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Homeboy travels far and edges on

2014-08-06T16:46:00-04:00

“Enough said... Some of you will know this is the open country. In it, you need small and big ideas. I like big cars and the universe is made from small things. There shouldn't be any speed limits on a thousand high plains.”

“Some will know architecture is like the universe, made from small parts.”

“Some will know even the big parts are small in relative thinking... How do I know..?

“Fundamentally speaking, not because I see a lot of walls, windows and ceilings from the water's edge."

“Not because my mind is like the ocean"

“And not because I can speak and script,"

“and jump.”

“I don't know.., maybe because I'm Homeboy from the plateaus.”

Photographs: Michael Rotondi
Story: Orhan Ayyüce

Previously: Homeboy on Tupperville

Review: The Best Lecture Times by Steven Holl and Bjarke Ingels

2011-03-10T12:56:00-05:00

Lovedog bites the Pragmatic Utopia: "AMBIGUITY"

and

"HEDONISTIC SUSTAINABILITY" with white on black slogan slides as presented. Superficial review of Steven Holl and Bjarke Ingels lectures in Los Angeles.

"AMBIGUITY" by Steven Holl

Date and place:
3/2/2011, SCI Arc, Los Angeles

Main Material:
Lecture built around meaning of "ambiguity" in the works of the architect. Large scale mixed use projects in China.
Queens Library in New York, museums, watercolor drawings, concept diagrams, architect's own photos of finished projects with construction slides. Show and tell format. Reading from a text.

Crowd:
Students, 30 and 40 somethings, older ladies and gentlemen, in all equal amounts.

Sense of Humor:
Negligible, except audience laughed in an in the know moment when Holl showed a picture of himself with Thom Mayne wearing hard hats touring Holl's construction site in China.

Relevancy to what's going on (based on global poverty ranking in relation to his clients):
None.

Best moments:
Cantilevered product...

Homeboy on Tupperville

2011-02-08T12:30:00-05:00

Homeboy on Tupperville

Photographs: Michael Rotondi
Story: Orhan Ayyüce

Art Review; Moss, Kipnis and the Box

2009-07-30T06:53:00-04:00

A brief snapshot of last night's Gallery Talk event in SCI Arc.
'Conversation Under the Box'

CONVERSATION UNDER THE BOX
By Orhan Ayyuce

I almost didn't go if it wasn't for a business meeting I had near SCI Arc right before the much anticipated gallery installation talk between Eric Owen Moss, architect and school's director and his friend and critic Jeffrey Kipnis about ; architecture related, grid related, art related, poetry related, related over the top and 'what's inside of me' personal installation of aluminum produced cube, precariously hanging from the ceiling above, bondaged with finite, centered circular flat bars, fighting a war against orthographic and infinite grid.

An integral part of the visual concept, the exhibition incorporated a boxing ring or some other theatrics influenced seating arrangement, demanding your focused attention to the work uber alles. If you were sitting in the gallery, you were either an actor or an audience, a part of the performance piece t...