January – 2011 – mammoth // building nothing out of something

Monthly Archives: January 2011

January 27, 2011 – 6:00 am

infrastructural opportunism

Mammoth will be in New York tomorrow night — January 28th — presenting at the Storefront for Art and Architecture in an event tied to the recent release of Lateral Office/Infranetlab’s Pamphlet Architecture 30: MANIFESTO SERIES 02 INFRASTRUCTURAL OPPORTUNISM PAMPHLET ARCHITECTURE 30 + Storefront for Art and Architecture presents Manifesto Series 02: Infrastructural Opportunism showcasing […]

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January 22, 2011 – 6:00 am

fourth natures

“Fourth Natures” is an upcoming conference at the University of Waterloo School of Architecture, which sounds like it will be quite interesting: …landscape theorist John Dixon Hunt elucidate[d] three categories of landscape first defined during the Renaissance: ‘first nature’ being wilderness, ‘second nature’ being the cultivated landscape, and ‘third nature’ being the garden, a combination […]

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January 5, 2011 – 6:00 am

winter hiatus (polar night)

[Fantastic Norway‘s 2005 installation “Polar Night”, built in the Arctic town of Bodø.  A total of 40 daylight lamps — bulbs of the sort which are designed to simulate natural sunlight and used in therapy — were attached to fiberglass panels, lighting a public square during the polar night, and producing an event which attracted […]

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January 2, 2011 – 1:54 pm

watch patiently, with sound

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