

prss release [publishing]

In spring 2008, together with Marten Dashorst I started prss release, a so-called 'paper blog aggregator'. The main premise of this project is "We want to disclose all the goodies that are posted in the blogosphere to an audience that doesn't keep track of blogs on a daily basis, an audience that hates reading more than a few sentences from their computer screens."

The Lost Room [website]

Website I designed and developed for The Lost Room workshop which was held summer 2007 in Beirut in the context of the 'Public Space Summer Workshop' of Studio Beirut. The workshop was organized and developed by Partizan Publik

Archis.org [website]

The new Archis website is project were I worked on 6 months or so, and still is an ongoing project. In the course of time new features will be developed released. This work (developing the editorial framework) I did in close collaboration with Resource Studio (design and scripting) and of course Archis. The Archis site is designed in such a way that it can grow and expand with in various ways with additions like satellite websites, blogs, etc. This is possible through the WordPress MU platform where it is built upon.

Difüzyon - Istanbul [events]

In Fall 2006, together with some students of Taşkışla, the Architecture Faculty of ITU (Istanbul Technical University) we founded Difüzyon (diffusion). A platform for designer in Istanbul.
The first events we organized was dörtyüzsaniye (fourhundredseconds, an event where 10 designers, each presenting their projects in 6 minutes and 40 seconds (400 sec). The presentation has been derived from the Pecha Kucha format. Every edition the event is held in another venue. After that also Mimarlık Savaşları (Architecture Battles), an event where 4 groups of architecture students are making projects on a certain theme in 45 minutes. Creation, presentation and jurry stages, alltogether finished in 60 minutes.

ISIKLAL RADIO [film]

Short film I made about a radio that travels around in Istanbul. The radio receives only one street that condenses the sounds of Istanbul. The dial tunes in to various locations and there associated sounds along this street which is Istiklal Cadesi.

RIVERSIDE DREAMS [architecture]

Architecural design proposal (Center for Contemporary Urban Culture), Kagithane, Istanbul. Riverside Dreams Project in the framework of European Capital of Culture 2010 , at the Istanbul Technical University, Fall 2006.

LED attack workshop - Budapest, August 2006 [workshop]

EASA 2006 in Budapest provided Roelant ten Kate and me the opportunity to test our potential as workshop tutors. Our workshop was called 'LED attack'. We invited our participants to think about ways how we could use LED+3V battery in diverse ways to create events and unexpected moments in the city of Budapest.

TOPOGRAPHIE DES TERRORS [architecture]

Architectural design proposal (Documentation Center) near Potsdammerplatz,Berlin. Studio Border Conditions, TU Delft, Spring 2006.

PROJECTIVE LANDSCAPE - A conference on projective practice, March 2006 [event]

The Projective Landscape Stylos Conference wanted to research and explore the similarities between a few -at first sight- seemingly diverse developments within the architecture debate taking place in Europe and the United States. These developments appeared to offer a fruitful strategy for architecture in the 21st century. Because this specific debate was (still is) very scattered, the conference aimed to map and clarify these different developments and hoped to come to a clearer formulation of what was being referred to as projective practice. By which we meant an architecture that is engaged with the reality of the society in which it is embedded, but focuses on its own discipline instead of looking for legitimatization of its practice in just societal criticism or in disciplines outside itself like sociology and philosophy.

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David Greene: The Big Nothing

by (author unknown) on Wed, 19 Nov 2008,

Or: An Exit Strategy for Architecture; Or: Another Kind of Archigram This essay was first published in the excellent catalogue titled "L.A.W.U.N Project 19: The Disreputable Projects of David Greene". […]

ads in filmpjes

by Rolf on Tue, 18 Nov 2008,

Met deze software kan je dus een logo toevoegen aan een youtube filmpje, inclusief maskering etc. Dus nu hoef je niet eens meer zelf een viral te maken, maar je plaatst gewoon je logo in een bestaand. […]

