PINOHUACHO OBSERVATION DECK by RODRIGO SHEWARD via Vulgare
quite an interesting theory I learned about in class today
The term cognitive dissonance is used to describe the feeling of discomfort that results from holding two conflicting beliefs. When there is a discrepancy between beliefs and behaviors, something must change in order to eliminate or reduce the dissonance.
The discrepancy is settled by associating one of the beliefs to be wrong or untrue. Essentially ignoring (to one’s detriment) the objective facts regarding one of the belief structures, in order to settle the mind.
This, which is Jonas De Ro’s contribution to an exhibition on modern ghost towns at the Architecture Museum at Berlin’s Technical University, isn’t the most original in the history of post-apocalyptic eye candies, but it is definitely a refreshing contrast to the dime-a-dozen Ozymandian visions of a future Dubai in ruins. Instead of the desert, a rain forest crept in from out of nowhere.
OUT OF YOUR MIND via Transit City
Is 3D Printing Taking the Artistry out of Architecture?
One technological element that is truly hitting its stride in the architecture sector is that of 3D printing. While CAD and BIM allow architects and designers to draw and create using a computer, 3D printing takes these exact, computer-developed plans and prints them as is.
The absolute exactness of this architectural development medium means speed and precision are high on the list of positive elements associated with 3D printing. There is no level of human error involved and exact specifications can be tested in miniature form.
It is this lack of the human element, however, that provokes the question: could 3D printing take the artistry out of architecture design?
According to Yale School of Architecture dean Rober A. M. Stern, the personal, tactile nature of design development is paramount in his works.
“I personally still make little drawings and I like to use sculptors modeling clay, which I was introduced to by Louis Kahn who used it,” says Stern. “But it goes back in the architectural terms tradition in art terms in general to the tradition of sculpture. And I like to shape things, and mush them around, and play with shapes.”
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De Castelli | Cottage n.1 via The Arthitectural
Google – The first Google image for every word in the dictionary
If a picture says more than a thousand words – and current internet dynamics tend to agree – what would a visual guide to the English vocabulary, contemporary and ‘webresentative’, look like? Ben West and Felix Heyes, two artists and designers from London (UK), found out when they replaced the 21,000 words found in your everyday dictionary with whatever shows up first for each word in Google’s image search. Behold Google – a 1240 page behemoth of JPGs, GIFs and PNGs in alphabetical order.
Another one with her incredibly old camera
Emily and I took a recent urban exploration along the forgotten Vancouver railroad tracks.
Thanks for the photo Emily!