SOILED No.6 Deathscrapers

Pleased to be included in the upcoming issue of SOILED ...

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SOILED - Issue No. 6 - Deathscrapers:

"I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens." - Woody Allen

Deathscrapers summons the architecture that surrounds the dearly departed. If Woody Allen’s aphorism generalizes a broad American apprehension for openly discussing matters of death, Deathscrapers is its architectural antidote and seeks to knock at death’s (literal) door to uncover issues of narrative, memory, and form. Deathscrapers spans all scales of spaces for the dead and the bereaved, from urns and caskets, to morgues and mortuaries, mausoleums and cemeteries, even enormous necropolises. Adolf Loos declared, “Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument.” Deathscrapers will purvey playful stories that are simultaneously as serious as the grave. How can architecture bring new life into rituals and environments for the dead? How might aesthetics participate in a new necropolitan culture? Is it productive to render the morbid more social? Akin to previous issues of SOILED, Deathscrapers welcomes ideas that might transcend their mortality on the printed page. Queue the requiem and warm up the hearse: are you ready to go?

SOILED is a periodical of architectural stories that makes a mess of the built environment and the politics of space. Our stories are unexpected, accessible, and they instigate mischief! This means a close and serious - and sometimes humorous - examination of the mundane and in-between spaces we inhabit or traverse on a daily basis; a license to boldly, creatively, and irreverently challenge conventional architectural interventions and interpretations. Rather than imagining what the world should be, SOILED delights in envisioning what the world could be. We believe that by intensifying the fictive and storytelling potential in architecture, we might engage a broader public in architectural ideas from discourse to action. (soiledzine.org)

Pre-order a printed copy for US delivery or international delivery. Deathscrapers will print towards the end of summer 2016.

 

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Exhibition @ NYCxDESIGN 2015

Very thankful for the opportunity to showcase an original design fiction concept, in collaboration with Oscar Salguero, called f.A.S.E (flavor Augmenting Scent Emitters) for the "Feed Me: Designers Addressing the Future of Nutrition" exhibit during the city-wide NYCxDESIGN 2015 event!

If you missed the exhibition from May 8th - 10th stay tuned for photos of the 3d-printed prototypes displayed during the event!

Thanks to GROUPHUG and NYCxDESIGN!!!

NYC Design Week 2015

 Excited to be exhibiting at this year's New York Design Week alongside other interesting and thought provoking projects.Details about our project will be released on the day of the exhibit.Updates to follow!http://nycxdesign.com/events/feed-me-2015…

 

Excited to be exhibiting at this year's New York Design Week alongside other interesting and thought provoking projects.

Details about our project will be released on the day of the exhibit.

Updates to follow!

http://nycxdesign.com/events/feed-me-2015-05-08/…

In collaboration with Oscar Salguero, NYC.

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Interview with Marjan Colletti for Arch2o

This is the first in a series of interviews which delve into the work and philosophy of a handful of contemporary architects who are actively re(de)fining not only architecture proper, but what it means to be an architect today and, perhaps, in the future.

“I believe that technology can act as a great prosthetic aid to transfer mental fluidity to design/material fluidity. However, what I endeavor to discuss in the book is that technology alone will not suffice. On the contrary, technology produces and is a product of innovation, but also, maybe most of all, laziness! Dynamism becomes vital; thus, one must not become dependent on technology and/or methodologies alone. Can this be learned? I think so – at least it can be experienced. One may still not get it. Can it be taught? Maybe. I see this as the most fundamental aspect of what/ the way I teach, whereby I prefer the term ‘coaching’ to ‘teaching’. In a sentence: Architecture begins where common sense ends.”

Architect-educator-author-researcher Marjan Colletti, co-founder of marcosandmarjan design limited in London, is currently University Professor and Head of the Institute for Experimental Architecture at the University of Innsbruck Austria; while also acting as Senior Lecturer, Unit 20 Master and Director of Computing at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. His personal work, the work of his students and of his studio marcosandmarjan have been widely published and exhibited world-wide.

Most recently he is the author of Digital Poetics. An Open Theory of Design-Research in Architecture, a monograph wherein he presents “an unconventional and original ‘humanistic’ theory of CAD”, further suggesting “that beyond the generation of innovative engineering forms, digital design has the potential to affect the wider complex cultural landscape of today in profound ways”. In parallel with his rigorous intellectual pursuit of Digital Poetics, his design and research projects continuously push the boundaries of digitality as it relates to architectural design and discourse; including projects as diverse as proposing a self-sufficient city (AgroPolis) along the Delta in Khataba, to a wall comprised of intricately milled cellular components (Algae-Cellunoi) which host 3d-printed vessels designed to cultivate a garden of liquid algae strains.

The interviewer, Zack Saunders (founder of ARCH[or]studio in the US and Arch2O contributing editor) takes this opportunity to speak with Marjan Colletti on teaching, the current/ future state of Architecture, digitality and sterility, his design methodologies, and his latest book. What follows is an interview, though the attempt is to do so with the etymological meaning of the word ‘interview’ in mind: ‘to glimpse’.

The full interview can be found here: www.arch2o.com/interview-with-marjan-colletti-arch2o/

2015.

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