[from thinkoutput] Bucky lives! Why Fuller matters more today than ever before | Critique | Architectural Record

by thinkoutput on Tue, 18 Nov 2008,

Bookmark this on Delicious - Saved by thinkoutput to Fuller exhibition - More about this bookmark

From The Factory to the Allotment: Tony Wilson, Urbanist

by (author unknown) on Sun, 16 Nov 2008,

I've been spending an inordinate amount of time in Lancashire allotments on a research trip sponsored by Livesey/Wilson associates - the regeneration consultants set up by the late Tony Wilson and hi. […]

Bad Times: What’s Happening!!

by Brendan on Sun, 16 Nov 2008,

Since arriving in Beijing, I’ve found myself in a lot of discussions about the international financial crisis. For China, the timing couldn’t be worse - this mess lands at their feet just as they. […]

'Post-Rave Urban Growth Coalition'

by owen hatherley on Wed, 12 Nov 2008,

Very interesting comment on the Manchester post below from Justin O'Connor, which I'm posting up here so it doesn't disappear into the oblivion of comments on old blog posts (as the internet tends to. […]

The 9 Business Models of the Web

by Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten on Tue, 11 Nov 2008,

A few days ago I was watching a presentation in which 50 companies were asked about their online business model. They had been given only 5 options to choose from. As you can see in the graph on the r. […]

Land and re-localisation

by John Thackara on Tue, 11 Nov 2008,

With allotment waiting lists in the UK massively over-subscribed, and people right across the country keen to grow their own fruit and vegetables, a new project called Landshare aims to make British. […]

Webapp Death Match: Google vs. Apple

by Oliver Reichenstein on Mon, 10 Nov 2008,

With websites turning more and more into web applications, functionally as well as aesthetically, it’d be interesting to look at what makes a Web app work in terms of skinning. We start off by compa. […]

Habitus 04: N.O.L.A.

by Brendan on Mon, 10 Nov 2008,

A few months ago I mentioned a trip I made with my friend Josh to the great city of New Orleans. He was putting the finishing touches on the fourth issue of his magazine Habitus and I was tagging alo. […]

Paper 3D Printer: Low Cost 3D Architectural Models

by Smithee on Sun, 9 Nov 2008,

The great promise of 3D printing for architecture and city design has begun to fade recently, mainly due to the price of the print media. Rather than becoming the ultimate tool for decision making in. […]

Who killed the blogosphere?

by (author unknown) on Fri, 7 Nov 2008,

Blogging seems to have entered its midlife crisis, with much existential gnashing-of-teeth about the state and fate of a literary form that once seemed new and fresh and now seems familiar and tired.. […]

Economies of Architectural Thought

by dlgissen on Thu, 6 Nov 2008,

Probably all of us who work in the architectural HTC area have heard stories about how architectural thought–particularly architectural theory–increases in times of economic hardship. When the. […]

Unplugged - or unhinged?

by John Thackara on Wed, 29 Oct 2008,

I'm reading reading a moving and important book by Sharon Astyk called "Depletion and Abundance: Life On The New Home Front". Uniquely among recent books on life after the Peaks - energy, protein, bi. […]

Stack City

by Alexander Trevi on Tue, 28 Oct 2008,

(Lovely new feature on Architect: Behrang Behin's Stack City. “Starting with an adaptation of Jorg Schlaich’s solar chimney power generators, Behin's project employs the stack effect to moderate. […]

Once a joke, now for real: Google heading for space

by Ernst-Jan Pfauth on Tue, 28 Oct 2008,

Google’s best April Fool’s joke of the year definitely was their Mars mission with Richard Branson, called Virgle. Back then, we laughed about Google’s space plans, but now - in rough financial. […]

Did You Know Brainstorming Is 70 Years Old?

by Victor on Tue, 28 Oct 2008,

That’s right, Alex Osborn started popularizing brainstorming in the late 1930’s. It’s a classic tool I still use, but I have to wonder if there’s something better. Brainstorming is simple, and. […]

