Uwe Schröder - Auerberg housing, Bonn 2003. Photos © Peter Oszvald.
Entre Pinos | Taller Hector Barroso
Location: Valle de Bravo, Mexico
Photography: Rory Gardiner
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On Sol LeWitt’s birthday, we’re thrilled to share a recently restored net art project inspired by his work. {Software} Structures by Casey Reas with Jared Tarbell, Robert Hodgin, and William Ngan initially launched in August 2004, and was restored in 2016 to work well with contemporary web browsers. Inspired by LeWitt’s wall drawings, the project explores the relevance of conceptual art to the idea of software as art. This documentation video captures a few minutes of a continuous, generative drawing from the project. Explore more.
“My work has no object, no image and no focus… You are looking at you looking.” — James Turrell
YouTube Artifacts
Latest AR exhibition from MoMAR (who ran a guerilla show earlier this year) returns to the Pollock Room at MoMA New York featuring works by David Kraftsow, responsible for the YouTube Artififacts bot that regularly generates animated images from distorted videos:
Welcome to The Age of the Algorithm. A world in which automated processes are no longer simply tools at our disposal, but the single greatest omnipresent force currently shaping our world. For the most part, they remain unseen. Going about their business, mimicking human behavior and making decisions based on statistical analysis of what they ‘think’ is right. If the role of art in society is to incite reflection and ask questions about the state of our world, can algorithms be a part of determining and defining people’s artistic and cultural values? MoMAR presents a series of eight pieces created by David Kraftsow’s YouTube Artifact Bot.
Natural Light and Ventilation
Courtyards bring many advantages to a design such as increased natural light and improved ventilation conditions, while providing occupants with direct access to the outside and to nature.
Here is a selection of images identified from the top:
- V House COTAPAREDES Arquitectos
- Guerrero House Alberto Campo Baeza
- Aloni decaARCHITECTURE
- Brick Cave H&P Architects
- Uncle’s House 3 Atelier
- El Internado Fantuzzi + Rodillo Arquitectos
- Living with Sun Light MOVEDESIGN
- Inverted Warehouse-Townhouse / Dean-Wolf Architects
- Jardins House CR2 Arquitetura
- Siyeonjae DESIGN GROUP COLLABO
Learn more about each project following the source link.
1970s plans saw MARTA affecting regional growth.
Source: “TRANSIT STATION AREA DEVELOPMENT STUDIES SUMMARY. SEPTEMBER. 1977” - GSU Digital Collection
Is that a tennis court on top of the station in that second image? These renderings are great.
A little about the document these images come from: it’s basically giving the result of studies of the areas where rail transit stations were going to be built, and classifying them by type (urban station, neighborhood station, commuter park and ride, and more).
The renderings here are not of specific stations, but are representations of station types, in an effort to help describe how transit stops will interact with surroundings and how they’ll help shape the form that these neighborhoods take in the future. Here’s a passage from the document’s forward:
“Rapid transit will not only carry people, but it will also have an enormous effect on the communities and neighborhoods through which it passes. The purpose of the Transit Station Area Development Studies (TSADS) is to ensure that the effects of transit are positive. To a large degree, the completed system will determine how the region will grow in the future.”
Sadly, our MARTA rail stations did not end up having a significant effect on regional growth, which defiantly sprawled outward (homes, retail, and jobs alike) in a shape meant for driving. Meanwhile, the places surrounding most rail stations saw little or no growth, even some urban ones like Garnett Station, which is surrounded by parking lots and probably has even less “stuff” nearby it now than it did when the rail stop was designed.
Fortunately we now have a transit oriented development (TOD) program going, though I’m eager to see future TOD designs incorporate much less parking than these early ones do. The banks that loaned money to build this first round have demanded a high ratio of parking, I’ve heard, because they still see Atlanta as a car-oriented place. Change is slow and hard, in the wake of the region’s intentional design of places for cars.
In order to fit harmoniously into a ‘Heimatstil’-style neighborhood, the new college is articulated in several volumes. Four buildings offer a variety of out…