BLDGBLOG: We Can Terraform It For You Wholesale

BLDGBLOG: We Can Terraform It For You Wholesale

Las Vegas development called Ascaya, in progress.
Wow. The construction site in our Orlando Museum of Art project on steroids.

Brutalist buildings: Park Hill, Sheffield by Jack Lynn and Ivor Smith

Park Hill housing estate in Sheffield, England, built after WWII. 
It brought "streets in the sky." 

Brutalist buildings: Park Hill, Sheffield by Jack Lynn and Ivor Smith

Containers, Seaports, Sekula

Allan Sekula and Noël Burch, still from The Forgotten Space (2010).

After spending a summer writing about seaports and shipping containers, I'm bookmarking this article on Rhizome. http://rhizome.org/editorial/2014/aug/14/containers/

Interested to find out more...expat ladies, email me at jdietrick@gmail if you have any stories about ports, shipments, or your employers—anything that relates to global trade. It's for a 2015 summer project at MoCA Jacksonville's Project Atrium and a larger series. Past project documented by the extraordinary Sarah Emerson here: https://vimeo.com/71907184

Foreclosed Home Update

Oh to be at this conference at Columbia University this weekend. http://buellcenter.org/

Temporal Gerrymandering

▶ Geoff Manaugh at The Center for Design and Geopolitics - YouTube: http://youtu.be/MNzkl65pwtU?t=7m21s   Playing with time zones to meet socio-political goals.

Quantitative Urbanism

Life in the City Is Essentially One Giant Math Problem in Smithsonian Magazine

Dietrick + Mundy. The Sea is a Smooth Space. 2013. Single-channel animation. Dimensions variable.

Michelle Grabner on Curating the Whitney Biennial- BurnAway

Michelle Grabner, fearless as usual. "I am giving primacy to artists who are also teachers rather than young emerging artists. I looked at the artists who are teaching these young artists."

http://burnaway.org/michelle-grabner-give-talks-atlanta-nashville/

Golan Levin Liberates Legos

How A Geek Dad And His 3D Printer Aim To Liberate Legos - Forbes

Meat Houses, TTBK

Mitchell Joaquim and the Terreform 1 team on organic ways of building homes… 

Geographies of Collaboration, Berlin

After Year Zero - Geographies of Collaboration I Conference
Exhibition - Conference
Haus der Kulturen der Welt / Berlin
http://hkw.de

Exhibition / 19.09-24.11

The realignment of the world after the Second World War is not recounted
here with regard to the confrontation between the Cold War blocs, but with
a focus on the interweaving of European and African history in the process
of decolonization.

In installations, videos and films , artists such as John Akomfrah and
Jihan El-Tahri examine the attempts to transform the basic conditions of a
Western-dominated modern era. A conference takes up "Geographies of
Collaboration" with a view to the first Asian-African conference, which was
held in Bandung, Indonesia in 1955 and gave rise to the Non-Aligned
Movement.

Conference  / 03-05.10.2013

The panel discussions take as their point of departure the Western,
ideologically dressed-up concept of freedom, of which the Congress Hall,
today the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, itself is a symbol. The building,
conceived as an architectural signal in the Cold War, exemplifies the
humanistic universalism of the "free West" that reordered itself after the
Second World War.

Meg Cranston and John Baldessari in Berlin

Real Painting (red farm house), 2013

Acrylic and oil on canvas

106,7 x 91,4 cm / 42 x 36 in.

12 Things Successful Women Do Differently

12 Things Successful Women Do Differently
on the Huffington Post

28 Female Thinkers You Should Know, Even If Wired Magazine Doesn't

28 Female Thinkers You Should Know, Even If Wired Magazine Doesn't
Scroll down for list of ladies

Melanie Willhide: To Adrian Rodriguez With Love

Melanie Willhide: To Adrian Rodriguez With Love (PHOTOS).

A happy glitch story.

Color Organ | The Daily Omnivore

Color Organ | The Daily Omnivore

Flight Maps

Visual flight rules for area around Chicago. More at http://vfrmap.com/

Expat Population Worldwide Infographic | The Global Shed

Expat Population Worldwide Infographic | The Global Shed

Talking Poetry and Pedagogy with the SFPC (@SFPC_school) Team

Talking Poetry and Pedagogy with the SFPC (@SFPC_school) Team

The Colorful Stories of 5 Obsolete Art Pigments

The Colorful Stories of 5 Obsolete Art Pigments

Artist interview, Walid Raad: a mediator between worlds - The Art Newspaper

Artistic interventions: Walid Raad, Appendix XVIII: Plates 160-237, 2012

Artist interview, Walid Raad: a mediator between worlds - The Art Newspaper

"...when these objects travel overseas, they will change...In the final reckoning, Raad is committed to expressing his political, historical and theoretical concerns in a medium that is emphatically visual. “I’m working with line, colour, shape and form,” he says. “Whether it’s a war or this massive infrastructure, you confront an event like this emotionally, aesthetically, historically, conceptually, and you see an opening for a new form, a gesture that must do justice to the complexity of this experience. Physical universes are being built all the time. How do you build one that doesn’t collapse in a few seconds? That’s a challenge."