Year 3: Remembering the Present
I went to see Richard Mosse’s Incoming show at the Barbican Curve Gallery yesterday. It’s incredibly powerful and moving, but also quite haunting to see how he captures the ongoing migrant crisis through film and images that both use military-grade cameras and a heat-sensitive film that gives everything from people, to built structures, to landscape…
The ‘Gallery of Lost Art’ is a collection of art that no longer exists or decays etc. It can be found here with videos and texts produced by the Tate and Channel4.: http://galleryoflostart.com/ There are many of the artist and architects that have been mentioned in the tutorials such as Racheal Whiteread and Lucian Frued….
Saw this recently and thought it was a nice reference for everyone – Noemie Goudal’s installations often work at the threshold between the man-made and the natural. https://www.ignant.com/2016/01/04/noemie-goudals-natural-interventions/ http://noemiegoudal.com/category/works/
Here are some examples of time-based drawings as each of you prepare your versions specific to your ongoing investigations and proposals for Dungeness. These are some historic examples we showed last year: http://ds7.osa.digital/index.php/2015/09/23/representing-time-some-historical-examples/ and some contemporary examples: http://ds7.osa.digital/index.php/2015/09/25/representing-time-some-contemporary-examples/ (you can click on them to view them at a larger scale. These are some examples from student projects: And…
For those of you with a TV License: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b08650s6/inside-chernobyls-mega-tomb?suggid=b08650s6
A great lecture for all of you to watch: http://www.aaschool.ac.uk/VIDEO/lecture.php?ID=2394 Watch mainly from 21;35 onwards – its a small project but the level of thought that has gone into how to work with an existing building, the choice of materials, the equal value given to facts and fictions related to the site and how this has…
For all those interested in ruination, this looks great! http://www.victoria-miro.com/exhibitions/499/ “The work offers poignant reflection on themes of entropy and decay. It is, in some ways, emblematic of a wider collapsing – of ideals or even spirit. Running contrary to such thoughts, however, is the undeniable aesthetic pleasure we find in ruins – their compelling,…
I would like to invite you all to my lecture tomorrow on the topic of shrinking cities. I will be discussing a phenomenon that is affecting once thriving cities in the developed world as a result of globalization and shift to the service economy, with focus on Leipzig. Venue: AB115a Time: 12.10-12.50 Mince pies and apple juice will…
In my research into Superstudio I came accross this project by a Bartlett graduate. It’s called “Continuous Monument”. It might be useful to a few people, so might be worth checking out. There are some interesting graphics and concepts Hope someone finds it usefulhttps://emilyeung.wordpress.com/the-continuous-monument-i/
Just learnt about this phenomenon on certain rare books (usually with gold tipped pages) that have secret paintings only visible when angling the pages: https://www.facebook.com/thisisinsiderart/videos/456916924478877/ – haunting of a painting within a book? Could be an interesting portfolio effect.
‘Active Denial System’, directed energy weapon developed by the U.S. military On Tuesday during Germaine’s tutorial we talked about the possibility of using energy as a material, and power as a protective perimeter. This is the precedent I mentioned, military use of directed energy to create and reinforce boundaries (i.e. borders) and also as…
Nicolae Grigorescu, Rucar Fireplace The House – architectonic elements IT: Since we have arrived at the topic of the vernacular house, what were they traditionally made of? MP: Once the site was chosen, the area would be cleared and the grounds would be raised and covered in clay, which was then set on…
*** The interview presented for this workshop comes as a reflection on the extensive body of research on the topic of dwelling and habitation, authored by ethnographer and museum curator Maria Lobonţ-Puşcaş. Conducted in the North-West of Transylvania, a place of threshold par excellence, it analyses the material and spiritual creation of Romanian rustic architecture,…
Beach Geology discussing the formation of the shingle spit at Dungeness dungenss_beach_geology
I bought this book at the Pilot Inn: “2016 Tide Tables, Predicted High and Low Water at Dungeness”. Might be of interest to anyone looking at tidal patterns. https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6r1WNWujoMic0hKSnNRMnQ4clU Also check out the UK Hydrographic Office website.
This is the sci-fi film that was shot entirely by drone that I watched in the BFI last weekend as part of London Film Festival – its a nice example of how your scans, footage and measuring of the site can be packaged together to form a narrative about your project – I can ask…
Charles sent me this video a few weeks ago and its interesting in the technical principles that it demonstrates as well as how ARUP used 3d scanning to figure out a structural solution for this artwork: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_v0CO7p7eT4&feature=youtu.be Could be useful for Sam’s project in terms of stacking objects on top of one another to form a totem/ monument? This…
See link to planning and detailed site assessment on the Dungeness Borrow Pit -> Planning Application
Since a few people mentioned Japanese Joinery as something they might be interested in exploring for technology – here are some great explanatory gifs: http://www.archdaily.com/796918/these-mesmerizing-gifs-illustrate-the-art-of-traditional-japanese-wood-joinery
Here are a few references for everyone based on conversations we had last Tuesday – some of them will be relevant for more than just the person for whom they are mentioned – so have a look through them all and see what could help your project specifically. Lewis: Following on from our discussion on…
The presentation from last week is here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6r1WNWujoMiVzZGa05rYWRjVE0/view?usp=sharing I have added on some resource links and given my comments/notes to Manijeh and Danielle, who’ll send them on. Look forward to seeing you all at Dungeness and please email/blog any specific queries you have in the meantime.
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“What exists is not necessarily all that might be.” Horror in Architecture (p.g. 23) Tutors: Manijeh Verghese, Danielle Hewitt Technology Tutor: Ed Blake Architecture is haunted – haunted by inhabitants, activities, incidents, programmes, and materials – the past given shape in the present. But architecture is also a haunting – it exists as a ghost…