Archive for December, 2006
Magazine for Critical Urbanism
I just stumbled upon a new magazine on urbanism, including lots of critical texts with well known good names. MONU (Magazine on Urbanism) calls for submissions of each issue via its website. However the last issue is announced for Winter 2006 but the site is not updated yet.
It is good to have such a magazine which focuses not only the single artifacts of the architectural production, but the overall field where architects are actually should play. One wishes such a magazine and its alikes reach a wider community.
No commentsSteven Holl’s self promotion of his project in Beijing
Steven Holl explains housing development project, Beijing Looped Hybrid. The project aims to create a city within a city rather than freestanding good looking towers. It is exciting to listen a project from its architects. The presentation has two sections. First one is below, the other one is on the rest of the post.
No commentsInvisible Architect of the “Nip Tuck”
Everyone watching the famous TV series Nip Tuck may realize that, most of the scenes are interior shots, even though the story takes place in a sunshine filled city like Miami. However, there is something attractive in those spaces. Every interior set is carefully designed into the smallest object. The heavy use of artificial light, the absence of direct sunlight and the struggle to avoid of the outside view is considerable. Apart from these points, the sterilized, hygienic use of the interior spaces is interesting. They are so well designed that it would be insane to use them. One can feel that none of the people in the story actually uses those spaces. Actually the players are like visitors in the rooms they are in. They do not use the props in the sets, they do not mess up with the furniture, everywhere is so tidy, clean, hygienic and thus so disturbing, so stressed. Thus it goes very well with the plot and the characters…
One considers who is behind of all of these. It was Ellen Brill, the architect who designed all of the interior sets of the Nip Tuck TV Series. And Nip Tuck is not the only one she took care of. She is also the interior set decorator of many TV series and films. More can be found on her neat web site.
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