[Video: A kind of deltaic 3D printer, printing variable landscapes into existence, from Riparian Rap].I thought I'd end the year with this quick video of some riverine landscape modeling exercises built through the constant back and forth washes and cross-flows of a self-resurfacing deltaic 3D-printer—and...
Paris Onion
[Image: Photo by Dsankt]. Dsankt of Sleepy City has posted a long and absurdly interesting write-up of his explorations over the years through the Paris Metro system, long after its doors have officially been closed. "As we haven't walked every section of tunnel nor checked every door," he points out,...
Blue Tape
[Image: Los Angeles seen from the 51st floor of City National Plaza, 13 December 2010]. This past week brought the autumn term to an end here in Los Angeles. For two days, students from the USC School of Architecture participated in an experimental final review called "Blue Tape," named after the blue...
QR Cinema, or: Machines Making Films For Machines
One of my students this fall—Jonathan Rennie, at the USC School of Architecture—has had his final project featured on Near Future Laboratory; the post is written by Julian Bleecker, who served as a guest critic for Jonathan's review. [Image: From a project by Jonathan Rennie, produced at the USC School...
Urban Archaeology of Collisions in the Sky
[Image: Photo by Allyn Baum for The New York Times].In a short but otherwise quite remarkable article in today's New York Times, we read about the barely visible traces of a plane crash that occurred 40 years ago in the skies above Park Slope, Brooklyn. As the article explains, there is "little to indicate...
