Vote for a Daily Dose

A Daily Dose of Architecture is one of ten blogs nominated in the Architecture category of the 6th Annual JDR Industry Blogger Awards. Given the list of great blogs in contention, I don't really stand a chance of winning, but if you like this little 'ol blog, head over to JDR's website and cast your vote, taking a look at the other contenders while you're at it.



Thanks to Jackson Design and Remodeling for this opportunity. Voting ends April 10 at 4pm PST.

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Aftertaste: Inside Imagination

Parsons SCE's Interior Design Aftertaste symposium, Inside Imagination, takes place on Friday and Saturday at Parsons the New School for Design in New York. I was lucky enough to participate in last year's event, so I can't recommend it highly enough. Details on the two-day event are below.

AFTERTASTE 2015: Inside Imagination - SCE

February 27 + 28, 2015
Friday 6-8pm, Tishman Auditorium, University Center, 63 Fifth Avenue, New York City
Saturday 10-6pm, Kellen Auditorium, 66 Fifth Avenue, New York City

What does it take to imagine? We live in an era of environmental crisis and political unrest when complex systems and data analysis dictate projections of an uncertain future. Interiorists study existing places and are charged with imagining new worlds. In AfterTaste 2015, we draw inspiration from artists, educators, writers, and scientists who work to transcend what we know, to catapult culture into areas inspired and new.

Designers and thinkers who cultivate the imagination conjure futures, thinking beyond problem solving to that which has not existed before. What is the spark that creates new possibilities? How can we promote and develop imaginations that can envision and create interiors for an unknown future, rather than being beholden to the past? How can we cultivate the unknown in a culture increasingly defined by big data and digital devices of distraction?

On February 27 and 28, 2015, imagination alchemists, designers and experts gather to think and enact new possibilities and alternative paths through the interior of the imagination. The schedule of events will be as follows; please take special note of the location changes during Saturday’s events:

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27
6-8pm, Auditorium, University Center, 63 Fifth Avenue
Social Dynamics in Space: 3 Musical Explorations, presented by Michael Schober
Reception on Stage

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28
10am-1230pm, Kellen Auditorium, 66 Fifth Avenue  
Kyna Leski, John Warner, and Linnaea Tillett with David J Lewis, Interlocutor

130pm-230pm, Tishman Auditorium, University Center, 63 Fifth Avenue
Experiment in Performance presented by Jean Taylor, Eric Nightengale, Andres Petruscak

245pm-600pm, Kellen Auditorium, 66 Fifth Avenue, 2:45 – 6:00
Gael Towey, Gary Graham, and Joan Richards with Shannon Mattern, Interlocutor

Participants include: Kyna Leski, Professor, Department of Architecture RISD; John Warner, PhD, Co-Founder of Green Chemistry; Gary Graham, Designer of Fashion; Linnaea Tillett, Designer of Light; Jean Taylor, Actress, Teaching Artist; Mathias Kunzli, Drummer, Percussionist; Michael Schober, Professor, School of Social Research, The New School; Joan Richards, PhD,Professor, Department of History Brown University; Gael Towey, Storyteller, Creative Director; Daniel Carter, Muscian, Writer.

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A Taste of PoohTown

Recent University College London graduate Nick Elias's PoohTown is the recipient of the Silver Medal in the 2014 RIBA President's Medals Student Awards. Below is a taste of the amazing project, in which, "1920s Slough is revisited to capitalize from the economy of 'happiness' as an alternative industry using Winnie the Pooh as a metaphorical protagonist for happiness." I recommend clicking over to his project to see the rest, or if you're in London, PoohTown and other "urban tales" will be on display at Carousel from the 6th of March to the 10th of April.

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Today's archidose #815

Here are some shots of the CINiBA/The Scientific Information Center and Academic Library (2011) in Katowice, Poland, by HS99, photographed by M Poplawski.













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Mark Your Calendars, Moneybags

As spotted at Artforum, and with my emphasis:

The Skystone Foundation has announced that James Turrell’s Roden Crater project near Flagstaff, Arizona will be opened from May 14 to May 17 with limited access reserved at five-thousand dollars per person.

Roden Crater, the unfinished magnum opus of Turrell, is closed to the public, so this is one of those rare opportunities for those with both taste and wealth. On top of the $5,000, tax-deductible "donation," the travel company overseeing the package is charging an addition $1,500 to "cover a portion of visitor's expenses while they're staying on site," again per the Artforum blurb. The donation money goes toward the Skystone Foundation, "the organization responsible for the fundraising, administration and realization of James Turrell’s Roden Crater project."

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Shooting Construction

If you like tunnels, tall buildings and other large-scale constructions, head over to ENR to see the winners in their 2014 Annual Readers' Photo Contest (runners up can be found here). Here are a few standouts.


[Harry Tracy Water Treatment Plant, photographed by Robin Scheswohl]


[L: East Side Access Project, photographed by Rehema Trimiew; R: Legacy Way Tunnel Project, photographed by Steve Ryan]

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Tschumi in PA

Next week Bernard Tschumi is giving a lecture in Pittsburgh, rescheduled from earlier this year when Snowmageddon was predicted but failed to materialize. Details are below.


[Acropolis Museum, Athens, 2001-2009]

SoArch Spring 2015 Lecture Series
BERNARD TSCHUMI
Bernard Tschumi Architects, New York, Paris
Professor, Columbia University
Concept and Notation
Friday 27 February at 5:30pm, Carnegie Lecture Hall
Alan H Rider Distinguished Lecture
Cosponsored by the Heinz Architectural Center at Carnegie Museum of Art

Bernard Tschumi is an architect based in New York and Paris. First known as a theorist, he exhibited and published The Manhattan Transcripts and wrote Architecture and Disjunction, a series of theoretical essays. Major built works include the Parc de la Villette, the New Acropolis Museum, Le Fresnoy Center for the Contemporary Arts, MuséoParc Alésia, and the Paris Zoo.  He was the Dean of the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University in New York from 1988 to 2003. His most recent book is Architecture Concepts: Red is Not a Color, a comprehensive collection of his conceptual and built projects.  His drawings and models are in the collections of several major museums, including MoMA in New York and the Centre Pompidou in Paris; in the spring of 2014, a major retrospective of his work was on view at the Pompidou, with an important bilingual catalogue entitled Bernard Tschumi, Concept and Notation.

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