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Fog Bank is an installation investigating affective environments through multiple means: textural variation, light & shade, blurring, reflectivity, and varying opacity. The surface of the installation is composed of plastic tubes clustered together to form a surface derived from programmatic elements within the space. Together, the tubes create a highly animated effect, alternately shimmering with light or distorting it to create an atmosphere diffused throughout the space at once tangible yet ethereal. Fog Bank was designed and fabricated by 5th-year Cal Poly Architecture students in the Senior Thesis Design Studio "Affective Environments" taught by Eric Nulman. Studio: Aramis Arciga, Rachel Atmadja, Scot Bailey, Patrick Delorey, Chris DiSibio, Keith Houchin, Anthony Kallioinen, Matt Kendall, Eugene Kosgoron, Kristin Larson, Kai Liao, Matthew Moran, Ryan Nearman, Reid Nystrom, Alessandro Ortiz-Hurtado, Ryan Ouimette, James Ross, Monica Sterrett, Adam Terwall, and Allison Wasilewski.

Installation of 'Na Fáná Fuachtmhar', a new sculpture by Kevin O'Dwyer, artist in residence at the Sixth World Archaeological Congress at University College Dublin. With an excerpt from UCD Scholarcast. Na Fáná Fuachtmhar was inspired by the incised chevron motifs found inside the Megalithic Passage Tomb at Fourknocks, Co. Meath. The chevron motif, a symbol common to many cultures throughout the world dating from the Neolithic period, is suggestive of the W-shaped constellation, Cassiopeia, which would have been visible through the passage tomb between 3000BC and 2500BC. Na Fáná Fuachtmhar incorporates this ancient symbol into a series of strong architectural forms as a contemporary play on the great standing stones found in Neolithic settlements throughout Europe. The sculpture celebrates the interrelationship between art and archaeology explored during the Sixth World Archaeology Conference at University College Dublin in 2008.

Luminous walls: From stained glass windows via modernist wallwashing to pixelated planes Luminous walls belong to the essential repertoire of qualitative lighting design. With light, spaces can be defined and reinterpreted. Illuminated walls allow us to provide orientation and to perceive the form and dimension of space. Further, their glow and play of brilliants could bestow a space with an impressing scenography. The timeline reveals different lighting approaches: From backlit stained glass windows for spiritual enlightenment in the gothic period to modernist uniform wallwashing. Contemporary examples will open the view for pixelated colour changing planes based on LED technology. The movie with an overview of international projects covers lighting methods and techniques for luminous walls and their visual appearance. With a perception-orientated design perspective the designer could use vertical illuminance to create bright spaces and thereby also contribute to sustainable lighting solutions. Upcoming lecture: PLDC - Professional Lighting Design Convention, Madrid 20.10.2011 The overview of international projects from architects like Antonio Gaudi, Mies van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Kahn, Jean Nouvel, Peter Zumthor, Raffael Moneo, Toyo Ito, Christoph Ingenhoven and Karim Rashid or light artists as Peter Kogler and Erwin Redl covers various lighting methods and techniques for luminous walls and their visual appearance. Note: The image for 1814 needs to be ...

High speed view of a reconstruction of Oasis No.7 originally made by the Austrian architectural group, Haus-Rucker-Co, for the Documenta art fair in 1972. Oasis represented an escape from the everyday and a perception altering view of the surrounding world. The giant plastic sphere is accessed through an 'airlock' and furnished with palm trees and a hammock.

In this series we'll have a look at the architecture and urban design of the various towns and locations in Morrwind. Morrowind the the third Elder Scrolls game by Bethesda, of which Oblivion and the upcoming Skyrim are sequals. We start off in Seyda Neen, which is the first village a new player will encounter. Note the contrast between the Imperial architecture, which is loosely based on Medieval European architecture, and the local shacks, both in architectural style and apparent properity level.

From the 60's to nowadays: Using archival images and footage this video summarizes some of Cruz-Diez's most important architectural and monumental pieces. www.cruz-diez.com www.cruz-diezfoundation.org Special thanks to the Cruz-Diez Foundation and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston

Watch a video documenting the fabrication, assembly and installation of the new piece in the Azimuth coffee shop designed by Elena Manferdini, principal of a Los Angeles firm specializing in the cutting edge of computer-aided design of exotic forms. As a spring 2011 artist in residence at the College of Architecture, Manferdini led an elite student team in the design and fabrication of the colorful, floral-themed architectural installation. Students did the bulk of the fabrication work, which involved cutting and bending the sculpture's stylized aluminum flower petals using the CNC router, metal break and other tools available at the college's Digital Fabrication Facility, or Architecture Ranch, at the Texas A&M Riverside Campus. For more about the project, visit archone.tamu.edu/​college/​news/​newsletters/​spring2011/​stories/​azimuth_installation.html.

Learn more at: moma.org Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling is both a survey of the past, present and future of the prefabricated home and a building project on the Museum's vacant west lot. Not since the mid-century House in the Garden series has MoMA built occupiable model buildings to demonstrate contemporary issues to the public. The fives homes erected on the vacant west lot are designed by Kieran Timberlake Associates (Philadelphia); Jeremy Edmiston and Douglas Gauthier (New York); Horden Cherry Lee Architects / Haack + Höpfner Architects (London/Munich); Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Architecture and Planning / Associate Professor Lawrence Sass (Cambridge); and Oskar Leo Kaufmann (Dornbirn, Austria). The exhibition, and its accompanying Web site (www.moma.org/homedelivery), display the process of architectural design and production in equal measure with the actual end result.

Reef investigates the role emerging material technology can play in the sensitive reprogramming of architectural and public space. Shape Memory Alloys (SMAs), a category of metals that change shape according to temperature, offer the possibility of efficient, fluid movement without the mechanized motion of earlier technologies. Operating at a molecular level, this motion parallels that of plants and lower level organisms that are considered responsive but not conscious. A field of sunflowers as they track the sun across the sky or a reef covered with sea anemones, offer images of the type of responsive motion this technology affords. Its use in practical applications has been limited to the medical and aerospace fields as well as novelty toys - the super exclusive vs. the trite. Despite the potential of this technology, there have been few serious attempts to test its possibilities at the scale of architectural environments. Reef's unique exploration of technology shifts from the biomimetic to the biokinetic while liberating and extending architectures capacity to produce a sense of willfulness. www.urbanaarch.com www.radical-craft.com