Johnny Lee, YouTube, and the future of prototyping

by (author unknown) on Mon, 27 Oct 2008,

Is Prototyping finally entering the pop-cultural lexicon? Where it was once an opaque techno-fabulous term used by Q in James Bond flicks, or forming the dubious core of a Star Trek episode, we've no. […]

Oh yeah, the Internet is changing our brains!

by Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten on Mon, 27 Oct 2008,

Just in from Reuters! “The Internet is not just changing the way people live but altering the way our brains work”! Apparently this is an evolutionary change which will put the tech-savvy (That i. […]

Re:loading #01 - Sun, Food and a Guru

by Admin on Thu, 23 Oct 2008,

Author: Volume [1] Here Comes The Sun (documentary/VPRO) [2] Food as A National Security Issue (radio show/NPR) [3] The Future of Food (magazine/Wired) [4] Green Guru Gone Wrong: William McDonough (ar. […]

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Let's Go Get It!

Thu, 20 Nov 2008,

The Urban Reinventors

Thu, 20 Nov 2008,

The End of Wall Street's Boom - National Business News - Print - Portfolio.com

Tue, 18 Nov 2008,

Weblogsky » Blog Archive » Gary Chapman at Texas Community Media Unworkshop: Obama’s Open Government Initiatives

Sun, 16 Nov 2008,

Flickr: holgerlippmann's Photostream

Fri, 14 Nov 2008,

Kunstformen der Natur - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Fri, 14 Nov 2008,

EUROPE BY DESIGNERS | CALL FOR ENTRIES! |

Thu, 13 Nov 2008,

twemes.com

Thu, 13 Nov 2008,

The Singular Objects of Architecture | Coulter | Canadian Journal of Communication

Wed, 12 Nov 2008,

y Jean Baudrillard & Jean Nouvel.Translated by Robert Bononno.Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2002. 160 pp. ISBN 0816639124.Authors Jean Baudrillard and Jean Nouvel share the thesis that "We're not heading for disaster, we're already in the midst of total disaster." This provocation sets the tone for a book that, despite its title, contains abundant insights about contemporary communication, especially for scholars who have tended to ignore architecture. The two extended interviews that comprise the book illustrate the vital communicative function of architecture as we pass into cybernetic societies in which "everything is communication."

Landshare - What is Landshare

Tue, 11 Nov 2008,

MARATHON

Mon, 10 Nov 2008,

Habitus - Home

Mon, 10 Nov 2008,

bifurcaciones - revista de estudios culturales urbanos - número 07, julio.08

Mon, 10 Nov 2008,

This Is Tomorrow? Urban Utopias – Dystopias – Heterotopias

Sun, 9 Nov 2008,

Bravo Istanbul

Wed, 5 Nov 2008,

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Thu, 20 Nov 2008,

boombench on Vimeo (via Vimeo)

Thu, 20 Nov 2008,

Bathtub II on Vimeo (via Vimeo)

Thu, 20 Nov 2008,

New York Times Special Edition Video News Release - Nov. 12, 2008 on Vimeo (via Vimeo)

Wed, 19 Nov 2008,

Making of the Computer Graphics for Star Wars (Episode IV) (via evltube)

Wed, 19 Nov 2008,

via swissmiss.typepad.com

Wed, 19 Nov 2008,

Calculated Movements by Larry Cuba (1985)

In the 1970s the computer graphics for the first Star Wars film (1977) was created by Larry Cuba at the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) (at the time known as the Circle Graphics Habitat) at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Calculated Movements is a sample of Cuba’s later work.

Calculated Movements (via evltube)

Tue, 18 Nov 2008,

Co-curators Dana Miller and K. Michael Hays discuss their summer 2008 exhibition, Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe, at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. They talk about the organization of the show, Fuller’s “geo-logical” approach to design, and his influence on contemporary architecture.

Bucky lives! Why Fuller matters more today than ever before | Critique | Architectural Record

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