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New directions for young architects: ENTERTAINMENT

August 21, 2009

The new directions that I am looking at revolve around the idea of simulation. My last post looked at how construction and fabrication technologies are used to simulate the elements of building construction and use. In entertainment design the elements of space are a means to a different end – the simulation of experience. As [...]

Driftwood Pavilion at the Architectural Association

July 8, 2009

The first I ever heard of the AA was in a description of a summer installation that stuck out of one of the school’s front windows, crept along the facade and then went in another window. I believe it was from 1993 or thereabouts. I never saw it myself but it may have inspired Thomas Heatherwick’s later Harvey [...]