Ant Farm Media Van v.08 (Time Capsule) Update: Life Without Buildings Interviews Ant Farm
[The Ant Farm Media Van v.08 in situ at SFMOMA[ For the past few months, Life WIthout Buildings has been following the retrofitting of the Ant Farm Media Van v.08 (Time Capsule), on view as part of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art exhibition The Art of Participation: 1950 to Now. Life Without Buildings [...]
A Game of Light, Sound, and Space
What is Auditorium? Its creators describe it beautifully (and simply) as a sort of precocious children’s game: “Auditorium is about the process of discovery and play. There are no right or wrong answers; there are many ways to solve every puzzle.” Deceptively simple, Auditorium is a game of light, sound, space, and the manipulation of [...]
The Prefabricated Lunar Architecture of the Saturn V Rocket
[image via the NYT] Extraterrestrial architecture has been on my mind more than usual lately, as I’m currently enthralled by Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars Trilogy and its incredibly well-research speculations on how humans might terraform and build on Mars. The almost unimaginable scale of the martian landscape yields unique architectural responses brought about by both [...]
Considering an Alternate San Francisco
[image via Memory Alpha] While thinking about the two very different issues of starship architecture and San Francisco’s Presidio last month, blogger Telstar Logistics reminded me of our “duty to preserve the Presidio so future generations may use it as the site for Star Fleet Academy.” How could I have neglected to mention this earlier! [...]
Links Without Buildings – 16 January
_ Above: the most amazingly surreal photo I’ve seen of the Hudson River plane crash. A plane sinks into (or emerges from?) a river in front of a generic skyline when three dozen people suddenly discover they can walk on water. It’s such a curious, modern, almost mythical image – and taken from an iPhone! [...]
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