ZAHA HADID

CONVERSION OF 59 EATON PLACE, SITE PLAN, 1981-82

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“Was I to believe him in earnest in his intention to penetrate to the centre of this massive globe? Had I been listening to the mad speculations of a lunatic, or to the scientific conclusions of a lofty genius? Where did truth stop? Where did error begin?”
- Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth

Drawing by Rick Gooding

From the post Subterranea | Excavating spaces from the depths of the mind

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Stuart Franks’ City in a Building (and other drawings) : socks-studio

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THE FRAME HOUSE

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alephograph

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Perspective section of ‘The Filter House’ featured in the latest issue of P.E.A.R magazine by Matthew Butcher and Tom Noonan

http://www.pearmagazine.eu/P.E.A.R/Issue4.html

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Pascal Bronner - New Opera House, Malta - The Symphonic Cannon

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About Filipa Valente

Architect, Experience & Environmental Interaction Designer

I am currently based in Los Angeles, California, after having completed a Masters in Design Research on Media Art and Architecture (MediaSCAPES) at SciArc (Southern California Institute of Architecture).

I am a practicing Architect and graduated from the Graduate Diploma and BSc in Architecture at the Bartlett School of Architecture in London UK. Through work experience and since my graduation in 2008 I have had the opportunity to work for different architectural practices around the world and also have been able to pursue some of my own personal work and frequent collaborations. During the past years I have held positions at Zaha Hadid Architects, Amanda Levete Architects and Wilkinson Eyre Architects in London.

As an Architect, my work is strongly rooted in the field of architecture, but I am extremely interested in combining this field with a strong passion for experience design, environmental interaction and media art. My current research explores relationships between generative and virtual space design, our bodies and the creation of interactive environments to enrich the experience of space.

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Subterranea | Excavating spaces from the depths of the mind « dpr-barcelona

Subterranea by Rick Gooding. Courtesy of Woodbury University School of Architecture

In an era of digital representation, Gooding celebrates the precise and beautiful craft of manual drafting. He works without rulers or measuring devices and carefully constructs his drawings using the most basic architectural drafting tools: a straight edge, a 314 pencil, and an eraser and erasing shield. Gooding works exclusively in black and white. The simple palette occasionally produces Escher-esque qualities. Subversive flips of figure/ground and slips in optical logic confuse the readings of these rigorously constructed drawings.

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Stuart Franks 

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Nicolas Schöeffer - La tour de Lumière

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The Frame House, by Omar Ghazal : socks-studio

“The Frame House is a reimagining of the Scouts’ contribution to the Festival of Britain. In celebrating of the 60th anniversary of the Festival of Britain, The Frame House proposes the reconstruction of a temporary park to demonstrate the ideals and benefits of Scouting to the nation. The Frame House thus sets out to provide a contemporary demonstration of the central principles of scouting in structures that allegorically engage with this historical event at the same time as presenting a vision of how architecture for children can realise the Scouts’ ideals.”

- Omar Ghazal

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Highlines of New York; Chelsea School of Aerial Arts by Adam Shapland via The Funambulist

The project seeks to explore an architecture that is responsive to the analytical exploration of narratives formulated through extractions of dynamic characteristics in an individual. The tightrope engages with a conventionally hidden or unseen landscape of the City, temporarily removing the user and viewer from spectacles of the ‘everyday’ and entering them into territories of fragile existence. The scheme exists as an academy for tightrope walkers and aerial artists with the intension to address the notion that architecture should be activated and defined by the events that happen within, around and on it.

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Minjeong An

Creative, diagrammatic self-portraits of the artist.

The full size versions of the works can be found on the artist’s website (although it seems to have taken a bit hit in traffic)

http://myartda.com/

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Massimo Morozzi, Cultural Center within the Emperor’s Castle, Prato, Italy 

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