after ito effects

speculative study of urban field condition operating in toyo ito’s taichung metropolitan opera project -jp

Site as Assemblage

High-Concept Sukkahs

-Video covering the 2010 Sukkah City winning entries.

thesis precedents ii

wave pavilion

the ‘wave pavilion’ by macdowell.tomova acts as both a pragmatic and conceptual testing ground, leveraging scripting and advanced digital fabrication toward the expansion of disciplinary modes of design and construction. the pavilion operates as a piece of landscape furniture, an occupiable space of gathering and leisure. set on the grounds of the university of michigan, [...]

spotlight: terreform

IN VITRO MEAT HABITAT Credits: Mitchell Joachim, Eric Tan, Oliver Medvedik, Maria Aiolova. This is an architectural proposal for the fabrication of 3D printed extruded pig cells to form real organic dwellings. It is intended to be a “victimless shelter”, because no sentient being was harmed in the laboratory growth of the skin. We used [...]

sukkah city: entries

-The Sukkah City website has recently unveiled the competition entries online! Visit the website to see the entrants, including the archimorph + verS entry Your-sUKKAH. More images from the competition entry may be found on the archimorph blog or on our facebook page.

brainbow

Dr. Albert Pan “Brainbow” zebra fish. Neurons are labeled in multiple colors with Brainbow fluorescence microscopy. Three fluorescent proteins (cyan, yellow and red) are randomly taken up by various neurons, offering a palette of dozens of colors to help scientists follow complex neural pathways. Shown here is a five-day-old zebra fish larva viewed from the [...]

crit 39

How changes occur and the orders in which they emerge are placed by both time and events. In biological terms the phenomena was first explained by Charles Darwin and Alfred Russell Wallace who in 1858 jointly unveiled their theories On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties; and on the Perpetuation of Varieties and Species [...]

uofm | future of technology

Future of Technology Friday, September 24, 2010 1:30 PM–6:00 PM Saturday, September 25, 2010 10:00 AM–4:00 PM Location Rackham Auditorium 915 East Washington Street Ann Arbor, MI 48109 The Future of Technology Conference at University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, September 24-25, features critics, practitioners and academics presenting how technology empowers, [...]