May 27

Mapping advertising, Ad-busting, and the future of interfaces

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(By Nicola Bozzi)

Thanks to the internet, we now own more knowledge than we can possibly absorb. As a consequence, the web is more and more about interfaces, about the way we’re served this cognitive over-abundance and the graphic ways we can filter it. Interfaces become the aesthetics of the latest postmodernity: when all information is common, to filter, choose, and even discard it, is an act of elegance, a semiotic gesture more significant than information itself. So, the explosion of maps, indexes, graphs and charts over the internet becomes the world wide web’s most relevant content. Read more

March 20

Architecture snaps on Flickr

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Let’s face it: reading on the internet can be pretty boring. Even the most interesting text can be impossible to digest when it comes as a solid block of tight black-on-white pixels, and that’s why people try and post as many pictures as they can. Plus, you get to share your own view on things you’ve seen and places you’ve been, which is good. For you architecture-starved blog-readers, here’s an amazing collection of architecture photos from Flickr sets around the world, spotted and categorized by guaduatedegree.org. Categories range from general attitudes towards architecture to specific locations or decades (check out some examples below).

Architectural Paparazzi – photo by Trout Factory

Architecture Porn – photo by Optimieron
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January 30

The Places We Live

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In 2008, for the first time in history, the worldwide urban population got bigger than that of rural areas. Slums are the fastest growing living environment and provide shelter to one billion people all over the world, but the conditions in which their dwellers survive everyday are often subhuman. Between 2005 and 2007, Magnum’s Jonas Bendiksen travelled across the world to document the most populated slums and the people living in them. Overpopulation, lack of sanitation, electricity and water, violence and crime are the main problems we always hear about in the media, but Bendiksen’s work gets deeper into the infinite nuances and experiences of the very people who struggle every day through poverty in the slums of Caracas, Kibera, Dharavi, Jakarta. He entered their households, took pictures, interviewed them, had them narrate their anecdotes and talk about their daily routines. His experience became a book and a multimedia exhibition at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo, focusing in particular on the human dimension of slums: the households themselves. If you don’t have the chance to check out the exhibition or buy the book, luckily there is also this amazing website.

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January 16

Superuse

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After our post about 0300TV, here’s another review of a website we care to advise Y readers.

Superuse is based on a simple but effective concept. For the viewer, it is a big database of recycling-related projects in various fields (design, architecture, art, etc) and for its registered users it is a community whose members can submit stuff and vote other people’s sumissions. As a social network Superuse doesn’t seem to allow super fancy profile pages, but this is not necessarily a bad thing since it keeps it hardcore to the posting, the voting and the commenting. More than a tool for professionals to promote their work (even though it can also be used as such) the website is about being passionate and showing appreciation for recycling, with tons of links to pages and Flickr sets. The voting thing makes the sharing tastier, and we know sharing is one of the internet’s best virtues. Read more

December 19

0300TV

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We’ve already run into this website before, but – considering we have a Web section – it’s worth spending some more words about 0300TV. Read more

December 5

Beyond Media

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In times of debate about “transmitting architecture” and “architecture without building“, the relationship between the media and environment design is tighter and tighter. Image and Marco Brizzi just announced their call for video entries for the ninth edition of BEYOND MEDIA, international festival of architecture and media. This year’s theme is Visions.

“The festival, devoted to the most advanced visualizations in architecture and to the debate on the relationships between the project and the media of communication, will take place at the Stazione Leopolda in Florence, Italy, July 9-17, 2009. Organized by Image www.image-web.org, and curated by Marco Brizzi, BEYOND MEDIA has been constantly observing, since 1997, the development of the systems of communication in the field of architecture by evaluating their impact on contemporary architectural production and by promoting quality and research in the advance of communication media for design projects.
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November 20

Tenerife Arts Space by Herzog & De Meuron

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(photos © Federico Garcìa)

Spain: Herzog & De Meuron strike again. After the Caixa Forum in Madrid, here’s the second art-related project in one year. The swiss architects’ latest work has been unveiled just a few days ago in Tenerife, where it adhers to the rocky walls of Barranco de Santos, right next to the city’s historic core. Read more

November 18

Download Print-Quality Posters of WA Award Winners

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The World Architecture online community is giving awards to the most original and creative projects submitted by their users. Anybody can join and the selected project doesn’t necessarily need to be altready realized, meaning you can submit yours in time for the 3rd cycle deadline, that is Jan 23rd, 2009. In case you don’t have anything to submit, you can still download luxury high-definition posters to decorate your office or your room. The 1st cycle of awards winner are online here, and here are more information about the contest. Read more

November 12

IDEAS – Piel.Skin by Ethel Baraona Pohl

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Here’s a perfect example of the things we think about for our CALL FOR IDEAS section.
Barcelona-based salvadorian architect Ethel Baraona Pohl created an online architecture book, to share material and expand discussion worldwide. We can’t but appreciate this generous attitude.
Keep reading for some information about the book, fully downloadable here.

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October 27

New York Happy City

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We will be posting some good stuff from the web every now and then. Most of the times it’ll be some slick architecture studio website, a particularly active creative community, or again some very interesting project. Sometimes, we’ll post an awesome video like this. This new NYC touristic commercial shows no new cutting-edge architectural projects nor does it sport any convincing statistics, but it definitely delivers a nice view of New York City and all the exciting, glamorous, magical things that make it famous. Of course this is a pretty partial portrait, but the artwork is great. Plus, it reminds us that a city is never just an urban conglomeration, but an intensely living place shining with its native hearts, souls and minds, and this is a good thing to keep in mind whenever intervening on it.

 

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