Cloudy Dunes. When Friedman meets Bucky on Air-Port-City

[Tomas Saraceno at MACRO, Roma _ 25 Giugno - 6 Novembre 2011]

"I have summarized my discovery of the option of humanity to become omnieconomically and sustainably successful on our planet while phasing out forever all use of fossil fuels and atomic energy generation other than the Sun. I have presented my plan for using our increasing technical ability to construct high-voltage, superconductive transmission lines and implement an around-the-world electrical energy grid integrating the daytime and nighttime hemispheres, thus swiftly increasing the operating capacity of the world's electrical energy system and, concomitantly, living standard in an unprecedented feat of international cooperation."

R. Buckminster Fuller. Cosmosgraphy, 1992

Yona Friedman. Space Chain, 1959

http://en.macro.roma.museum/

Living in the digital ecosystem - MIT News Office

Living in the digital ecosystem - MIT News Office

great builders!

sceliphron caementarium

mud dauber's nest perfect sponge structure 

a straw structure nest

section of straw nest's capsules

Panacea

Saint Green

…This is not another greenish cant! STAR strategies+architecture unmasks hypocrisy behind sustainability fever, scoffing at the most worshipped architecture's sacred cow.

So because  the guiltier we feel, the greener we try,  there's something irrevent that emerges from a sustainable Cenotaph and an eco-Pantheon, the greener temples ever!
And it goes even more twisted when it comes to Auschwitz camp's houses graciously shrouded with the greenest ivy!
The Green is the common lie, the secret consensus, the perfect crime...

Green has the capacity of reducing all that matters to one single problem, and one single solution: green!
Don't  you feel reassured looking at a green Monumento Continuo? well, if you felt prudish before the naked body of architecture, keep calm: now it's dressed in green! Polite, correct and sustainable…
Green is the new black!

Finally O'Mighty Green will save us all. Even has the power to redeem pornography…so, here comes Green Porno! Isabella Rossellini's sexy short documentaries series…funny and sultry with a twist of surreal.

http://st-ar.nl/o-mighty-green-summary/
http://www.sundancechannel.com/greenporno/

PNEUMA / Justice Palace /Charles Kaisin

world's species

Ingo Gunther, worlprocessor catalog 1988-2005

[This is how space begins, with words only, signs traced on the blank page. To describe space: to name it, to trace it, like those portolano-makers who saturated the coastlines with the names of harbours, the names of capes, the names of inlets, until in the end the land was only separated from the sea by a continuous ribbon of text. Is the aleph, that place in Borges from which the entire world is visible simultaneously, anything other than an alphabet?]

 G.Perec, Species of Spaces

[D].elaunay dress by Continuum Fashion

"The future of fashion, and the future of consumer products in general, lies not only in more advanced technologies and materials, but also in reevaluating the very infrastructure of design, manufacture, and retail. By blending rapid fabrication, interactive software, and the accessibility of the web, we can let individuals participate directly in the design and production process. 
In short, the "D" collection is actually a piece of software. The D.dress app lets you draw a dress, turns it into a 3D model, and exports a cutting pattern to make the real dress, sized to your measurements. A laser cutter or plotter cuts the pattern out of fabric, which is then sewn into the dress. All the designs are unified around the theme of the little black dress, and the triangulation used in the software. This allows basically everyone to create their own innovative dress design."

Lo-res models created using D.dress application 

http://www.continuumfashion.com/