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Crowdfunding: Transformed Truck To Take Art & Architecture on the Road

BCN RE.SET - Ephemeral architecture circuit in the street

United Colours or Streatham | Streatham, London | 22.06.2014 | op.x

WarkaWater is an inexpensive, easily-assembled structure that extracts fresh water from the air. It has the potential to save millions of lives. 

John F. Corkhill Jr., Extension to the Washington Monument, 1969

"A popular, vintage encyclopedia is processed to represent contradictory layers and logic of personal and public information. The images have been extracted from all twenty-five volumes of a 1953-56 Funk & Wagnall Encyclopedia and reconfigured as collages, unleashing the potentiality of images trapped by historical context. New political and psychological associations emerge in the black and white presentation that covers the walls"

Clever visual paraphrase of Emil Kaufmann’s Von Ledoux bis Le Corbusier (1933). Von Boulée bis Le Corbusier? Corbusier’s Ville Contemporaine (1922) inscribed in Boulée’s Cénotaphe à Newton (1784). (via Architecture in revolutionary times)

2012

Commenced towards the end of the 1980s, today the series of constructions counts almost 120 exemplars. The individual constructions do not have their own titles, rather they fall into four different groups: morphologies around the circle, morphologies of verticality, light structures and constructions for architecture. Each group is generated by a different logic, e.g. the circle-related constructions all count on the constant presence of a basic form, the verticality models all derive from the relentless study into the question of proportions, while the dominant theme in the light structures is the relationship between organism and environment, and constructions for architecture can all be applied to design conditions. 

nobrowpress commissioned me to do this poster to celebrate the opening of their new NY office.