Sound artist Rutger Zuydervelt and designer Gerco Hiddink have teamed up to organize a new audio project called Bridges. [Image: From Bridges]. The project asked a group of eight well-known improvisational musicians to "react" to four Dutch bridges (or, more accurately, to field recordings made on,...
Green Man
[Image: An unrelated photo by BLDGBLOG]. The other day I mentioned a poem by John Balaban, taken from his book Locusts at the Edge of Summer, which I discovered again during Hurricane Irene; but there's another poem in there with an incredible image that seems worth posting here. In it, Balaban describes...
Studio-X NYC
I am thrilled to say that I have moved east to New York City, leaving California after five unforgettable and productive years, to take on a new role as co-director, with Nicola Twilley, of Studio-X NYC at Columbia University. We both think this is an amazing opportunity to reengineer what it means...
Polygon Sublime
[Image: Via Jim Rossignol/Big Robot]."Having stripped everything out of game two, except the terrain," game developer Jim Rossignol recently tweeted, "we again are left with a geometric painterliness. I am actually happy just wandering around these spaces, discovering extraordinary formations and...
Fake Lake
[Image: A satellite view of the corporate water feature become roadway hazard thanks to a landscaping crew in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania].Out in the suburbs, where we've temporarily taken up shop on our way to New York City, the damage of Hurricane Irene has mostly been limited to large fallen...
Urban Hurricane
[Image: Photo by Chris Woebken, from his Flickr account].I'm sitting out the winds of Hurricane Irene in the suburbs of Philadelphia, where the basement of this house is starting to flood, a siren is going off somewhere, and the power has flickered off—and on, and off, and on—for the last hour,...
Farmland World
[Image: "Farmland World" by Design With Company (Allison Newmeyer and Stewart Hicks)]. One of the runners-up for the recent Animal Architecture Awards is also one of my favorites from the competition: "Farmland World" by Allison Newmeyer and Stewart Hicks of the Chicago-based Design With Company. The...
Animals in the Optoelectronic Metropolis
[Image: LEVEL 1 from "Theriomorphous Cyborg" by Simone Ferracina]. Last week, while I was lost in the process of moving east from Los Angeles to New York City, the Animal Architecture Awards were announced, a design competition for which I was proud to serve on the jury. I'll be posting at least two...
The Cloud
[Images: Assembling "Surface Tension" by Smout Allen, a room-sized kinetic device, hydrological model, and terrain computer commissioned by the Nevada Museum of Art for Landscape Futures: Instruments, Devices and Architectural Invention...
