The Spaces Of Literature

Martha Markopoulou graduated Masters in Architectural Design from the Bartlett with distinction.


Martha Markopoulou's research project focuses on the inquiry of the possible relations between language and architecture and it is based on the novel "Salammbo" by Gustave Flaubert (1862). It is research on how an architectural system could embody a novel's narrative and syntax and how we could construct a physical reality out it. It is an attempt to conceive architecture as the physical body of a "fluid text". The project consists of a series of softly oscillating devices that translate in space and time the conditions found in the narrative, concerning points of view, change of direction, speed, perspective and scale. The barbaric aesthetic aims to reveal the exotic beauty that exists Salammbo's world of literature.






http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/otherhostedsites/avatar/markopoulou.html

Junk Space

Below is a link to Rem Koolhaas' Junk Space aritcle that was discussed during last weeks tutorials.

www.johnstuartarchitecture.com/Spring_2009_Video_Readings_files/Koolhaas%20Junkspace.pdf

Office for Submissive Architecture

James i thought you may find this project useful,

www.osa-online.net/de/flavours/up/intact/a/index.htm

The project consisted of three interventions on an unused site in London, similar to the site you've been looking at.

Metacity Datatown

For anyone that might find it useful MVRDV's Metacity Datatown is available to view in its entirety on line within google books at http://books.google.com/books?id=I-DlCsZctYgC&dq=metacity+datatown&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=lua-nru6W_&sig=mkKKsFHmXRfKYzW9PAAYRHcA2hs&hl=en&

FIRST WORKS: EMERGING ARCHITECTURAL EXPERIMENTATION OF THE 1960s &1970s
Architectural Association Gallery & Front Members’ Room

34-36 Bedford Square

London WC1B 3ES
7 November–12 December 2009,

11 January–13 February 2010

'The mask one wears when entering a profession becomes one's authentic face'
Friedrich Nietzsche

'What is a beginning?'
Edward Said

During a tumultuous period in the 1960s and 70s, new generations of architects began careers amidst a period of profound social change, new conditions to architecture and the city, and lasting changes to popular and critical forms of culture and its production. FIRST WORKS tells the story of this period and re-assesses the conditions of architecture and the beginnings of architectural careers today through a selection of projects world-wide undertaken during the 60s and 70s. The exhibition presents a single key early project or other kind of architectural realisation by Archigram, Archizoom, Coop Himmelb(l)au, Peter Eisenman, Norman Foster + Richard Rogers, Zaha Hadid, Herzog & de Meuron, Steven Holl, Toyo Ito, Rem Koolhaas, Daniel Libeskind, Rafael Moneo, Morphosis, Renzo Piano, Cedric Price, Aldo Rossi, Alvaro Siza, Bernard Tschumi, Robert Venturi and Paul Virilio + Claude Parent.

It seems clear today that in any discipline related to the production of culture the question of how one starts a career is absolutely central. Not by chance, successive generations of architects have found in their first works the basis for long-term interests, agendas and even obsessions. More interestingly, these beginnings often represent a kind of compressed architectural portfolio of an architects' career, marking key discoveries, breaks or shifts in how they think, work and learn architecture. FIRST WORKS offers a broad selection of this experience through the arrival of a generation that went on to, and continues to, profoundly influence architecture.

A key objective of this exhibition is to trace the origins of contemporary architecture through the formative projects of its most celebrated figures. The projects included will allow students and architects to reconsider practices now often better known through their current or later works. FIRST WORKS provides a timely opportunity to resituate the crucial role of these projects, and their various forms of realisation --built, and otherwise--through which critical forms of architectural practice can be seen to emerge and later influence architecture. At a time when the launching of an architectural career and the work of young architects is itself undergoing great change and experimentation, this exhibition provides the basis for re-assessing some of the world's most important and vital projects and personalities today. Exhibition materials include original architectural drawings, sketches, models, early publication materials and more. Accompany monograph published by AA Publications, 256 pp. full-colour.

This is a video of visualising the RFID field of the Oyster card and other technologies. It can be found on Dan Hill's website City of Sound leading architecture and urbanism website

http://www.cityofsound.com/

http://vimeo.com/7022707

Immaterials: the ghost in the field from timo on Vimeo.

Blue Brain Project

What we're doing is reverse-engineering the brain," says Henry Mackram , codirector of the Brain Mind Institute at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, in Switzerland and leader of the Blue Brain Project , which began in 2005. By mimicking the behavior of the brain down to the individual neuron, the researchers aim to create a modeling tool that can be used by neuroscientists to run experiments, test hypotheses, and analyze the effects of drugs more efficiently than they could using real brain tissue. The model of part of the brain was completed last year, says Markram. But now, after extensive testing comparing its behavior with results from biological experiments, he is satisfied that the simulation is accurate enough that the researchers can proceed with the rest of the brain."