Recent work from Studio Greg Lynn at the Angewandte in Vienna channels the aesthetic culture of robots to produce new forms of architectural spectacle. The studio is documented in a video by David Fenster and Brennan Buck.
the robots are at a larger scale than previous examples yet they seem to just be larger.
the students speak of many, many parts that make up the whole, kind of 'school of fish' theory, yet the work isn't as fluid as the talk. why? it's all computer generated, no worries about gravity, structure, etc.
maybe the person at the end with the 'carpet-like' robot had the most potential. it should all be smoother, more dynamic.
Yea, they did that studio at Yale last year. I think they do a better job of studying tectonics than others, maybe because of the research on toys and other robots? But it's true that something in terms of gravity is lost in computer models, and something that could give a lot more drama to the large robots as frames to performance spaces. Although traditional modeling is usually so over-strong given it's scale that it's not a perfect fit either.
For me, the quality of the cinematography and the video editing (especially Jay-Z's "99 Problems" riff) is enough to make me watch the video again. Kudos to the filmmaker(s).
Beyond that, I would suspect that final jury would have thrown more fire than was featured. Could it be that they were soft, or is there some final jury footage intentionally left on the cutting room floor?
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the robots are at a larger scale than previous examples yet they seem to just be larger.
the students speak of many, many parts that make up the whole, kind of 'school of fish' theory, yet the work isn't as fluid as the talk. why? it's all computer generated, no worries about gravity, structure, etc.
maybe the person at the end with the 'carpet-like' robot had the most potential. it should all be smoother, more dynamic.
Yea, they did that studio at Yale last year. I think they do a better job of studying tectonics than others, maybe because of the research on toys and other robots? But it's true that something in terms of gravity is lost in computer models, and something that could give a lot more drama to the large robots as frames to performance spaces. Although traditional modeling is usually so over-strong given it's scale that it's not a perfect fit either.
i'm less interested in the work of the studio than how they package and distribute it. that's what seems to be happening about the angewandte.
for my part, i'm guessing gravity was never discussed during the semester.
For me, the quality of the cinematography and the video editing (especially Jay-Z's "99 Problems" riff) is enough to make me watch the video again. Kudos to the filmmaker(s).
Beyond that, I would suspect that final jury would have thrown more fire than was featured. Could it be that they were soft, or is there some final jury footage intentionally left on the cutting room floor?
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