12/20/2011
Nearly Human - Mathematics - A beautiful elsewhere
Mathematics: A Beautiful Elsewhere is a unique exhibition created by the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain with the aim of offering visitors, to use the mathematician Alexandre Grothendieck’s expression, “a sudden change of scenery.” The Fondation Cartier has opened its doors to the community of mathematicians and invited a number of artists to accompany them. They are the artisans and thinkers, the explorers and builders of this exhibition.
12/19/2011
Militaria - Castello di Rivoli
Castello di Rivoli
Arte Povera International
Curated by Germano Celant and Beatrice Merz
October 9, 2011- February 19, 2012
Militaria - Castelgrande di Bellinzona
Domus 750 June 1993Aurelio Galfetti- restoration of Castelgrande, Bellinzona. Francesco di Giorgio Martini.
Aurelio Galfetti: Castelgrande, Bellinzona
(in German)
Frank Werner, Aurelio Galfetti, Stefania Beretta
Ernst & Sohn, 1992 - 59 pages
The notion of "building in historical surroundings" gained a whole new meaning from Alexander Mitscherlich's 1965 book Die Unwirtlichkeit unserer Stadte, and the subject has lost none of its topicality today. The Ticino architectural scene is particularly interesting in this respect: it has attracted international attention since the sixties because of its programmatic tendency towards design rebellion.
Although Ticino architecture's considerable impact since then has come principally from new buildings, revitalization and conversion of historical architecture was always on a par with new building. Aurelio Galfetti is one of the leading lights of the Ticino scene, and his transformation of the ruined remains of the Castelgrande in Bellinzona into a contemporary museum and culture centre provides us with something like a provisional resume of decades of architectural reform effort. After a continuous series of typological corrections to Bellinzona's diffuse townscape, Galfetti was concerned mainly to sharpen public awareness of the genius loci and its history, but above all its future, when rebuilding the Castelgrande. These efforts produced what is without a doubt one of the most important conversion projects in recent building history since Carlo Scarpa's legendary work on the Castelvecchio in Verona.
Galfetti had neither restored nor conserved Bellinzona's "Acropolis". At the most -- as the Neapolitan architect Francesco Venezia would say -- he had joined pieces together to spaces in which light, objects and landscape hold silent communication. He was concerned in the first place to transform an extraordinarily damaged historical situation into an analogue reality that would make it able to speak again.
Alessandr
Castelgrande a Bellizona. Aurelio Galfetti
36 pp., ill. b.n. e colore
Questo progetto già oggetto di un ampio dibattito
di architett
di dare un esito formale al cambiamen
delicat
luogo (la roccia, le mura, l'acqua, il prato) donando loro un nuovo senso. Al punto che
questo lavoro appare come l'ultima delle trasforma
tale però da non precluder
Questo progetto già oggetto di un ampio dibattito
di architett
di dare un esito formale al cambiamen
delicat
luogo (la roccia, le mura, l'acqua, il prato) donando loro un nuovo senso. Al punto che
questo lavoro appare come l'ultima delle trasforma
tale però da non precluder
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Militaria - the Waterhouse
Chinese architects NHDRO have transformed this disused Japanese army headquarters in Shanghai into a hotel, maintaining the building’s stripped concrete and brick walls while adding a new Corten steel extension on the roof.
See the movie
See the complete story here
(from Dezeen)
see also on INTERNI
See the movie
See the complete story here
(from Dezeen)
see also on INTERNI
12/18/2011
Nearly Human - Elfoid
Japanese researchers, in collaboration with Osaka University professor Hiroshi Ishiguro have invented ELFOID, a mobile phone in shape of a human being.
The phone incorporates a speaker in the head of the device and a light-emitting diode in its chest which turns blue when the phone is in use and red when it is in standby mode.
The creepy elfoid handset is designed to add an element of realism to long-distance communication by recreating the physical presence of a remote user.
(from Designboom)
The phone incorporates a speaker in the head of the device and a light-emitting diode in its chest which turns blue when the phone is in use and red when it is in standby mode.
The creepy elfoid handset is designed to add an element of realism to long-distance communication by recreating the physical presence of a remote user.
(from Designboom)
12/14/2011
Animals: Chameleon
Wanderings through rural South Africa
Living the Bush
The men, of course, are free to take more than one wife, she explained. Though the women don’t like it, they must accept the practice. Mbali described a lot of pain, crying, and heartache, but if the man wants more than one wife, it is so. In traditional times, all the wives and children would live in the same compound with the man, but today it is acknowledged that there would be too much fighting between the women. The families live separately, and the man must divide his time between them. While the women must accept sharing their husbands, the men must ensure equality between their wives. “If she gets a watch, I get a watch,” Mbali said, “If you spend two nights with her, you spend two night with me.”
Living the Bush
The men, of course, are free to take more than one wife, she explained. Though the women don’t like it, they must accept the practice. Mbali described a lot of pain, crying, and heartache, but if the man wants more than one wife, it is so. In traditional times, all the wives and children would live in the same compound with the man, but today it is acknowledged that there would be too much fighting between the women. The families live separately, and the man must divide his time between them. While the women must accept sharing their husbands, the men must ensure equality between their wives. “If she gets a watch, I get a watch,” Mbali said, “If you spend two nights with her, you spend two night with me.”
12/13/2011
12/11/2011
Filip Dujardin, Fictional Landscape
Filip Dujardin
Untitled #21
Ink Jet Print on Archival Pearl Paper
61"x44"
Ink Jet Print on Archival Pearl Paper
61"x44"
12/10/2011
Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing? #1
Case Study House #22, Pierre Koenig, Los Angeles, California, 1960
Photo by Julius Schulman
12/09/2011
L'année dernière à Marienbad
L’année dernière à Marienbad
réalisé par Alain Resnais
Scénario: Alain Robbe-Grillet Photo: Sacha Vierney Musique: Francis Seyrig. Avec : Delphine Seyrig (A), Giorgio Albertazzi (X), Sascha Pitoëff (M), Françoise Bertin, Luce Garcia-Ville. 1h35. NB _ (1961)
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Le film décrit le rêve d'un homme qui aime une femme inaccessible. Il vient la chercher. Mais le rêve est aussi cauchemar : la femme ne se souvient plus de lui. Il essaie de l'atteindre. Lorsqu'il croit l'avoir fait, elle s'est déplacée sur une autre pointe du temps, un autre souvenir : il faut la convaincre à nouveau. De nouveaux cauchemars se dressent devant lui : est il sur que c'est elle qu'il aime ? Est-il sûr de l'avoir rencontré ? Mais oui, c'est elle qu'il aime. Il l'emporte dans sa nuit. Fin du rêve, avant celui de demain.
Sigmund Freud's Wilhelm Jensen's Gradiva
Sigmund Freud, "Delusion and Dream"
"Freud's long essay, an analysis of the German novelist Wilhelm Jensen's story Gradiva, is his first work to deal explicitly and systematically with literature and aesthetics, although he had commented at some length on Oedipus Rex and Hamlet in The Interpretation of Dreams (1900). In asserting that dreams have meaning, psychoanalysts are aligned with the ancients, a 'superstitious' public and creative writers. Through the close analysis of a story that Jensen termed a 'Pompeiian phantasy', Freud considers 'the class of dreams that have never been dreamt at all--dreams created by imaginative writers and ascribed to invented characters in the course of a story.'"--Scott Brewster, The University of Salford
12/05/2011
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