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ZAPP Urbanism Issue 25 – Storm – Fall 2011
New Zapp Urbanism Issue is out! Enjoy.
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Egg City: Chapter 418 – The Family Dog As Context
From May 28th through June 26th Architecture For Art (A for A) Will be featuring work by architect/artist Andrew MacNair along with work by painters Guy Nouri and Liane Torre. Opening party is from 5pm – 7pm, May 28th. A … Continue reading
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What A 100 Year-Old Race To The South Pole Teaches Us About Design
Adam Erlebacher Design informs most of what we come in contact with whether it is architecture, mobile devices, cars, software and web services, or a school’s curriculum. Sentences are designed, edited down so they convey meaning with efficient elegance. “Good” design delights … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Erlebacher, Antarctica, Roald Amundsen, Robert Falcon Scott, Ross Ice Shelf, South Pole
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Zero To Z
Peter Collins CHANGING IDEALS IN MODERN ARCHITECTURE: The Mechanical Analogy, Beginning of Chapter Of the various analogies used in the nineteenth century to clarify the principles of a new architecture, probably the only one to equal in importance the biological analogy has been the … Continue reading
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Tagged Analogy, Architecture, Henri Milne-Edwards, Peter Collins, Physics
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Split Surface: Highline 23
Neil Denari + Andrew MacNair Project Notes from Office of Neil Denari Architect Developed by Alf Naman and currently in construction, HL23 is a 14 floor condominium tower that responds to a unique and challenging site directly adjacent to the High … Continue reading
Miami SeaplaneTerminal on Biscayne Bay
Jacob Brillhart The Miami Sea Plane Terminal, a stilted buoy, is tethered to Miami’s memory of building and landscape in Biscayne Bay. Looking back, the Stilted Buoy is inspired by the resilience of Stiltsville and pays homage to Jeanne Claude … Continue reading
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Tagged Biscayne Bay, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Jacob Brillhart, Miami, Stiltsville, Transportation
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What is Art and What is Beauty?
Maciej Rocki Philosophy of art traditionally deals with aesthetics asking two questions: what is art and what is beauty? These two questions are typical of western philosophy. Let’s move away from western philosophy and go east. The first Sanskrit literature … Continue reading
Open School
Tommy Manuel Lot-Ek’s latest project, the Open School for the Anyang Public Art Project 2010 (APAP), is tethered to the ground rather than being built on it. This caution-yellow chevron pavilion lunges out over the southern bank of the Anyang River … Continue reading
Night Inflation: Balloons of Mythic Characters
Johanna Post Notes on Seeing Inflation – the Night before the Thanksgiving Parade by Macy’s Department Store on Central Park West around the side streets of the American Museum of Natural History, November 24, 2010. The parade is a … Continue reading
Urban Mirror Squint
Andrew MacNair The window looks west out onto the sidewalk along the avenue. The avenue runs north to south. The sidewalk is on the west side of the avenue. The window is in a small café on street level. The … Continue reading
Resistance To
Adam Wiseman The term resistance is most often used to refer to a political or personal act. In this case, however, it is more akin to electrical resistance; the degree of physical opposition a material provides against flowing current. Scientifically, this can … Continue reading
Binocular House
Michael Bell The Binocular House embodies a set of attempts to measure flatness against a precipice of deep space by way of removing the middle ground. The layering manifests a tension between the foreground and the implications of a distant background; … Continue reading
Spatial Engagement’s Chronotope in Electronic Art and the Public Sphere
Francisco J. Ricardo The received notion of the public sphere in fact melds an array of narrative and structural elements into a domain of expressive possibility whose center of attention serves both aesthetic and intersubjective concerns. This commingling entails … Continue reading
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Tagged Arts, Francisco J. Ricardo, Jürgen Habermas, MySpace, Orkuveita Reykjavíkur, Second Life, Virtual reality
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Weiguan Netizens
Andrew MacNair A fury has been unleashed in all directions from a curious kind of political ricochet around the Japanese Pavilion at Expo 2010 in Shanghai. It seems that Cheng Jianping, a.k.a. online as Wang Yi, has been sent … Continue reading
Long Shadow Crosses The Moon Over The City Last Night
Andrew MacNair How long can long shadows be? The longest shadow I know is the shadow of the moon cast by the sun in parallax as it moves behind on a full Lunar Eclipse. In the city, some long shadows … Continue reading
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