Parasitic Architecture
Architecture academia posted some ideas about parasitical architecture and I would really like to continue the dialogue and focus on some artistic parasitic projects. A parasite is an organism that grows, […]
Monthly Archives: March 2012
Stairs that lead to nowhere
Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Tower with Bridges, from Prison Caprices. 1760-61. Etching, 55.2 x 41.6 cm. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York I have always been fascinated with Piranesi’s Tower […]
Facade Mashup
The mashup is a term that is often refered to music or video where a file combines and modifies existing works to create a new work that emulates the original work. […]
Cedric Price & the Fun Palace
’Now! Now!’ cried the Queen. ‘Faster! Faster!’ … Alice looked round her in great surprise. ‘Why, I do believe we’ve been under this tree the whole time! Everything’s just as […]
The Exposed City
I am reading The Exposed City Mapping the Urban Invisibles by Nadia Amoroso. Nadia Amoroso specialises in visual representation by using mapping strategies and reorganizes information and patterns found in architecture and […]
Sarah Sze
After a seven days’ march through woodland, the traveller directed towards Baucis cannot see the city and yet he has arrived. The slender stilts that rise from the ground at a great […]
Pedestrian Bridges
I could tell you how many steps make up the streets rising like stairways, and the degree of the arcades’ curves, and what kind of zinc scales cover the roofs; […]
Constant Nieuwenhuys’s New Babylon
I have been influenced by the Dutch artist and architect Constant Nieuwenhuys, whose 18-year architectural project entitled New Babylon was first conceived under the auspices of the Situationist theory of […]
Yellow pipes
Have you noticed these yellow pipes? We encounter pipes like this in our daily lives but because of their banality, they are usually overlooked. These are the city’s gas pipes […]
