FORM+CODE book launch party this Saturday (9/4) in LA! · 09/02/2010
Saturday, September 4th from 5-7pm at the Telic Arts Exchange on 951 Chung King Road in Los Angeles, CA
From the Telic Arts Exchange website:
Three years ago (during The Fundraising Show) Casey Reas and Chandler McWilliams hosted a workshop called “Form+Code.” Now, Form+Code in Design, Art, and Architecture has been published by the Princeton Architectural Press and we’ll have a little book launch party to celebrate. Champagne and snacks will be served; books will be on hand; and there will be a toast at 6:30 to thank many of the book’s contributors who will be in attendance.
What is Form+Code?:
The newest volume in our Design Brief series Form+Code is a non-technical introduction to the history, theory, and practice of software in the arts. Organized into themes linked to aspects of code—repetition, transformation, parameters, visualization, and simulation—each of the book’s sections contains an essay, code samples, and numerous illustrations.
An accompanying website features code samples in various programming languages for the examples in the book. An ideal introductory text for digital design and media arts courses, this unique primer will also appeal to students and professionals looking for a survey of this exciting new area of artistic production.
STICKWORK in 9/13 issue of PEOPLE magazine! · 09/01/2010
“Stick housing proved disappointing for that one little pig. But Patrick Dougherty’s ingenious twig sculptures — he’s made more than 200 for sites around the world — can last years before disintegrating. Stickwork, captures their whimsical glory.”
— People
Documentary about Daniel "Plan of Chicago" Burnham on Labor Day! · 09/01/2010
On Monday, September 6th, PBS will air the documentary Make No Little Plans: Daniel Burnham and the American City. Check Local Listings to see when it is airing on your local PBS station. And while you’re at it, check out our Classic Reprint Plan of Chicago. This meticulous reprint of the Plan of Chicago reproduces all 142 plates from the original, 48 of which are in color.
"Checkerboard Conversations" series at AIA NY Center for Architecture features 3 PA PRESS authors! · 08/30/2010
From the AIANY website:
Join us for a series of films and conversations with Checkerboard Film’s featured architects. Conversations will be led by Suzanne Stephens, Deputy Editor, Architectural Record. All four events take place at the Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place.
Get tickets for one film, or register for all four!
Price per event:
Members: $15
Non-members: $25
Register
Film
Rick Joy: Interludes
Thursday, 09/16/2010, 6:30pm – 8:00pm
Rick Joy, an architect based in Tucson, Arizona, owes his reputation to his innovative residential designs that respond gracefully to their desert environment. Joy exploits natural and passive energy-saving techniques and unusual materials, such as rammed earth and rusting steel, to create striking architectural solutions for living in a hot, dry climate. In this film, Joy takes viewers through the Desert Nomad House, built in 2005, the Ventana Canyon Residence (2007), Tucson Mountain House (2001), and his first completed project in the Northeast, a house in Woodstock, Vermont (2009).
Color, 22 minutes
Book coming Spring 2011
Film
Studio Gang Architects: Aqua Tower
Thursday, 10/14/2010, 6:30pm – 8:00pm
Jeanne Gang, who started her architectural practice in Chicago in 1997, completed Aqua, an 82-story apartment tower, overlooking the city‚s Millennium Park in 2009. Already an icon on the city‚s skyline, the concrete floorplates take on a different contour at each level, with variously curved cantilevered balconies. In addition, Blair Kamin, the architectural critic of the Chicago Tribune, appears in the film to elucidate the impact Gang has had on the Chicago landscape.
Color, 27 minutes
Film
KieranTimberlake: Loblolly House (2007) Cellophane House (2008)
Thursday, 10/28/2010, 6:30pm – 8:00pm
KieranTimberlake, an architectural firm based in Philadelphia, is a recognized leader of the “green” architecture movement in the U.S. As this film illustrates, its founders, Stephen Kieran and James Timberlake, have been developing innovative means to combine sustainable design principles with off-site construction for the mass customization of houses. The firm‚s Loblolly House, built in the Chesapeake Bay area of Maryland in 2007, and the Cellophane House, a specially commissioned design, executed for an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art in 2008, serve as outstanding examples of the firm‚s research-based approach.
Color, 27 minutes
Twitter love from Burt's Bees! · 08/25/2010
9/15 FROM HERE TO THERE event at the New York Public Library · 08/23/2010
In March 2008 graphic designer Kris Harzinski founded the Hand Drawn Map Association. Fascinated by these accidental records of a moment in time, Harzinski soon amassed a wide variety of maps, ranging from simple directional maps, to maps of unusual or fictional places, including examples drawn by well-known historical figures such as Abraham Lincoln, Ernest Shackleton, and Alexander Calder.
On Wednesday, September 15th at 6:00 PM, Kris Harzinski along with the book contributors Will Haguhery and Matthew Rodriguez present a selection of these artifacts that tell stories of people around the world.
New York Public Library
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, NYC
FREE – Doors open at 5:30 p.m.
Copies of From Here to There: A Curious Collection from the Hand Drawn Map Association will be available for purchase and signing at the event.
TONIGHT on PBS: "Citizen Architect: Samuel Mockbee and the Spirit of the Rural Studio" · 08/23/2010
Citizen Architect airs tonight on PBS! Check your local listings!
According to one of our favorite blogs Unbeige:
Tune in to PBS later this month, when the network will air Citizen Architect: Samuel Mockbee and the Spirit of the Rural Studio, a documentary on the architect Samuel Mockbee (1944-2001) and his radical educational design/build program to create architecture that not only elevates the living standards of the rural poor but also provides “shelter for the soul” in Hale County, Alabama. Directed by Sam Wainright Douglas, a veteran filmmaker and Mockbee’s son-in-law, the hour-long film features frank interviews with the Rural Studio founder and his peers (including Peter Eisenman and Cameron Sinclair) while documenting the creation of a home for Alabama resident Jimmie Lee Matthews, a soul music aficionado known as Music Man. Check your local PBS listings for airdates and click here to watch the trailer.
Don’t forget to check out our best-selling books on Sam Mockbee and the Rural Studio:
Rural Studio : Samuel Mockbee and an Architecture of Decency and Proceed and Be Bold : Rural Studio After Samuel Mockbee are available from Princeton Architectural Press.
Time Out Chicago reviews MARINA CITY · 08/19/2010
“Their arguments for Marina City’s significance are so solid, however, that I hope Chicago gets around to granting it landmark status at last.”
Read the full review here!
TONIGHT: Artist’s Talk with Patrick Dougherty at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden! · 08/18/2010
From the website of the Brooklyn Botanical Garden:
Artist’s Talk on Wednesday, August 18
By Rebecca Bullene
Patrick Dougherty and his team of volunteers went back to work on the woven-wood sculpture today after a well-deserved break this past weekend. Several of the lairs are completed with only three left under construction and some finishing details left to be added. Dougherty anticipates that the sculpture will be completed by Saturday, August 21, so be sure to stop by this week if you want to see the work in progress.
Garden members will have an opportunity to attend an artist’s talk with Patrick Dougherty this week during the Members’ Summer Evening on Wednesday, August 18 at 7 p.m. Dougherty will discuss how his work was conceived and constructed as well as answer audience questions.
Click here for directions to the Brooklyn Botanical Carden.
Stickwork, Patrick Dougherty’s first monograph is available now from Princeton Architectural Press in both hardcover and paperback editions.
MAKE on BEE: "Princeton Architectural Press has done it again" · 08/17/2010
“Princeton Architectural Press has done it again, producing a book that is as beautiful and tactile as it is thought-provoking and educational.”
— Makezine.com