ASD Party

On the 16th of June, we went to an exclusive opening ‘intended to be a quick snapshot of work in progress’,
featuring a couple of the PG design studios from ASD and Sir John Cass Faculty of Art, Media & Design.
There are many excellent works that can inspired us as an architecture student.

Music and Architecture 2

The existence of music as part of our daily routine.The places we go, the steps we take..Making architecture more fun and interactive thereby allowing people to befriend and relate to the spaces/construction around, rather than concidering them nothing more than still blocks.

You Fade To Light

In 2009 rAndom International was commissioned by the Philips Lumiblade team to create an interactive light installation. You Fade To Light captures the unique qualities inherent to their revolutionary new OLEDs.

Lumiblade OLEDs are large area diffuse light sources made from extremely thin glass and feature a perfect mirror finish. OLEDs are the closest to the temperature of natural light.

“You Fade To Light” by rAndom International allows the audience to engage with the light itself intuitively and in a physical way. With custom software developed by designer Chris O’Shea, it has been built in London with several hundred unique OLEDs from the world’s first-ever production line for OLED lighting at Philips in Aachen, Germany.

 

Installation & Art Direction by
rAndom International

Choreography
Laïla Diallo in collaboration with Khamlane Halsackda

Performance
Laïla Diallo and Khamlane Halsackda

Film Production & Director of Photography
Mark Purnell at Hogarth Worldwide

about rAndom International

rAndom international have won prestigious design awards such as the iF Design Award 2005 and 2006, the Wallpaper* Design Award 2006 as well as the Creative Futures Award 2005. In November 2007, The Observer placed rAndom within the top ten of creative talent in UK Art and Design. Their tape collection is part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art and a selection of their work has been shown at the V&A in November and January 2007, and last year at the Tate Modern in May and at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden in September 2008. In 2009 they are part of the “Telling Tales” and “Decode” exhibitions at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, and were awarded an honourable mention for their acclaimed “Audience” installation at the Prix Ars Electronica in Linz / Austria. rAndom International are working in studios in London and Berlin.

 

I.M. Pei Talks About Louis Kahn

This is clip from the documentary called “My Architect”.

Architecture and Music

Architecture is Art Festival

Architecture is Art Festival is an art festival with architecture as the central topic.

Hong Kong Cultural Centre
1 / 9 – 18 / 10 / 2009

Artistic Director: Mathias Woo
Presenter: Zuni Icosahedron
Co-organisers:
School of Architecture, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong Institute for Contemporary Culture
People Mountain People Sea
Design and Cultural Studies Workshop
City Pictorial
Offical Homepage: www.aiaf.hk

Message from the director Mathias Woo:

“We live amongst architecture, but our understanding of architecture always remains in the economic dimension. The essence of architecture is not economy, but art. Architecture is everywhere, in every aspect of our world of the senses: sounds, colours, smells, lights and the air. Architecture has always been considered as art in Chinese and Western traditions; and has created various aesthetic systems for spaces. Both the Chinese Siheyuan or quadrangles and the Western gothic churches use architectural spaces to draw relationships between men, heaven and earth. However, with the globalisation of capitalism in the last decades, under the environment of our economy being dominated by the market, architecture all over the world has become more integrated, serving for economic benefits only, and focusing solely on monetary returns.

Architecture should only be art, and nothing else, just as cinema should only be art. Economic benefits should have evolved out of artistic effects; but now the nature of architecture is distorted by the market. If the true nature of architecture is lost, and architecture is no longer art, then architecture is no longer architecture. What we are left with is luxury apartments and properties for sale and speculation.

What is the meaning of architecture for the human race, without the art of architecture? What is the meaning of architecture when architecture does not evolve out of art?

Architecture is Art Festival will re-examine architecture from an artistic point of view, manifesting various artistic possibilities of architecture with different art forms.

In the Architetcure is Art Festival the most interesting part is the model showing the new development project of Hogn Kong West Kowloon. The model didn’t only show the changes of the area but also allowing visitors to leave comments and ideas to improve the development project.

The Life and Times of Louis I. Kahan

Corbu Excerpt

 The performance is based on the life and work of the Swiss born architecture pioneer Le Corbusier.

Looking For Mies Excrept

“Looking for Mies” is a multi-media architectural music theatre about the life and works of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, using theatre space to explore the different theories and concepts of architecture by integrating digital arts, sound, music and installation to generate a new form of theatre experiment. It is a performance experimenting Mies’ ideas in relations to theatre space and the creativities of electronic music and multi-media installation.

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