“if today was not a crooked highway.
if tonight was not a crooked trail
if tomorrow wasn’t such a long time
then lonesome would mean nothing to you at all.”
sorry.
sometimes i just need to quote bob dylan.
“if today was not a crooked highway.
if tonight was not a crooked trail
if tomorrow wasn’t such a long time
then lonesome would mean nothing to you at all.”
sorry.
sometimes i just need to quote bob dylan.
More info on the PDC happening…
CA-COPH-O-NY SCI-ARC, STUDENTS WORKS, Tuesday 26th of march, at the WEST WEEK in the Pacific Design Center, suite b377 (third floor, west-ish side of the blue building), at 7pm, Panel Discussion and Opening Party.
The general Opening Party is at 6pm.
For more info on Westweek and directions to the big blue whale (really, how could you miss it?) look here.
At Sci-Arc this weekend: Beyond Sprawl: New Strategies, Prototypes and Scenarios for Multi-unit Housing
A “One-day conference supported by the NEA Design Arts Program, on issues of land use, density, and building technology, including presentations by Michael Bell, Mark Mack, Marcelo Spina, Architect, Faculty member, SCI-Arc; and Albert Pope of new architectural prototypes for medium- and high-density multi-unit urban housing. Keynote speaker Thom Mayne; other participants Jane Blumenfeld, Angie Brooks-Scarpa, Dana Cuff, Joan Ling, Sally Richman, Roger Sherman, Robert Somol.”
Happening all day Saturday, see Sci-Arc web page for more details.
Also Sci-Arc related and coming up is a show of student work at the Pacifc Design Center (you know, the big blue whale..) in West Hollywood. The show is called Cacophony (i think) and opens tuesday (i think). During the week there will be discussion forums with Sci-Arc faculty and others.. I will post a link to more info when i find one. Of course, Rise will have work up in the show.
Coming up later this evening, a group show featuring Rise affiliate Amy Robinson opens at Gallery 825 at 825 La Cienega Blvd. 7:00pm most likely. Check it out!
At Sci-Arc this weekend: Beyond Sprawl: New Strategies, Prototypes and Scenarios for Multi-unit Housing
A “One-day conference supported by the NEA Design Arts Program, on issues of land use, density, and building technology, including presentations by Michael Bell, Mark Mack, Marcelo Spina, Architect, Faculty member, SCI-Arc; and Albert Pope of new architectural prototypes for medium- and high-density multi-unit urban housing. Keynote speaker Thom Mayne; other participants Jane Blumenfeld, Angie Brooks-Scarpa, Dana Cuff, Joan Ling, Sally Richman, Roger Sherman, Robert Somol.”
Happening all day Saturday, see Sci-Arc web page for more details.
Also Sci-Arc related and coming up is a show of student work at the Pacifc Design Center (you know, the big blue whale..) in West Hollywood. The show is called Cacophony (i think) and opens tuesday (i think). During the week there will be discussion forums with Sci-Arc faculty and others.. I will post a link to more info when i find one. Of course, Rise will have work up in the show.
Coming up later this evening, a group show featuring Rise affiliate Amy Robinson opens at Gallery 825 at 825 La Cienega Blvd. 7:00pm most likely. Check it out!
This weekend Rise Industries has work showing in the “anti-Valentine orgy of a group show” Fuck Romance. Opening party is Saturday Feb 16th, 7-10pm, and the show will be on view until March 16th. Curated by Hatch Gallery and Bastard Company founder Chris Bastard, so you know you’ll love it.
Come check it out. Danielle Steel will be there.
Last night at UCLA, attended Meredith Monk and Ann Hamilton’s “Mercy”.
Holy Shit.
I think that about sums it up for now. If i am feeling adventurous, i may try to describe some bits of it later.
Last night at UCLA, attended Meredith Monk and Ann Hamilton’s “Mercy”.
Holy Shit.
I think that about sums it up for now. If i am feeling adventurous, i may try to describe some bits of it later.
Spotted at the Rem Koolhaas lecture last night in UCLA’s packed Dickenson (is that the right one?) auditorium: Mr. Brad Pitt. Funnier than seeing Tyler Durden’s twin live and in the flesh (in FDNY hat and leather jacket no less) was the crowd of (mostly) architecture student’s reaction. O My Gawd its Brad Pitt!! Following the lecture he was accosted to sign things and pose as a buddy in several pictures. Perhaps funnier than even that is the reaction to Koolhaas himself – fellow architecture students brought their worn copies of Delirious New York and in one instance a map of Holland (?) for him to sign. Perhaps ladies could get their chests signed too. It seems that OMA/AMO has been unsuccessful in their attempts to thwart the culture of the Star Architect. Even the morning of the lecture, Koolhaas was referred to as the “Britney Spears of architecture” in an otherwise unfortunate review of the LACMA building in the LA Times. So, Pop Star he is then.
The content of the lecture, however, was not quite Pop trash. He provided a peek into how the OMA/AMO split works for them, how it is organized, what each branch is up to lately, and both branches’ struggle to work within what he calls the YES regime: the tight grip of the Market. If you cannot get into OMA’s work in the years after S,M,L,XL then you should at the very least realize the brilliance of AMO.. taking the architecture out of what architects do in order to extend the profession and get paid even when building turns out to be the least viable path to send a client down. Getting paid for thinking and consulting – which we must do as part of any architectural project anyway – puts the architect back into a position of (some) control over the built environment. Being able to separate ones practice from the myths of Art and Creativity are absolutely neccesary in order to pull this off – I think that may be another rant though. Supposedly the first two books from Harvard and AMO’s Project on the City (he confessed in the lecture that it should have been titled the Project on What Used to be the CIty) will be coming out this year.. March or May or something, covering China and Retail respectively. $75 dollars each, I will wager, or higher. Working within the Market indeed.
Comments on OMA/AMO? Direct them to discuss@rise-ind.com and perhaps we can get a discussion going.
At SCI-Arc, its official. Moss is the Boss. Not only is he now in charge, but he seems to be rapidly whipping the place into his kind of shape. In the first week he has replaced the Grad and Undergrad directors as well as the Thesis coordinator, and is well on his way overhauling the Thesis process. A quote, “This is not IIT in 1965”: – thank god. There was a moment I could see us going down that path. Anyhow. Things are certainly changing, we’ll see how it actually pans out.
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