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Digital – Biodigital

May 3, 2012

Course, Design, Digital, Ecological, Technology

A diagram for a class I give at l’ESA on digital architecture based on the teaching of Antoine Picon who writes that digital culture caused architecture to enter a crisis of scale and tectonic and that architecture is seeing a renewal of ornament [1]. The ornament versus cosmetic argument comes from a text by Jeffrey Kipnis [2]. My interest in mobility and ecology leads me to believe that architecture is actually going beyond ornament, and that we have integrated to our digital manipulations molecular scale and structure. This is what constitute biodigital architecture. You see how both are linked. To be continued!

[1] Antoine Picon, Culture numérique et architecture – une introduction (Birkhäuser, 2010)
[2] Jeffrey Kipnis, “The Cunning of Cosmetics,” El Croquis 84 (1997): 22 – 28

What is design?

March 21, 2012

Design

« Pour nous, le design n’est pas l’apanage des designers, mais il s’étend à tous les concepteurs, créateurs qui appliquent une logique d’innovation itérative, transformatrice, centrée sur l’utilisateur, avec une haute exigence de compréhension et d’esthétique des productions. [...] Nous partageons l’avis de ceux qui pensent que le design, plus qu’un style, est une façon d’aborder les projets dans une démarche méthodologique, au croisement de la créativité et de la conception industrielle »

– Romain Thévenet, chargé de mission design à la 27ème région. La 27ème Région, labo de transformation publique, Design des politiques publiques (La documentation Française, 2010) : p. 11

I hope you will devour this book, as if a pig.

February 29, 2012

Design, Inspiration, Mobility

A neo-nomadic way of ‘consuming’ a book:

“What if, like the Invisible Sandwich, Re:CP is an intelligent carpet-bag of opinions, views, comparisons, open-discussions and doubts? Then the importance of identifying with its intentions and appetites should be replaced by the reader’s using it with constructive greed as another tool with which to turn his own mind. It contains in a consumable form, a mix of ideas and images, some of which are new, and some of which I have seen and thought of before. Now they can be used, in which ever order you choose and at your own frequency.
I hope you will devour this book, as if a pig.”

Cedric Price, Re:CP (Birkhäuser, 2003): p. 13

Course Spring 2012

February 9, 2012

Course, Design, Technology, Urbanism

Intitulé du cours que je vais enseigner à l’ESA ce prochain semestre.

PIGS in 3D

January 16, 2012

Design, Ecological, Lecture, Mobility, Technology, Urbanism

PIGS stands for People, Information, Goods and Spaces… Preparing two lectures (it’s all in the book! Read it :-) that will happen at the Ecole Spéciale d’Architecture (ESA) in Paris, France – Architecture des milieux post-master (end of January) and Tokyo Denki University, Japan (mid February). The image above is an avant-goût. More details will come. Come say hello!

Image 1 _ Etienne-Jules Maray, Saut de l’homme en blanc, Chronophotographie sur plaque fixe, vers 1887 © Couval/musée Marey-Beaune

Image 2 _ May 1941. “ Dymaxion house, metal, adapted corn bin, built by Butler Brothers, Kansas City. Designed and promoted by R. Buckminster Fuller.” Medium format negative by Marion Post Wolcott.

Image 3 _ A random avatar picked for its visual quality.

Image 4 _ The Hug Shirt by Cute Circuit.

Image 5 _ Cécile de Cassagnac, Chose à l’anneau, 2009, aquarelle et encre sur papier 76 x 58 cm

Image 6 _ Cedric Price, Generator, 1976

—neo-nomad

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