June 30

Interview to Bestiario.org (part 1)

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As you readers probably remember we’ve dealt with bestiario.org and their dynamic data visualization interfaces before. Here’s an interview with Bestiario’s Santiago Ortiz, who answered a few questions dealing with the group’s activities and future projects, plus new tendencies and perspectives for internet use. It’s a pretty long read, so I split it in two. Enjoy.

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When and why did you realize you wanted to work with graphic data visualization?
I began playing with code very early, when I was 12 years old. I used to play with random numbers, or sinusoidal functions to create interesting patterns. Then I discovered complexity: fractals, cellular automata, chaotic functions, which generates much more interesting shapes and dynamics. Finally, as a natural step that increases complexity, I discovered the possibility of working with external data. My first serious project on data visualization was GNOM (2005), based on genetic data. With Bestiario we have developed a powerful framework based on graph theory, topological algorithms, physic models, geometrical and geographical representations…

What kind of clients do you usually have?
One of the most interesting things of this work is the wide diversity of persons and institutions than can require information spaces (and also the aims of the projects). Although the main kind of clients are cultural institutions this pattern is changing and we begin to work more with big companies. Among our clients there are cultural institutions, communication enterprises, big companies, research departments (university and enterprises), advertising agencies, museums, educational institutions. Read more

June 30

Paisajes Locales
Cristóbal Palma @ AFA Gallery, Santiago de Chile.

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Montaje_Sin Título, 88 x 120 cm. C-Print digital. Edición de 6 + 2 p/a. © Cristóbal Palma

Paisajes Locales, the new photo exhibition featuring Cristóbal Palma @ AFA Gallery, Santiago de Chile.

The second exhibition at the renovated Galería AFA presents Paisajes Locales, a selection of landscape shots by one of the most well-known architecture photographer worldwide. Cristóbal Palma here exhibits a subjective visual worldwide path of urban and natural landscapes. This work aims to tell the relationship between landscape and its use, particularly the human chance to make spaces real assets. From an Athens belvedere to Niemeyer’s architecture in Brasilia and Sao Paulo, Palma investigates and examines the act of observing starting from the dialogue among three witnesses: the photographer as a spectator of the scene, the people who actively live and observe the scene portrayed and finally the spectator of the photographer’s work. Read more

June 29

Oggetti Disobbedienti
Exhibition video

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Oggetti Disobbedienti, Giulio Iacchetti’s solo show at Milan’s Triennale has closed yesterday. The retrospective was curated by Francesca Picchi, with graphic design by Italo Lupi and “zero-mile” setting curated by Matteo Ragni. The exhibition consisted in 14 objects/concepts conceived by the designer in the last two decades.
Today we’re showing you a video of our own Angelica Di Virgilio’s visit to the exhibition, for all the ones who missed a good chance to have a taste of a great design-maker’s work, capable of creating real dialectics between form and content and introducing new communication lines in the market.

June 29

12xMilano

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June 25

Pic Nic al Tempio. Creating with Nature

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(Text and photos by Luca Molinari)

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PicScape installation by Elena Vincenzi

Pic Nic at the Temple in San Michele, Ganzaria has been a stimulating workshop organized and promoted by Marco Navarra/NOWAlab, Alessandro Rocca and Mario Lupano between may and june in the heart of Sicily. This year it’s been its fifth edition and it has had the merit to gather project designers, artists and landscape architects sharing the same attitude to free experimentation, together with students, for a week adventure of shared work. Everything started with Navarra’s pluri-awarded project of a cycle track in San Michele that, unfortunately, in a couple of years, because of the carelessness and local mismanagement, slowly disappeared. Nonetheless the sicilian architect made of this absence an occasion to bring new and different experiences and viewpoints to spur new learnings. More than eighty students coming from all Italy and many well-known authors have been summoned to interpret the “texture” theme, having the location materials and spaces at their disposal. Read more

June 25

More images of BIG’s new City Hall in Tallinn

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Here are some drawings and diagrams of the project coming directly from the studio.

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June 24

CAOS vs ORDINE
19/05/2009 – 30/06/2009

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(photos © AR/Contemporary Gallery)

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“Chaos it’s only an order you have to decipher”
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If you happen to be in Milan remember that until tuesday 30th you can see the praiseworthy little exhibition at  AR/Contemporary Gallery curated by young Francesco Clerici. Read more

June 24

BIG wins an International Competition to design Tallinn’s new City Hall

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An international idea contest was held for Tallinn’s new City Hall in Estonia and the best concept was presented by the Bjarke Ingels Group from Denmark, authored by Bjarke Ingels and Jakob Lange and Adams Kara Taylor.

The purpose of the international idea contest was to find the best architectural solution for the new administrative building of the city government that will be situated on a 35,000 m2 plot near the Linnahall building. The contest for the new city was met with a great interest, 81 architects and their teams were willing to present an entry. Of those, the international jury chose the best 9 to shortlist as finalists into the second phase of the competition. By May 15 the finalists handed in their final solutions. The international jury’s decision to award BIG’s entry first place in the competition was unanimous and was presided by the vice mayor Taavi Aas.

Bjarke Ingels, BIG, Partner-in-Charge
There is a saying that success has many fathers. That is especially true when designing such a crucial public building and public space as a town hall. The design needs to be shaped by input from neighbors’ and users, citizens and politicians. Paradoxically we architects often find ourselves isolated from this crucial dialogue at the moment of conception, due to the anonymity of the architectural competition. Since this was a 2 stage competition, we already had our first feedback from the jury – causing us to dramatically rearrange our design to fit the citizens’ needs. As a result we have envisioned a very elastic structure – capable of adapting to unexpected demands. We see it as the first conversation in a design dialogue we look forward to continue.
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June 23

The third way of Novalesa Abbey by MARC

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(Text by Angelica Di Virgilio, photos Beppe Giardino courtesy of Marc studio)

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Founded by benedict monks on a former roman settlement in 726, for over three centuries the Abbey represented not only an important center for prayer, but also for culture, thanks to an intense code-transcription activity. After alternate fortunes following the Rattazzi law, in 1855 the institution was suppressed and the monks were sent away. For more than a century the Abbey lived in a state of near abandonement and lost its manuscripts, which were transferred in Turin’s state archive. Later its facilities were converted in a hotel for thermal cures. In 1972 the monastic complex was bought by the Turin Province and again left to benedict monks. So the Abbey came back to life as a place of study and prayer, thanks in particular to Andrea Bruno’s renovation works, finished in 2004.
If the story ended here we could consider this as just a happy renovation episode, the result of the collaboration between the Turin Province and the religious order to spread awareness on an ancient spiritual, cultural and social tradition of the benedict Abbey.
Anyway, sometimes – even in Italy – stories don’t end. Sometimes the protection of architectural heritage manages to live with contemporary architecture.

In 2007 the Turin Province launched a contest for the realization of the new Archeology Musuem and the task was committed to the Turin-based Marc studio, which ranked first. On March 22, 2009 the new museum opened.

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June 22

Making Worlds. A report from the Venice Biennale

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(Text by Nicola Bozzi)

The similarities between the Architecture and the Art Biennale in Venice are getting more and more evident, but this is not limited to aesthetic intersections like building deconstruction or the invasion of the white cube by contemporary art pieces. Visual artists and architects overlap not only in the public/exhibition space, but in their very design practice. Read more

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