NADAAA took home two awards last night! The Bamiyan Cultural Centre received a Hobson Award for unbuilt architecture and the Rock Creek House received a citation for Excellence in Craft. More info on the winning projects to follow!
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This Friday at 6:30 in Cooper’s Great Hall: Nicholas Boyarsky, Robin Middleton, Joan Ockman, Bernard Tschumi, Anthony Vidler, Michael Webb, and Dean Nader Tehrani on “Drawing Ambience”
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The term “data visualization” supposes that data is not already visible but must be made so; for this reason, the mechanisms of representation, the means of communication, and the protocols of that transmission become instrumental in their depictions. It is no secret that with information comes bias, and ideological taint, and to that end, each mode of visualization may cast a shadow of some persuasion. Historically, we have witnessed the vicissitudes of the emergence of the architect in relation to the instruments of the discipline: especially in the arena of measure and projection. At the same time, the descriptions they have made possible are part of a process of abstraction, distortion, and tinting, as made visible through the orthogonal, oblique or conical projections, each in their own way giving weight to varied visions.
It is a rare case where these media come into confluence, as their individual agencies give innate emphasis to certain tropes that reinforce their strengths: from the monocular conical projections of Masaccio to the worm’s eye bias of the Choisy oblique projections, all manifest a revelation that is routed through the salient quality of a particular means of representation. It is maybe only the cinematic that captures the dynamic connection between these media, sometimes in the most devious of means. The dolly shots of Spike Lee and their control of the camera lens is one example where the measures of constraint are methodically shifted to radical results, but only potent through an animate format.
Kinetic Measures undertakes such an analysis of the Storefront for Art and Architecture. It begins by orthogonally orienting the Storefront, axially aligning its façade parallel to the picture plane as a descriptive means of projecting the dimensional criteria of the elevation and the traces of structural and mechanical motive. Using transitions within the limits of planar projection to approximate the conditions of conical perspective, different stages of the animated drawing enable different alignments between projection and architecture. The kinetic medium of animation is a practice used to produce a biased way of seeing—from the analytical to the experiential. Agency in this case, derived through specific alignments between medium and subject, allows for a temporal and deliberate playing of projection drawing, an instrument for giving value to architecture and the city through measure.
Read the New York Times Review here.
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Join NADAAA, Matter Design, and IK Studio for an open discussion on the Bigger than a Breadbox installations at the BSA Space tonight at 6:00pm. The event is free, but please register here.
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‘Measure’ is an exhibition of 30 drawings by 30 international architects presenting 30 edifices of thought.
The pleasure and pressure to measure and be measured has become increasingly present. Access to growing data sets and new sensing technologies is widespread, and the role of public and private domains in terms of information and space are being redefined. These contemporary conditions invite us to reflect on our ideologies and values, and the drawing is a manifestation of that which we are able to (and desire to) count, measure, and draw.
Storefront’s third iteration of the drawing show seeks to find measures, resist measurement, and measure the immeasurable by presenting from the real to the fictional and from the functional to the symbolic. Measure positions the medium and the act of drawing as a process by which we seek coherence in data and representation, and shows that it is the making of facts that is the basis for the production of futurity beyond existing norms.
other exhibitors include:
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As part of The City of Melbourne’s Nite Art 2015, Liquid Architecture will be hosting ‘This Building Absorbs People’ a collection of performance art pieces to be scattered throughout the Melbourne School of Design.
The opening event is July 23rd from 6pm-10pm and is FREE and open to the public
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Thanks to all who came out last night to the BSA Space for Bigger than a Breadbox / Smaller than a Building and NADAAA’s Catenary Compression Installation!
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Bigger than a Breadbox / Smaller than a Building is opening tonight at the BSA Space on Congress Street. Come join us at 6pm for the opening reception and see our installation Catenary Compression.
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Video from the recent Brown University and RISD joint symposium Intersections in Pedagogy.
Stan Allen speaks on Architecture and the Humanities and Nader discusses Rethinking Pedagogical Spaces:
Also, see Bernard Tschumi’s lecture from the night before here.
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Today was the first of six BSA Emerging Professionals lunches to be hosted at NADAAA over the next few months. The sessions will be led by either Nader or Katie along with another one of our design professionals. Today Harry joined Nader to discuss office structure, teamwork and process as well as the differences between academic and professional work.
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