DRL FINAL JURY info

Design Research Lab [DRL] Phase I Final Public Jury
Monday 30 June and Tuesday 1 July, 10.00 to 6.00
Kenny Schachter ROVE Gallery, 33 Hoxton Square, London N1

Phase I students have explored urban globalisation and the diverse contingencies, constraints and opportunities of four sites located in New York, Moscow, São Paolo and Ras Al-Khaimah, UAE.
Four parallel design studio briefs by Yusuke Obuchi, Patrik Schumacher, Theodore Spyropoulos and Tom Verebes focused on the design of urban and architectural prototypical environments.

Invited critics include: Alisa Azndrasek, Frank Barkow, Dana Cuff, Winka Dubbeldam, Philippe Morel, Lars Spuybroek, Charles Jencks, Neil Spiller, Charles Walker.

[team] 1 2 3 [site] ras' al-khaimah, united arab emirates
claudia dorner [austria], sergio reyes [colombia], and myself [usa]

eleven

[days til review:11] . . . is this stuff clear? No. . . . I don't think so either!

F.

T-13 [days]

bigAL, big30

watch out, san diego!

H A P P Y 3 0 A L I S O N !
[insert vodka cocktail here]

photo: LITTLE SEQUOIA in her natural environment, sans theGHOSTBEAR5.

31 fathers' days

to the coolest DAD in the world:
H A P P Y F A T H E R S ' D A Y
love you lots and hope you have a great day. i miss you tons!

. . . so, which toy are you going to drive today?
. . . ok, 5 seconds, what are these pictures of, exactly?

june gloom

this month will probably hold few postings, as we are entering the final weeks of termIII, preparing for the big presentations June 30-July 1 [2008] of our preliminary design proposals. eeek. luckily, after July4th or so, we are technically on summer "break" which means i might be able to calm down a bit and perhaps do some laundry. :)

the sun has been shining more often here though, and i just realized that its June! time is, well, where is the time?!
hope you are all escaping any june gloom and enjoying the summer - wow, did i just say summer? Huh. That's strange.

june at the AA means people eat lunch outside . . . in the pavillion: cspacepavilion.blogspot.com/

baby's first "parametric tower"

I recently attended a 4-day workshop on the parametric (rule/relationship-based) software program called Digital Project. It is a version of Catia (typically in aerospace engineering for designing spaceships or something) developed by Gehry Technologies, which is a branch of Frank O. Gehry Associates (big-wig architect, Los Angeles). They have created their own version of the software program for architecture and it is amazing.

You draw everything based on relationships to other things, and develop a set of inputs that you can control to see variations and different scenarios without having to draw 9000 versions. It is very difficult, as it took us 3 hours just to draw 3 points and 2 lines, but at day four we had completed a building envelope, a shell structure, a floor slab system, and a detailed facade with responsive components. All of which had their own set of parameters you could adjust to see different results. Each part is linked to the other parts and updates itself according to any changes made. Its really powerful. I am not using it specifically for my project yet, but hope to incorporate it a lot after this next big review. [I'll try to put up some other images soon.] Go, go, skyscrapers.

It is crazy. http://www.gtwiki.org/

boo for no more booze

Yesterday was the last day of being able to legally drink on the tube and other buses and public transport in london. Boo. Thats dumb, huh.

Atleast i got to do it a few times . . . . and see, Craig: Kelley and I were legal - wuss! :) Now we are part of history!


Sad days of Londsay. Future visitors will not get this fun experience. (Though i didn't even know about it - apparently there was a huge party on the tube last night)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/boris_johnson/2060924/Carnage-during-Tube-alcohol-party.html