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February 7, 2012 – 8:57 pm

an atlas of iphone landscapes

[MMG Century, in northwest Queensland -- the world's second-largest zinc mine, owned and operated by the Chinese metals conglomerate China MinMetal. MMG Century features prominently in the talk below.] 1 Note that if you are reading this indirectly, i.e. on Google Reader, you may not see the video below. 1. A conversation the other day reminded [...]

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January 13, 2012 – 1:00 pm

dredge @ studio-x nyc

We’re excited that we’ll have the opportunity in a couple weeks to do a live interview at Studio-X NYC: For the first LI@SX of 2012, Studio-X NYC is delighted to welcome Rob Holmes and Stephen Becker of Mammoth and Tim Maly of Quiet Babylon, three-quarters of the Dredge Research Collaborative (with Brett Milligan of Free [...]

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October 24, 2011 – 8:27 pm

soft landscapes

This week, I’ve organized a short (very short) lecture series for the students in my studio (well, the “Post-Natural Ecologies” half of the studio) at Virginia Tech’s Washington-Alexandria Architecture Center. Tuesday at 5:15, Fred Scharmen (sevensixfive/the Working Group on Adaptive Systems) will give a talk entitled “Soft Sites”, examining four sites on the Middle Branch [...]

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May 31, 2011 – 5:38 pm

visualizar ’11

[Nerea Calvillo's "In the Air" -- "a visualization project which aims to make visible the microscopic and invisible agents of Madrid´s air" -- Visualizar '08] A brief interruption to the flood-blogging (which will resume shortly, with more on 1927 and crevasses) to note that I’ll be speaking in Madrid at Visualizar ’11 “Understanding Infrastructures”.  The [...]

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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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July 28, 2010 – 6:00 am

foodprint: toronto

[Architect Christ Hardwicke, whose project "Farm City" is pictured above, is one of the diverse group of panelists assembled for Foodprint: Toronto.] Google Analytics tells me that Canadians make up the second largest portion of mammoth‘s readership and that, of you Canadians, approximately one-quarter are located in Toronto.  Neither of these facts are particularly surprising, [...]

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