Archinect Outpost to host launch of The Blindspot Initiative, Jose Sanchez's book of essays on design resistance

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Join us in celebrating The Blindspot Initiative, the latest book of projects and essays on design resistance and alternative modes of practice edited by Jose Sanchez at Archinect Outpost on Saturday, February 9th, 7-9pm. The evening will begin with a talk by Jose Sanchez and comments by contributors to the book (including Behnaz Farahi, Biayna Bogosian of Somewhere Something and Casey Rehm of Kinch), followed by a Virtual Reality demonstration and book signing.

The book is available for presale here, to be signed by Jose Sanchez at the event.

Gaming the Real World. Photo courtesy of Jose Sanchez of Plethora Project

Published by Evolo, The Blindspot Initiative contains a forward by generative software designer Casey Reas and texts by Jose Sanchez, David Gerber, Jenny Wu, Kate Davies and Mostafa Elsayed.

‘Multi Family House’ (Rendering courtesy of Gilles Retsin Architecture)

The Blindspot Initiative features work from a range of architectural designers, including Satoru Sugihara, Gille...

Critiquing Architecture Fiction: + generative architecture with Processing at SCI-ARC?

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*Definitely gooier and weirder than your everyday parametrics. Maybe Spongebob Squarepants could live in one of these; otherwise, you’d be hard-put. *But hey, great window-treatments!

Bruce Sterling on some images featuring the work of some SCI-Arc Fall 2011 Midterm students. The images, can be found on a site promoting iGeo a free and open source 3D modeling software library in Java for computational design in architecture, product design, interaction design and more.

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Archinect Outpost to host launch of The Blindspot Initiative, Jose Sanchez's book of essays on design resistance

Critiquing Architecture Fiction: + generative architecture with Processing at SCI-ARC?