How Crayos are made?

This is beautiful.

fom Mr Rogers' Neighborhood

freedom

What I want was freedom from myself.

new technique, visual studies workshop by Andrew Zago

project 4a, sidewalk chalk

Tara Donovan

Installation artist Tara Donovan�s hallmark is her use of ordinary mass-produced products in repetitive patterns and layering. Donovan has used materials as banal as plastic drinking straws, fishing wire, paper plates, tar paper, Styrofoam cups, wooden toothpicks, tempered glass and steel pins in her fascinating installations, quite often relying on friction and gravity to keep the piece together. What is so interesting about Donovan�s work is that the viewer, accustomed to seeing the materials in a familiar domestic context, has to re-think and re-visualize them as they take shape in new forms. (One cannot help but wonder how many pins could be safely pulled from their cube before creating an altogether new, and untidy, structure.) Artist: Tara Donovan+ acegallery.net -->



Untitled (styrofoam cups)

Untitled (paper plates)

Untitled (pins)

Untitled (pins - detail)

Architectural Grazing Technologies

http://www.agtglazing.com/index.php

http://www.agtglazing.com/media/agt-prod-video.mov

IAC building

http://iacbuilding.com/interactive/content.html

Cool building, Frank Gehry's first office project in New York.

wood pulp & morpho-ecologies

pulp, source of paper

Wood pulp is a dry fibrous material prepared by chemically or mechanically separating the fibers which make up wood.
Pulp can be either fluffy or formed into thick sheets. The latter form is used if the pulp must be transported from the pulp mill to a paper mill. Pulp which is shipped and sold as pulp (not processed into paper in the same facility) is referred to as market pulp. When suspended in water the fibers disperse and become more pliable. This pulp suspension can be laid down on a screen to form a sheet of paper, and this is the primary use for wood pulp. Wood pulp is the most common material used to make paper. The timber resources used to make wood pulp are referred to as pulpwood. Wood pulp comes from softwood trees such as spruce, pine, fir, larch and hemlock, and hardwoods such as eucalyptus, aspen and birch.

morpho-ecologies

Towards Heterogeneous Space in Architectural Design AA Publications

Morpho-Ecologies -- Ecology is the study of the relationship between organisms and their environment. Through their teaching at the AA, Michael Hensel and Achim Menges have shown how this definition also suits the discipline of architecture surprisingly well: one of the central tasks for architects is to provide opportunities for habitation through specific material and energetic interventions in the physical environment. Correlating morphogenesis and ecology, they have developed a new framework for architectural design that is firmly rooted within a biological paradigm, and thus concerned with issues of higher-level functionality and performance capacity. They have named this approach Morpho-Ecology.

The first part of the book introduces the theoretical and methodological framework for their approach; the second part presents 20 research projects undertaken by students in AA Diploma Unit 4. The thir part contains the proceedings of the 'Differentiated Systems in Nature and Design Symposium' held at the AA, with contributions by Mark Burry, Christopher Hight, Wolf Mangelsdorf, Peter Trummer, Julian Vincent, Michael Weinstock.