veer iphone wallpapers

I’m a big fan of Veer’s catalogues and mailings, their graphic design and fonts are always so well meshed and on-target.

more at http://ideas.veer.com/wallpaper

genetic algorithms in architecture

steve fuchs’ work done with m.i.t./the a.a.’s genr8 program using genetic algorithms.

buildings changing before your eyes

this volkswagen tiguan ad blows my mind! (click youtube video below to play) i can’t stop watching it!

the buildings, sidewalks, cobblestones, pavement, everything in this city change in real time as the camera pans through…

from the vancouver firm embassy visual effects.

fractals in african villages

Image courtesy of the American Geographic Institute

Ron Eglash gives an amazing TED talk about fractals found in African villages. He debunks a couple of widely held prejudices. One, that all natives would design with fractals. This isn’t true, because African natives are the only ones that build their villages in the fractal form. The other, that these fractals are based solely on intuition. Many are algorithmic and intentional, such as in cloth designs and even in divination rituals.

Image courtesy of Rajah on TechRepublic, created using Apophysis

These ideas of self-organization are in the brain, in ecological sustainability, the aids virus, capitalism… artists today are using fractals to generate incredible digital pieces. When will an architect design a building using fractals?

The fractal villages he talks about are below:

producing buildings with 3d printers

Lattice Archipelogics, from Servo design

David Erdman last week gave a talk about his work and a few of the overarching themes in his current practice David Clovers, and his previous one, Servo. The three most important were: designing with the computer, making complex forms using machinery, and modularity.

Dark Places exhibition at the Santa Monica Museum of Art, photograph from e-flux

Nike Geneology of Speed exhibition, photograph from AIGA Design Archives

It makes me wonder, will we one day print off our houses in 3d printers? Will building a house be as simple as shipping the large printer anywhere around the city, and printing off the custom-designed building?

Already, architects such as Francois Roche from R&Sie(n) have proposed entire museums built using CNC milling machines. This Swiss Ice Museum will be constructed on site, slice-by-slice, with a special 5-axis CNC machine that can work a 5 x 40 meter area.

Swiss Ice Museum, Image courtesy of R&Sie(n) studios

It’s only a matter of time before the most bizarre creations that can be dreamed up with the click of a mouse are available for order over the internet!

More:

David Erdman’s Columbia University Thesis

comparing dvd and hd versions of lord of the rings

screenshots comparing the difference in quality between dvd and hd versions of the lord of the rings.

huge difference.

minority report DIY interfaces!

Johnny Lee from the Human-Computer Interaction Institute has an amazing site with inventions ranging from foldable digital screens to virtual reality sensors and minority report-like finger tracking systems made from nintendo wii parts!

Foldable digital computer screens

VR display made from nintendo wii parts

the architect’s music video

Two amazing/hilarious music videos by japanese company groovisions done in the drawing conventions of the plan and axonometric!

don’t you know, by fantastic plastic machine

rodeo machine, by halfby

minority report gesture interface

A giant interactive scanner/table, the Blue Eye Table was created in the labs of the Eindhoven University of Technology. Once any object is placed on the table and you push a button, the camera takes a quick snapshot and it can then be manipulated on the gesture-based interface in a minority report-like manner.
via open media bar and engadget

More:

Urban-ism: Make your own virtual reality interface with your wii remote

Pier 27 Condo Ad

This video is so compelling that, to borrow one of my professor’s phrases, it’s weeping quality. If I didn’t know that this is just one of the many Toronto developments messing up the city’s plans for a great waterfront, I’d be sold within the first 5 seconds.

I’m speechless. Good job, Architects Alliance.