[Image: Constructing with BeadBricks by Rizal Muslimin, courtesy of Brickstainable].The winners of this year's Brickstainable design competition were announced last week, and two of the technical award-winners are actually quite interesting. [Images: BeadBricks by Rizal Muslimin, courtesy of Brickstainable].I'm...
Pay-As-You-Go Urbanism
[Image: By San Rocco]. In December 2010, San Rocco, an Italian magazine dedicated to contemporary spatial culture, produced the two images seen here. They were created in response to a move by the Italian Minister of the Interior to extend an anti-hooliganism ban—originally intended as a way to protect...
Architectural Potential Energy
[Image: From the forthcoming Pamphlet Architecture #32 by Stasus].The forthcoming Pamphlet Architecture #32, on the theme of "resilience," will be authored by Matt Ozga-Lawn and James A. Craig of Stasus, a young design firm based in Edinburgh and London. [Images: From the forthcoming Pamphlet Architecture...
Castle of Shadows
[Image: Giovanni Fontana's 15th-century "castle of shadows," from a paper by Philippe Codognet]. In a book published nearly 600 years ago, in the year 1420, Venetian engineer Giovanni Fontana proposed a mechanical construction called the Castellum Umbrarum, or "castle of shadows." Philippe Codognet...
Computational Mythologies: An Interview with Zachary Mason
[Image: "Homer, the Classic Poets," by Gustave Doré, from Canto IV of The Inferno]. Novelist Zachary Mason's Lost Books of the Odyssey has been described by The New York Times as "dazzling... an ingeniously Borgesian novel that’s witty, playful, moving and tirelessly inventive." As Slate's John Swansburg...
Calling All Agents
Here's a quick rundown of some things you might want to attend, participate in, write for, keep your eye on, etc. 1) The discussion series Humans, Robots and War continues at 4pm this afternoon with "Digitizing the Laws of War" at USC: "A panel of guests including David Kaye of UCLA School of Law, Edwin...
Buy a Tube Station
For those of you in London, today was your last opportunity to stop by the old Shoreditch Tube Station for a scheduled viewing: the whole thing is up for sale, listed at £180,000. [Image: The old Shoreditch Tube station is for sale; image and property info courtesy of Andrews & Robertson]. "Situated...
Ruin, Space, and Shadow: An Interview with Mike Mignola
[Image: From a cover by Mike Mignola for Hellboy: The Storm, courtesy of Dark Horse Comics]. For half a decade now, I've been an avid fan of the work of Mike Mignola, creator of Hellboy, the B.P.R.D., and Abe Sapien, among many others, including, most recently, the new series Witchfinder and Baltimore....
