[Image: From Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo by Nicholas de Monchaux]. Nicholas de Monchaux is an architect, historian, and educator based in Berkeley, California. His work spans a huge range of topics and scales, as his new and utterly fascinating book, Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo, makes clear. From...
Infrastructural Opportunism
[Image: From Coupling: Strategies for Infrastructural Opportunism by Lateral Office/InfraNet Lab].I've long been a fan of the Pamphlet Architecture series; in fact, going all the way back to the fall of 1997, my own interest in architecture was more or less reinvigorated—leading, by way of a long chain...
Stealth Objects and Scanning Mist
The London-based architectural group ScanLAB—founded by Matthew Shaw and William Trossell—has been doing some fascinating work with laser scanners. Here are three of their recent projects.1) Scanning Mist. Shaw and Trossell "thought it might be interesting to see if the scanner could detect smoke and...
Earthquake Sounds, Tsunami Rocks, Future Trenches
[Image: Photo by Ko Sasaki, courtesy of the New York Times].1) "This webpage contains earthquake 'sounds' created from seismic recordings around the world generated by the 2011/03/11 Mw9.0 Tohoku, Japan earthquake. They provide a unique way for us to listen to the vibration of the Earth that is otherwise...
