Posted in art on Oct 27th, 2009
Nice video about a virtual building in Second Life called ‘Alexander Beach’. It was built as a place of gathering for students of the Princeton University. Looking at the forms of the building, very similar to what you can find in the state of the art architecture of the real world (e.g. on WAN), I [...]
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Posted in art on Aug 5th, 2009
After months of intensive work on the Dreams of Progress exhibition, I’m back on my blog and I’m going to change few things. Now that I have started my philanthropic career as a curator, I have plenty of long and theoretical texts to write. I don’t want to publish equally boring texts on this blog, [...]
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Posted in innovation on Jan 26th, 2009
The New London Architecture, at the Building centre, is an initiative that seeks to highlight the level of development either planned or currently underway in London. ”Digital Cities, London’s future” was their latest exhibition. It highlights some of the resources and technologies which designers can use in the development of the city and explores areas [...]
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Posted in philosophy on Sep 27th, 2008
I visited the Serpentine pavilion 2008 last weekend while my head was still full of the thoughts from my last post. It led me to a revelation few days later, a whole new interpretation of the Frank Gehry pavilion and the architectural deconstructivism in general!
I didn’t realize how much Deconstructivism mirrors the hopes of our [...]
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