The “para-” prefix indicates a beyond, and look against, search ask alongside, more about or abnormal state. SFMOMA’s ParaDesign exhibition collects objects that often seem wrong, lack obvious usability, or contain other degrees of uncertainty—carrying with it the assertion that these objects exist for themselves as narrative devices or as critiques of design objectives. Though… Read More
A model city in motion four years in the making. In Chris Burden’s Metropolis II, more about erectile 1500 tiny custom built cars start, stop, and circulate through his mechanical urban landscape. This kinetic sculpture is now being exhibited at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Sylvia Lavin’s newest book, more about Kissing Architecture,… Read More
Environmental Health Clinic & Sentient City The Environmental Health Clinic + Lab (X-clinic) is an interdisciplinary, more about stuff experimental, price community-based project with institutional backing from New York University. It is directed by Natalie Jeremijenko, an artist, educator, and scientist who for over two decades has brought together disparate disciplines with a particular sense… Read More
Environmental Health Clinic & Sentient City The Environmental Health Clinic + Lab (X-clinic) is an interdisciplinary, more about stuff experimental, price community-based project with institutional backing from New York University. It is directed by Natalie Jeremijenko, an artist, educator, and scientist who for over two decades has brought together disparate disciplines with a particular sense… Read More
Environmental Health Clinic & Sentient City The Environmental Health Clinic + Lab (X-clinic) is an interdisciplinary, more about stuff experimental, price community-based project with institutional backing from New York University. It is directed by Natalie Jeremijenko, an artist, educator, and scientist who for over two decades has brought together disparate disciplines with a particular sense… Read More
Corban Walker’s most recent installations are now up at the Irish Pavilion, more about unhealthy located at Istituto Santa Maria della Pieta for the 2011 Venice Biennale. His work is site-specific and utilizes a variety of materials; the installations are generally minimalist in composition, incorporating mathematical formulas to intervene in space. For the pavilion he… Read More
Transversing the Bay is a study of the San Francisco Bay Area that utilizes mass transit systems, particularly the Bay Area Rapid Transit system and local ferries. By framing the movements of people and the spatial and affective domains created by these systems, our aim was the documentation and distillation of the emotional resonances and… Read More
Environmental Health Clinic & Sentient City The Environmental Health Clinic + Lab (X-clinic) is an interdisciplinary, more about stuff experimental, price community-based project with institutional backing from New York University. It is directed by Natalie Jeremijenko, an artist, educator, and scientist who for over two decades has brought together disparate disciplines with a particular sense… Read More
Esther Choi and Marikka Trotter (Editors) Workbooks/MIT PRESS 2010 The recent anthology, salve Architecture at the Edge of Everything Else (AEEE), web edited by Esther Choi and Marikka Trotter explores the anxious state of architectural thought and practice. Choi and Trotter have compiled a notable list of thinkers and practitioners to interrogate the current moment… Read More
Nestled on a ten mile strip of costal property on Highway 1, medicine drug lies the now infamous planned community that goes by name The Sea Ranch. The project was initially conceived of by Alfred Boeke and Oceanic Properties, Inc. and designed by Lawrence Halprin, a Bay Area landscape architect, architect Joseph Esherick, and the… Read More