LOVE the last honorable mention by anna rita emili. beautiful.
the rest of them are a little too biological for my taste. do we really want to see that stuff on our skylines or is it just fun to play with in certain softwares?
hmm...after 100 years the general public still didnt even get used to the idea living in a house with a flat roof. who expects people to want to live in an angry looking bubble?
if architects waste their time to do bs projects like these, no wonder the typical american city looks the way it does. playing with maya is probably more fun then coming up with creative solutions for pressing problems. especially in housing where social relevance is the main concern!
For some reason both years' winners seem like the personal preferances of joakim mitchel ( sorry for the spelling). How many enterants are Columbia grads I wonder?
wow, sounds like some of you guys woke up on the wrong side of Autodesk this morning. Seriously, though, why all the doom and gloom over a highly academic competition where the entrants were, at worst, simply experimenting with various digital techniques or, at best, asking new questions instead of answering old ones?
Food for thought: are we so quick to dismiss other, much more famous projects, that are in the same utopian/experimental spirit... FLW's Broadacre, Corbu's Plan for Paris, or Archigram's work in the 60s? The reality disconnect there is large, as well, but are the questions they ask not important to the discourse of architecture?
these works are beautiful and very much in the moment, which is a great place to be and a great thing for architects and nonarchitects to reckon with. the greatest disconnect is the one between insecurity and inquisitiveness...choose the later and the former will dissipate.
I have to disagree. In a competition labeled 'Housing' i would expect more then just mathematical form giving. To put the question in a different light, is any of the projects featured fundamentally improving condition's for living, or is it just 'cool' shapes that pose more concerns then solutions for housing? (such as, what is the advantage of living in a bubble building?)
why can't it just be a formal exercise? i see nothing wrong with that especially for a competition. progressive aesthetics reflect a forward looking and diverse culture and doesn't this contribute? it goes to the argument of the importance of art as a whole.
i think there's an undervaluation of the intangible effects of progressive form. the [url=http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2007/08/22/for_museums_architects_work_miracles/]boston globe article[url] began to touch on the possible measurable impact but as soon as you start asking for tangible, quantifiable relationships between form and programmatic iimprovement, you start to turn away from what makes great architecture great.
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LOVE the last honorable mention by anna rita emili. beautiful.
the rest of them are a little too biological for my taste. do we really want to see that stuff on our skylines or is it just fun to play with in certain softwares?
nmiller, see you got a mention, congrats
hmm...after 100 years the general public still didnt even get used to the idea living in a house with a flat roof. who expects people to want to live in an angry looking bubble?
if architects waste their time to do bs projects like these, no wonder the typical american city looks the way it does. playing with maya is probably more fun then coming up with creative solutions for pressing problems. especially in housing where social relevance is the main concern!
For some reason both years' winners seem like the personal preferances of joakim mitchel ( sorry for the spelling). How many enterants are Columbia grads I wonder?
the first step in treating your addiction is admitting you have an addiction...
i think the reality "disconnect" is becoming much more easily recognizable in architectural design...
wow, sounds like some of you guys woke up on the wrong side of Autodesk this morning. Seriously, though, why all the doom and gloom over a highly academic competition where the entrants were, at worst, simply experimenting with various digital techniques or, at best, asking new questions instead of answering old ones?
Food for thought: are we so quick to dismiss other, much more famous projects, that are in the same utopian/experimental spirit... FLW's Broadacre, Corbu's Plan for Paris, or Archigram's work in the 60s? The reality disconnect there is large, as well, but are the questions they ask not important to the discourse of architecture?
(PS. beefeaters, thanks)
these works are beautiful and very much in the moment, which is a great place to be and a great thing for architects and nonarchitects to reckon with. the greatest disconnect is the one between insecurity and inquisitiveness...choose the later and the former will dissipate.
3d pattern making in Mathematica is not exactly a "new question"...
congrats to Eduardo . . . a very badass project gets some (more) recognition.
I have to disagree. In a competition labeled 'Housing' i would expect more then just mathematical form giving. To put the question in a different light, is any of the projects featured fundamentally improving condition's for living, or is it just 'cool' shapes that pose more concerns then solutions for housing? (such as, what is the advantage of living in a bubble building?)
why can't it just be a formal exercise? i see nothing wrong with that especially for a competition. progressive aesthetics reflect a forward looking and diverse culture and doesn't this contribute? it goes to the argument of the importance of art as a whole.
i think there's an undervaluation of the intangible effects of progressive form. the [url=http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2007/08/22/for_museums_architects_work_miracles/]boston globe article[url] began to touch on the possible measurable impact but as soon as you start asking for tangible, quantifiable relationships between form and programmatic iimprovement, you start to turn away from what makes great architecture great.
oh and my friends were group 268...
Why why why didn't anyone tell me about these tallented young people, belive me this made my day.
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