Robotically Sewn Timber Pavilion

http://www.dezeen.com/2016/05/05/robotically-fabricated-pavilion-university-of-stuttgart-students-plywood-icd-itke/

25 Sculptural Structures Scattered Around ex-Yugoslavia

Some fantastically quirky remnants of the communist days. I hope to visit them one day!

http://www.cracktwo.com/2011/04/25-abandoned-soviet-monuments-that-look.html

Neglected Utopia

Some gorgeous shots of Modernist multi-res in Paris.
http://www.creativeboom.com/photography/neglected-utopia-photographer-explores-the-forgotten-modernist-estates-of-paris/

EXPERIMENT 2

[OSCAR NIEMEYER]

• Expressing the fluid material property of concrete through form.
• Heaviness of the material vs. the aesthetic lightness of form.
• Volumetric addition and subtraction as a formal strategy.
• Purity of the whole without recognisable parts.
• "Form follows beauty" The hedonistic privileging of beauty instating the curve as an ideal.
• Monumentality as a result of the lack of recognisable scale indicators.
• The promenade towards/throughout the architecture as a human experience of space.

[MARC FORNES]

• Porosity of surface/ space.
• Continuity of surface/space.
• Biomimmicry as a structural strategy.
• Play of light and shadow to create ever-changing ephemeral space.
• Material junction as structural strategy.
• Material junction as ornament.
• Aesthetic lightness.

[image sources:]

http://thesuperslice.com/2012/12/05/oscar-niemeyer-1907-2012-dead-at-104/

http://www.contemporist.com/2014/10/11/situation-room-by-theverymany-and-jana-winderen/vm_111014_05/

Under | Ground

http://inhabitat.com/biancoshock-is-hiding-miniature-homes-in-milans-manholes/

Blu Blu

Flores y Prats

Spend some time getting lost in the chambers of Spanish firm Flores & Prat's website. In time you too will need to make some videos...

http://www.floresprats.com/studio/

Be inspired...

For drawing/representation inspiration: http://drawingarchitecture.tumblr.com/

Numen / For Use

Check out Numen / For Use for some awesome sticky tape exploration.

http://www.numen.eu/home/news/

Botplay

video at: https://vimeo.com/152438993

Yarnplay

http://design-milk.com/yarn-installation-allows-experience-music-physically/

All my lovely and talented ARCH1101 students please post your blogs in the comments!