Visionary Architecture | Neil Spiller

October 5, 2015 by bg-martin

Visionary Architecture – Blueprints of the Modern Imagination by Neil Spiller Thames & Hudson, 2007 For the past six decades, architects have created an astonishing, influential range of design ideas, architectural constructs and urban utopias. Since the Second World War, technology has caught up with our imagination: such practitioners as Daniel Libeskind, Rem Koolhaas, Peter Eisenman and Zaha Hadid, whose works were often considered too experimental or controversial to construct, are now creating real, iconic buildings. The definitive history of […]

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book | Form + Code in Design, Art, and Architecture

October 2, 2015 by bg-martin

The last decade has witnessed a proliferation of artists whose primary medium is software. Algorithmic processes, harnessed through the medium of computer code, allow artists to generate increasingly complex visual forms that they otherwise might not have been able to imagine, let alone delineate. The newest volume in the Design Brief series Form+Code in Design, Art, and Architecture is a non-technical introduction to the history, theory, and practice of software in the arts.

Categories: Architecture, Art, books, digital • Tags: Architecture, art, artficial intelligence, artificial life, book, Casey Reas, Chandler McWilliams, code, data mapping, design, digital fabrication, form, gaming, graphic design, industrial design, interactive media, photography, typography, visual cinema, visualizations

#book review // Architectural Inventions: Visionary Drawings

April 15, 2015 by bg-martin

Architectural Inventions, a book born out of the drawingbuilding.org online archive, presents a stunning visual study of speculative structures that exist only on paper. The work is provided by architects, designers, and artists of renown -as well as emerging talents from all over the world…

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Utopia Forever | Robert Klaten

October 7, 2012 by bg-martin

A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing.

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cut-out \ The Book of Space by Johan Hybschmann

October 2, 2012 by bg-martin

The Book of Space by Johan Hybschmann “The inspiration came directly from the single shot film sequence in Sokurov’s Russian Ark, where the camera is taken through the timeless spaces of the Winter Palace, jumping decades from one room to another. The distortion of time is, of course, interesting in terms of the timelessness of the spaces – but the interest of the project lies in the way that the camera never looks back. Even though the viewer never sees the […]

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