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Very Large Organizations: an exhibition and "Unsolicited Charter"

2013-11-12T13:03:00-05:00

The central problem of the VLO is the problem of information...The role of architecture, it would seem, can’t remain at the level of a silent humanitarian service that merely wipes up after the mess is left. Acts like drawing, writing, visualizing, and building must deal with invoking a world where human innovation can be protected from the Leviathan. - Javier Arbona

Originally launched at WUHO Gallery in Los Angeles earlier this year, but now on display at Studio-X New York, November 1-26, 2013 the exhibition "Very Large Organizations (VLOs)" by architect Jordan Geiger, introduces design research on the architecture and human-computer interactions.

To accompany the opening at Studio-X New York, Javier Arbona penned an "An Unsolicited charter for the Very Large Organization", in which he clarifies the potential of architecture for illuminating the extrastatecraft and "Geographical imaginaries" of VLOs.

A skyline all their own

2012-11-20T17:01:00-05:00

A new breed of Chinese architects like Li Hu seeks inspiration from inside themselves. [...] Conventional wisdom says that "futuristic", modern and massive architecture is making Beijing into an international metropolis. However, Chinese architect Li Hu says the capital city needs architects who have their own attitudes.

Editor's Picks #272

2012-07-08T12:50:00-04:00

HandsumCa$hMoneyYo commented "Norman Foster seems like a really odd fit for this project. He's a wealthy corporatist architect from northern Europe...taking on an abandoned arts academy in a communist state in the tropics, hmm. What could possibly go wrong, yo?"

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Reports surfaced via an interview in the Sunday Times that Sir Norman Foster has been engaged to plan for a conversion of the famed Scuola di ballo, Escuela Nacional de Arte in Cuba. HandsumCa$hMoneyYo commented "Norman Foster seems like a really odd fit for this project. He's a wealthy corporatist architect from northern Europe...taking on an abandoned arts academy in a communist state in the tropics, hmm. What could possibly go wrong, yo?"

Gov. Brown granted fast-track status to Apple headquarters because "Apple's state-of-the art campus brings at least $100 million dollars in investment to California and generates no additional greenhouse gas emissions". holz.box corrected "tax breaks and fast tracked status! also, brown's dead wrong on this: 'generates no additional greenhouse gas emissions' - only if the project is off-grid. grid-tied net zero ain't 'emissions free’.” and Apurimac added "Suburban superblocks are just as boring as urban ones."

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