I first saw Jimenez Lai‘s work when it was presented at Materials & Applications in LA. Finally he’s put together a website so I thought I’d cover 2 recent pieces of his work. Jimenez describes his work as an … Read More
It’s that time of the year and the Bartlett Summer Show begins today. Over 450 students are showing innovative drawings, models, devices, texts, animations and installations. I find it usually takes a few visits to absorb everything.
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I don’t usually advertise jobs on the blog but this is an opportunity to work with the Bartlett Interactive Architecture Workshop! Its a 2 year position and available for the right candidate at £22K PA plus £4K benefits. You need … Read More
“Body Paint” by Mehmet Akten made using openFrameworks.
InteractiveArchitecture.org is pleased to announce a free public OpenFrameworks Workshop on 13th – 14th June 2009 lead by Mehmet Akten, Marek Bereza and Joel Gethin Lewis and hosted by University College … Read More
Interactive Architecture is evolving after 4 years of me writing some 388 articles on my own. I’ve invited Lighting Designer Ben Kreukniet from United Visual Artists & Interaction Designer Paul Skinner from Digit to contribute to the blog as … Read More
Coop Himmelblau was founded in 1968 by architects Wolf D. Prix, Helmut Swiczinsky and Rainer Michael Holzer. In its early days, the firm was based in Vienna, but moved to Los Angeles in the 1980’s. Their early experimental works … Read More
When the groundbreaking Prada store by Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas opened in New York’s SoHo neighborhood in 2001, the concept of retail design was forever changed. Now, less than a decade later, the Pritzker Prize-winning architect and the … Read More
Another great project by LAb[au], “fLUX binary waves” is an urban and cybernetic installation based on the measuring of infrastructural ( passengers, cars…) and communicational ( electromagnetic fields produced by mobile phones, radio…) flows and their transposition into luminous, … Read More
Materials & Applications is a research center that I’ve written about a couple of times because of the wonderful large scale installations that are built there every year. It is a residential space “dedicated to pushing new and underused … Read More
Installation artist Shih Chieh Huang transforms spaces with everyday objects. His most recent project “EX-I-09” currently on show at the Beall Center for Art + Technology focuses on exploring the unusual evolutionary adaptations undertaken by creatures that reside in … Read More