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With original music by Bob Perrone, the grandson of Art Deco master Rene Chambellan, and frequent collaborator with Lee Lawrie. This short film takes viewers inside my book "Lee Lawrie's Prairie Deco: History in Stone at the Nebraska State Capitol," and inside the heart of one of the most beautiful buildings in America and the world. This art deco palace is adorned with the sculpture of Lee Lawrie,(1877-1963). While Lawrie has works all over the United States, in Manhattan, Washington, DC, Chicago, and Los Angeles, his work on the Nebraska State Capitol marks the pinnacle of his 70 year career and was his largest sculptural commission of his life, entailing literally hundreds of architectural sculptures, and other architectural details. Enjoy the film. It runs just under ten minutes, and then go get the book. Google it, and you will find it!

Architecture firm In Square Lab, post production company MPC Digital and software development company Existential create 4th dimension motion recognitive shop window art installation project Urban Prairie is an intuitive and interactive motion recognitive installation conceived and designed collaboratively by London architecture firm ın square lab, post production and visual effects specialist MPC Digital and software developer Existential for the London Festival of Architecture 2010. Inspired by the rapid reduction of green spaces due to urbanisation of cities, Urban Prairie seeks to recreate a 1000sqm sea of prairie from a 5m wide shop window. Green spaces are known to have positive effects on the image and vitality of spaces and provide valuable resources and focus for the communities. Green spaces provide a respite from the built environment and give an opportunity for recreation; promote health, well-being and quality of life. In this project, the main challenge for the team was to create a system that allows for maintaining or even extending the notion of green spaces through intelligent use of design and technology via 4th dimension (time + space) design. Further to that, it is also hope that Urban Prairie can serve as a catalyst to inspire and provoke discussions and speculations about the concept of inside vs outside, here vs there and virtual vs realism. Using an array of optical sensors and arduino boards, urban prairie captures and comprehends the movements of ...

Columbus, Indiana is a city of around 40000 people located an hour south of Indianapolis. Columbus is exactly the kind of city you'd expect to find in the Midwest, except for one curious thing. The American Institute of Architects has ranked Columbus 6th in the nation for architectural innovation and design, right behind New York, Chicago, Boston, San Francisco and Washington, DC. The architectural richness of Columbus isn't the result of some visionary planning board. Nor are the zoning laws in Columbus different than those in most other Indiana cities. Columbus has fascinating architecture because in the 1950s industrialist and philanthropist J. Irwin Miller (of the Cummins Engine Company) decided that he wanted to live in a more visually interesting city. To this end, Miller offered to pay the architect's bill for any new public building in Columbus. Today, Columbus boasts more than 70 buildings designed by internationally celebrated architects like IM Pei, Eliel Saarinen, Eero Saarinen, Richard Meier and Harry Weese. One man's philanthropy sparked, as Bradley Brooks of the Indianapolis Museum of Art puts it, "an idea that is moving a community forward." Approximately 4 minutes. Produced by Paul Feine and Alex Manning. Go to reason.com downloadable versions and subscribe to ReasonTV's YouTube Channel to receive notification when new material goes live.