Critical Distance, Wednesday, 11 November, 7 pm

Jacob van Rijs is to give a talk as part of the Lisbon Architecture Triennale's Critical Distance lecture series. The lecture, and following discussion with Portuguese architect, Diogo Burnay (CVDB Studio), will revolve around MVRDV's philosophy, logic and design thinking. Ever since the beginnings of MVRDV more than 20 years ago, the practice has combined a conceptual, theoretical approach, from Pig City to Grand Paris, with a focus on realising these ideas or prototypes; resulting in the recently completed Markthal in Rotterdam, Villa VPRO, Book Mountain, and many more. The lecture will cover a host of MVRDV's and design methods, with ideas orbiting around their latest book, 'MVRDV Buildings'.
http://www.mvrdv.nl/en/events/jacob-van-rijs-lecture-lisbon-architecture-triennale

 

“obras de arte”

 

Todos mentimos, indefectiblemente. Es algo inherente a la condición humana. El hombre crea ficciones todo el tiempo para relacionarse con el otro, con el mundo. Quizás sin ellas, la vida sería insoportable. Y en este escenario, el rol del arte puede ser fundamento para que la ilusión se despliegue. Fantaseamos, creamos universos paralelos a una realidad que creemos que existe como la percibimos, pero tampoco estamos seguros que sea tal. El arte nos engaña todo el tiempo: es la madre de todas las ilusiones.
http://blog.sculpture.org/2015/11/04/gabriel-valansi/

Iran is the fifth most important stone producing country

 

„Iran‘s natural stone industry is seeking new partners“ according to a press release by Fair Organizers Veronafiere. „Investments are planned coming to 200 million dollars in the technology sector alone in order to modernize 5,000 processing centres in the country (and) more than 500 active quarries.“ The 87,000 employees in the branch also need to update their know-how.
http://www.stone-ideas.com/2015/11/04/irans-natural-stone-branch-millions-to-invest-in-technology-and-qualification/
 

Its a city, its Beer Sheva

 

The city of Beer Sheva, in south Israel, expresses the modernist object and the modern mortal perception. This city’s thesis, located in the desert – Arab – Mediterranean area, creates an imbalanced gap between the local native conceptual spirit and the eastern European modernist urban planning; allowing inserting “external” thesis  spatial – Mediterranean, to create a sustainable urban space, that will expresses the conceptual native properly and the complexity of the mortal appearance phenomenon. The project relates to questions regarding the dwelling space perception and the ex-territorial city space.
Source: http://www.evolo.us/architecture/terra-nova-urban-planning/
 

Houston, we are made of Marble...

NASA scientists are tracking the upcoming Halloween flyby of asteroid 2015 TB145 with several optical observatories and the radar capabilities of the agency’s Deep Space Network at Goldstone, California. The asteroid named „Great Pumpkin“ will fly past Earth at a safe distance slightly farther than the moon’s orbit on Oct. 31 at 10:05 a.m. PDT (1:05 p.m. EDT). Scientists are treating the flyby of the estimated 1,300-foot-wide (400-meter) asteroid as a science target of opportunity, allowing instruments on the earth to scan it during the close pass.
http://www.stone-ideas.com/2015/10/28/houston-we-have-a-pumpkin-halloween-asteroid-a-treat-for-radar-astronomers/