Shell - ARTechnic

A Japanese villa set in the forest landscape.  The building interacts with the surrounding area, while maintaining it's own style. Find more about it at:
http://www.archdaily.com/11602/shell-artechnic-architects/

The Sacred Modernist: Josef Albers as a Catholic Artist

Curated by Nicholas Fox Weber

until 8 July 2012

Curated by Nicholas Fox Weber, Director of the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, this exhibition presents the work of the great Bauhaus-trained modernist in a new way. Josef Albers was born and raised a Catholic and at the end of his life, he regularly attended Sunday mass and went to confession. This exhibition explores the influence of this religious upbringing as well as his admiration for the masters of early Christian art and architecture.

The Sacred Modernist: Josef Albers as a Catholic Artist brings together works from all phases of Albers's life. It presents his earliest sketches of cathedrals in Germany, includes pieces from his time at the Bauhaus and North Carolina's Black Mountain College, and culminates in his final 1976 Homage to the Square.

The detail above is taken from the reconstruction of the stained glass window Rosa Mystica which was designed by Josef Albers for St. Michael's Church in Bottrop, Germany and which was destroyed during WWII. Through the determined fieldwork and archival resources of The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, the Lewis Glucksman Gallery is honoured to present a full scale reconstruction of Albers's design for the Rosa Mystica. This is the first time the recommissioned window will be seen in public.

A full colour catalogue documents all the works selected for exhibition and features insights into Josef Albers's work by Julie Agoos, Oliver Barker, Leland de la Durantaye, Mark Patrick Hederman, Fiona Kearney and Colm Tóibín.

The catalogue and exhibition are generously supported by The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation.

Seachange 2030+ Ideas Competition: Winners Announced

The Australian Institute of Landscape Architects [AILA] and its competition partners invited individuals and teams to participate in the Sea Change 2030+, an international ideas competition, which asked for innovative ideas for planning, designing and managing for adaptation to urban sea level rise.

There were many highly innovative ideas in most of the submissions. Three equal first prizes were awarded in the professional team category. The Jury felt that there were three outstanding submissions that covered different aspects of local, regional and global responses to climate change and adaptation to sea level rise. These entrants were not readily comparable as they dealt with responses required over different scales of space and time.

Rest of this article along with the other winning ideas are here at this link

Nano-Cathedral

For those of you who are interested in small(very small) scale models...

The new device prints layers of a liquid resin, developed at the Vienna University of Technology, that hardens to a solid when it's hit with two photons from the printer's laser beam. Continuously-moving mirrors focus the beam to the right place as the printer works. The results have a resolution of hundreds of nanometers, which means each of the sculptures the printer makes is about the size of a grain of sand.

The whole article by NBC is at this link:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46721546/ns/technology_and_science-innovation/#.T2tj_jHUOSo 

Wilkinson Residence, Portland

This residence in Portland is an example of how an Architect used the surrounding forest area to influence the design.  As the site is similar to Garnish, it might be worth having a look at the project as a precedent.

More information about the design can be found here:
http://www.greendiary.com/entry/wilkinson-residence-in-portland-is-one-swanky-treehouse/

A2 Architects

Here's a link to the A2 architects website, you might remember a few models from the Durcan lecture, hope it might give ideas for some models. It's also in the ''Architecture Sites'' in the side bar.

http://www.a2.ie/

First Year Trip to London!

Click Here for the full album of our trip to London.

Photos taken mainly by Jim Byrne, along with Kate O'Brian and Caoimhe Marley.