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Me & My Other Me

Miniature Calendar

Starting in 2011, Tatsuya Tanaka has been framing scenes of miniature bliss into diorama-esque photographs that have effortlessly captivated his audience for years. Using everyday items easily found around the house or within a grocery store, Tatsuya can create a lush forest just by using broccoli and bits of parsley. Want to recreate a peaceful afternoon on the golf course? Use a grass colored shoe sole and position some figurines on or around the cup.

2015.4.28_14.39.23_frame_0002 Made with code / Processing

Not sure what kind of architecture book you are looking for, but here are some that could be considered “basic reading”:

Anything by Francis D.K. Ching 

The Architecture of the City Aldo Rossi 

The Death and Life of Great American Cities Jane Jacobs 

Learning from Las Vegas: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form Robert Venturi 

The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius 

The Four Books of Architecture Andrea Palladio 

A History of Architecture: Settings and Rituals Spiro Kostof 

Modern Architecture Since 1900 William J.R. Curtis 

Topography, architecture and traffic routes give every city a unique structure.

These conditions create the typical and individual inner structure of a city. I didn’t only want to show these structures in the conventional way from above, but also including the exact three-dimensionality of topography and buildings - a real world visualisation. The OpenStreetMap data enabled me to visualize the satellite-based information using DEM Earth in Cinema 4D. The results are some extraordinary views of large capitals and small towns. 

Colosses Fabrice Fouillet

Statues are often idealized works of art. They are ideological, political or religious representations and attempt to turn their subjects into fascinating, eternal figures. Even when erected to keep alive the memory of a single person, a statue that lasts many generations will eventually establish itself as a symbol for the community.

Statues are even more influential when they are monumental. An edifice can be said to be monumental when it is unusual, extraordinary and physically imposing. It has to be abnormal — as exceptional as the political or religious power itself — and also inseparable from its symbolic aspects.

The series “Colosses” is a study of the landscapes that embrace monumental commemorative statues.