On Monday the 14th of May the 80+ Fourth Year (Masters of Architecture) students attended a site visit at Pittwater, north of Sydney. The field trip, organised by Michael Chapman, involved meeting the adjunct professors…
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James Grose is the speaker for open lecture this Wednesday May 09 to be held in the Science theatre from 1.00-2.00 pm. James Grose is the director of BVN Architecture and the designer of our…
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Corpus mechanicus- (Body Workshop) is a workshop for the body as an architectural manifestation will explore current and historical notions of consumerism, commodification, gender, sexuality, identity, subjective social aesthetics, beauty and its manipulation, the sublime, ethics, morality and taboo. Corpus … Continue reading →
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Our final year thesis projects made their first tentative steps today with the presentation of ’Site Analysis and Site Diagram’. Clearly, my commitment to blogging the progress of final year has already been tested in these first chaotic weeks, so this post will begin with a little background. The course requires each student to [...]
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(extract from SACRED MATTER: A MATERIALIST READING OF ANTONIN ARTAUD’S WORK by Léopold Lambert) In my introduction, I evoked Antonin Artaud’s influence on Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari in the elaboration of their book Anti-Oedipus. It might now be a … Continue reading →
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Hieronymus Bosch’s, The Garden of Earthly Delights depicts three panels containing inconceivable immensities, profane and sublime. A devil skating on the frozen lake of hell. A mutant heron-peacock with three heads. Naked riders in a frenetic circle; towers and fountains … Continue reading →
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“[W]e don’t want architecture to exclude everything that is disquieting. We want architecture to have more… Architecture should be cavernous, fiery, smooth, hard, angular, brutal, round, delicate, colorful, obscene, voluptuous, dreamy…
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Picture: Salo by Pier Paolo Pasolini (adaptation of Le Marquis de Sade’s 120 days of Sodom) Short article written by Léopold Lambert for Meredith Tenhoor’s Pratt seminar Food/Architecture/Urbanism/Biopolitics : Before the XVIIIth century, French (and by extension European) State’ sovereignty was applied on territories and … Continue reading →
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2001: A Space Odyssey: deals with elements of human evolution, technology, psychology and artificial intelligence with ambiguous imagery that is open ended to a point of approaching surrealism. This clip explores the characters manifestations as he moves up to the … Continue reading →
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Selected extracts from my own 4th year dissertation, ‘Urban Flaneuse: Sex and the City, Consumer culture and the metropolis’, in which I explored the demise and of the historical masculine flâneur and the rise of the contemporary feminine flâneuse within the urban fabric as a result of consumer … Continue reading →
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Descartes addresses this problem in the Meditations on First Philosophy by creating a division between mind and body. For example, in Meditation Six he explains the causes of bodily sensations—such as pain, pleasure, thirst, and hunger—in terms of the motions of material … Continue reading →
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Corpus mechanicus- a workshop for the body as an architectural manifestation will explore current and historical notions of consumerism, commodification, gender, sexuality, identity, subjective social aesthetics, beauty and its manipulation, the sublime, ethics, morality and taboo. Corpus mechanicus is a theoretical redefinition and exploration of a traditional … Continue reading →
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The University of Newcastle’s School of Architecture continued a thirty year tradition by publicly exhibiting the works of their final year Masters of Architecture students’ design projects. The 2011 exhibition named Resuscitate (referring to many…
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These are from my sketch book over the last couple of months. In no particular order
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There is a good interview with François Roche from R&Sie(n) that can be found here. In particular I found the following statements highly evocative and interesting to consider. FR Do we need to accept the economy of the devil to fight agains…
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Exhibition tonight at Padington Town Hall, 5:30 for one night only.Homebake on Saturday, looking forward to seeing Nick Cave.Picasso Exhibition on Sunday…
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