Monthly Archives: November 2006

del Campo Manninger lecture at SCI-Arc.

Written by . Posted on November 30, 2006. Filed under lectures. Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , . No comments.
SCI-Arc

Following an invitation of Florencia Pita, professor of architecture at SCI-Arc and head of architecture firm FPmod, Matias del Campo and Sandra Manninger held a lecture about the research work and design progress within their practice as well as presenting the AMM Network. The AMM … Read More →

Dennis Dollens at Materials & Applications, Silverlake.

Written by . Posted on November 29, 2006. Filed under lectures. Tagged , , . No comments.
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Dennis Dollens is a Santa Fe located architect and professor at the program for genetic architecture at the ESARQ in Barcelona, where he teaches together with Karl S. Chu and Alberto Estevez. Yesterday night Dennis Dollens made a visit to Silverlake based gallery Materials & … Read More →

High genus entity – the butterfly pavilion.

Written by . Posted on November 28, 2006. Filed under research, research design. Tagged , , , , , , , , . No comments.
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After several failed attempts to gain control over high genus entities, we finally found a possible approach to design and visualize this architectonic problem. The basic idea is to create gradient transitions between interior and exterior, as well as to investigate novel approaches for circulation, … Read More →

Plate du jour: Tablecrit at USC.

Written by . Posted on November 27, 2006. Filed under teaching. Tagged , , , , , . No comments.
TablecritUSC

Matias del Campo has been invited as guest for a tablecrit at Christoph Kapeller‘s studio at the USC. The students task, is to design a library within the boundaries of a park. There are only four days to go for the students to finish their … Read More →

Exotic morphologies and porous bodies at SCI-Arc.

Written by . Posted on November 24, 2006. Filed under teaching. Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , . No comments.
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Today we joined the board of critics at the midterm review of a SCI-Arc studio whose teaching board includes Elena Manferdini, Florencia Pita and Ramiro Diaz Granado. Following a ground course in architecture design techniques the students task is to approach a specific architecture design. … Read More →

Outlet – let it out!

Written by . Posted on November 24, 2006. Filed under lectures. Tagged , , , , , , , , . No comments.
Outlet

Not just another magazine – Outlet kickoff event. The freshly founded online magazine Outlet had a successfull testfly tuesday night at the Mandrake Bar. The event’s test pilots were Jason Payne, of the LA based architecture firm GNUform and Hernan Diaz Alonso, Head of Xefirotarch. … Read More →

Review at studio Testa Weiser, SCI-Arc, templating architecture.

Written by . Posted on November 22, 2006. Filed under teaching. Tagged , , , , , , . No comments.
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After our visit two weeks ago, Peter Testa invited us to join the board of critics anew for the last review before the finals at SCI-Arc. The main investigation in this terms task is about the application of the template as a design tool as … Read More →

Skin + Bones exhibition at MOCA.

Written by . Posted on November 19, 2006. Filed under exhibition. Tagged , , , , , , , , , , . No comments.
CarbonTower

Skin + Bones at the Los Angeles MOCA opened its gates to the public today. The exhibition examines the relation between fashion and architecture in contemporary practices, including issues such as patterns, geometry, construction, deconstruction and folding. Architecture and fashion practices share comparable notions in … Read More →