[Image: A Starfish site, like a pyromaniac's version of Archigram, via the St. Margaret's Community Website; view larger]. A few other things that will probably come up this evening at the Architectural Association, in the context of the British Exploratory Land Archive project, are the so-called "Starfish...
Ice Age Aerial
[Image: Photo: The "cemetery and church at Teampull Eion, Isle of Lewis," courtesy of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland]. One of many things I was excited to discover while working on the British Exploratory Land Archive project, and while getting ready for...
Floating Cities and Site Surveys
[Image: Photo by Mark Smout of a photo by Mark Smout, for the British Exploratory Land Archive]. I'm delighted to say that work originally produced for the British Pavilion at last summer's Venice Biennale will go on display this week at the Royal Institute of British Architects in London, beginning...
The Fifth Wall
[Image: Green screen; image via Geek Magazine]. Earlier this week, Petro Vlahos, described by the BBC as "the pioneer of blue- and green-screen systems" in cinema, passed away. Vlahos's highly specific recoloring of certain surfaces in the everyday built environment allowed "filmmakers to superimpose...
Optical Calibration Targets
[Image: "Three tri-bar targets remaining at Cuddeback Lake... the flat surfaces are peeling, crumbling and sprouting, producing dimensionality, and relief." Photo by and courtesy of the Center for Land Use Interpretation]. "There are dozens of aerial photo calibration targets across the USA," the Center...
Fault Wall
With my eyes on all things fault-related these days, as we're now in the third week of the San Andreas Fault National Park studio up at Columbia, I was interested in a brief moment from poet Simon Armitage's new memoir, Walking Home. [Image: Hadrian's Wall (not the wall described below) on the Whin...
Rock Type
[Image: Recording a landscape; photo courtesy of Jan Magne Gjerde, via Past Horizons Archaeology]. Last winter, Past Horizons Archaeology ran some remarkable photos from a site in NW Russia, close to the border with Norway, where more than a thousands petroglyphs have been discovered carved into the...
Caustic Engineering
New milling techniques applied to glass and plexiglass panels could be used to "create windows that are also cryptic projectors, summoning ghostly images from sunlight." [Image: A piece of milled plexiglass acting as a projecting lens; via the Computer Graphics and Geometry Lab at the École Polytechnique...
Soft Launch
The long-awaited second installment of Bracket, a co-publication of Archinect, InfraNet Lab, and ACTAR, is finally here. The new issue is themed around "soft systems" in architecture and landscape design, or "systems, networks and technologies that are responsive, adaptable, scalable, non-linear, and...
