sense of place LAB - laurie halsey brown

TRISKELION: STAR-SHAPED CONTAINER FOR PRESIDIO HABITATS

admin — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 20:34:40 +0000

San Francisco Architects Zoë Prillinger and Luke Ogrydziak, known for their progressive, modern designs that include new media technologies, have created a Presidio Habitats Exhibition Pavilion from repurposed shipping containers arranged at 120 degree angles around a central atrium.

The FOR-SITE Foundation in partnership with the Presidio Trust is presenting Presidio Habitats, a site-based exhibition created for the Presidio of San Francisco, a 1,491-acre National Historic Landmark and national park site.>>http://www.for-site.org/

MARIN COUNTY FAIR - Marin, CA

admin — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 19:28:00 +0000

2 buckets, 2 bales. / bright yellow striped tent shelters them. / They must feel our eyes.

HOUSES IN TRANSFORMATION

admin — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 19:27:26 +0000

“Houses in Transformation; Interventions in European Gentrification”
Editors: Jap Jan Berg, Tahl Kaminer, Marc Schoonderbeek, Joost Zonneveld

When we seek to revitalize deprived urban areas in Europe, the renewal of the built environment is not only the central theme: the demographic profile of the residents is also transformed. These processes of gentrification are at the heart of this book. Do they really improve the area? Which residents tend to benefit? And what is the role of art and culture in this development?

ASHES TO ASHES

admin — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 19:26:03 +0000

sky becomes ashes. / Iceland volcano settles. / land becomes ashes.

CYPRIEN GAILLARD PROJECT IN PUBLIC SPACE

admin — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 19:24:43 +0000

Stroom Den Haag presents the first solo exhibition in the Netherlands of the French artist Cyprien Gaillard. Intrigued by contemporary ruins and concerned by the rapid destruction of modernist architecture, Gaillard explores notions of state vandalism, gentrification and the picturesque. Gaillard includes a site-specific project which is a excavation of a World War II bunker currently buried in a hill overlooking the beach of Scheveningen.

PLACEHOLDERS

admin — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 19:22:38 +0000

idea of place. / 2D versus 3D home. / But something to touch.

PALASTINE @ LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA

admin — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 19:20:46 +0000

The first Palestinian participation in the Venice Biennale takes on a conceptual framework that embraces the Palestinian people questioning the disproportionate use of the media image of the nameless faces and voiceless people. Two of the art projects are collaborative interventions with diverse Palestinian communities whose members will travel to Venice.

The End-user Perspective

admin — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 21:25:13 +0000

“When you become the client, you realize how hard it is to be a client. Working on our own homes has given me a lot more empathy for the role of the client. When you live in your own projects… you get a heightened understanding of where things should go, and how to accommodate the human body. In my own designs, I emphasize views and vistas, both of other parts of the house and of the outside. Each view is constantly referring to something else, but it’s also telling you where you are.” – Lise de Vito

A Shift in ‘place’.

admin — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 03:42:22 +0000

Today is a good day to remember that in Haiti, nobody ever really dies. The many thousands who’ve had the breath crushed out of their bodies in the earthquake, and the thousands more who will not physically survive the aftermath, will undergo instead a translation of state, according to the precepts of Haitian Vodou, some form of which is practiced by much of the population. Spirits of the Haitian dead — sa nou pa we yo, those we don’t see — do not depart as in other religions but remain extremely close to the living, invisible but tangible, inhabiting a parallel universe on the other side of any mirror, beneath the surface of all water, just behind the veil that divides us from our dreams. - Madison Smartt Bell

Sparks Fly at Midnight - Wildforest Sanctuary, Anapolis CA

admin — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 21:50:22 +0000

trees leaning forward / to bathe in burning warmth. / twenty ten begins.