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[Image: The front and back covers of Support Structures].The last book launch I want to mention today?it seems like the only things going on these days are launches!?is for a fantastic-looking book called Support Structures by Céline Condorelli. The launch is coming up on December 3 at Storefront for Art and …
BLDG BLOG 2009-11-20 16:41:00
It is clearly the season for book launch events! Tomorrow, Saturday, November 21, at the Columbus Circle Borders in Manhattan, Jeff VanderMeer will be reading from his new book Finch?and then engaging in a conversation about fiction and the city with Jeffrey Ford, Ron Hogan, and myself.[Image: The cover to Finch, …
BLDG BLOG 2009-11-20 16:11:00
Tonight in Cambridge, Massachusetts, New Geographies will be kicking off its second issue, "Landscapes of Energy," with a launch party and panel discussion. The new issue includes many contributors, ranging from Kazys Varnelis and Mirko Zardini to the Center for Land Use Interpretation and Carola Hein, and it was edited by …
BLDG BLOG 2009-11-19 18:18:00
Photographer Richard Mosse, interviewed here on BLDGBLOG earlier this year, has a show opening up tonight in New York City: The Fall. [Image: Richard Mosse, "Grand Voyager Sunni Triangle" (2009), courtesy of the Jack Shainman Gallery].For the past year, Mosse has been traveling the world on a Leonore Annenberg Fellowship, documenting …
BLDG BLOG 2009-11-18 17:42:00
[Image: Photo by Bas Princen, from Five Cities Portfolio].Photographer Bas Princen has a new book out, Five Cities Portfolio: Amman, Beirut, Cairo, Dubai, Istanbul, coinciding with a conference to be held this Friday, November 20, at the Netherlands Architecture Institute. That event, called "Refuge: Architectural Propositions for Unbound Spaces," will feature?among …
BLDG BLOG 2009-11-18 16:03:00
The previous post reminded me of a news item reported roughly two weeks ago, that the town of Carlsbad, NM, is in danger of collapsing into the earth below due to the out-of-control dissolution of underground salt deposits. [Image: An otherwise unrelated photograph of a house radically subsiding; courtesy of NOAA]."The …
BLDG BLOG 2009-11-18 14:57:00
A Soviet-era, Polish-born, Ukrainian-raised writer named Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky was the subject of a short profile and review over at The Nation last week. The article focuses on one of Krzhizhanovsky's stories called "Quadraturin" (which you can read in full online). [Image: Based on a photo by eversion].The basic gist is that …
BLDG BLOG 2009-11-16 20:01:00
[Image: Barry Underwood, courtesy of Johansson Projects]. The Johansson Projects gallery over in Oakland is hosting an exhibition of photographs by Barry Underwood, called Earth Engines; the show also includes a series of sound installations by artist Oliver diCicco. [Image: Barry Underwood, courtesy of Johansson Projects].On the one hand, Underwood's photos …
BLDG BLOG 2009-11-15 18:40:00
I couldn't resist this photo of a man blown off his feet by high winds on the British coast.[Image: Photo by Steve Poole/Rex Features, via the Guardian].How could we take better spatial advantage of meteorological situations like this, I wonder, whether that means designing parachute-like clothing lines for weekend air-surfing or …
BLDG BLOG 2009-11-15 17:09:00
I mentioned Tom Zoellner's book Uranium the other day, in the context of atomic geology, but there is another brief comment in that book worth calling attention to here. [Image: Azadi Tower in Tehran's Azadi Square].At one point late in the book, Zoellner is discussing Iran's uranium-processing program and that country's …
BLDG BLOG 2009-11-13 21:37:00
[Image: "Aqualta: 5th Avenue & 35th Street, NYC," by Studio Lindfors; view larger].Studio Lindfors?of Cloud Skippers and Cloud City fame?have released a stunning new series of images, published here on BLDGBLOG for the first time, in which we see New York City and Tokyo after a catastrophic flood. [Image: "Aqualta: Garment …
BLDG BLOG 2009-11-13 18:02:00
While I'm on the subject of events, I'll be speaking at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design this coming Monday, November 16; I'm giving a talk called The Turbulence Biennial. It's free and open to the public, and it starts at 6pm in Room B1 of Meyerson Hall.[Image: A map …
BLDG BLOG 2009-11-12 17:13:00
Jeffrey Inaba and C-LAB will be hosting a book launch this evening?Thursday, November 12?at the New Museum in New York. The party kicks off at 6:30pm, lasts two hours, and it's free and open to the public?but you have to RSVP. Just send a quick note to dthiem@newmuseum.org; tell them you …
BLDG BLOG 2009-11-10 20:01:00
[Image: Airfield at Guantanamo Bay converted for the quarantine of 10,000 Haitian migrants; via Wikimedia].Krista Maglen is Assistant Professor of History at Indiana University, where her research explores the nature of infectious disease prevention, including quarantine, during the latter part of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century. In …
BLDG BLOG 2009-11-10 14:58:00
[Image: The Key Lake uranium mine].I'm in the process of finishing Tom Zoellner's compulsively readable book Uranium, and I'm finding it extremely hard to put down. A beautifully written history of the radioactive mineral used in nuclear weapons, it includes some amazing anecdotes and descriptions. What's particularly interesting about the book, …
BLDG BLOG 2009-11-10 14:05:00
[Image: London's Fourth Plinth, via Google Image search].In an odd coincidence with the previous post, I actually saw a show at the American Museum of Natural History's planetarium yesterday?an experience which reminded me not only how much I love planetaria, and that planetaria should be built all over the city, inside …
BLDG BLOG 2009-11-10 04:27:00
[Image: A flood strikes Manhattan; image via New York magazine]/.Jace Clayton, aka DJ /rupture, who is interviewed in The BLDGBLOG Book, has a new album out with Matt Shadetek?and he's suddenly everywhere. The newest issue of New York magazine, for instance, has a short feature in which Rupture describes their new …
BLDG BLOG 2009-11-08 18:51:00
[Image: The multiple-shadow casting cube by Niloy Mitra and Mark Pauly].Spotted via New Scientist is this amazing new computer model that allows designers to create objects based on the multiple and highly specific shadows those objects will cast when lit from different angles. Seen above is one, relatively mundane example of …
BLDG BLOG 2009-11-08 18:03:00
[Image: A diagram of landslide dynamics?how surfaces seek out and reassert equilibrium?courtesy of the UK Geological Society].
BLDG BLOG 2009-11-08 17:10:00
Architect and filmmaker Ed Keller has organized a fantastic day-long conference next weekend here in New York City about multi-agent systems, cities, swarms, media, hives, collectives, outbreaks, disruptions, and more. The idea is to look at how momentary but extremely consequential losses of equilibrium can affect, offer metaphors for, and even …
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