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Book - Informotion
Infographics are everywhere and a lot of development both in therms of technology and style has gone into the representation of information in the last few years. It is however an old topic and through...
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The Fastest Connection in the City
This week at the Institut Architektur at FHNW we started new fieldwork for a GPS tracking project in Basel, Switzerland. Earlier the UrbanDiary project already tracked individuals everyday movements in...
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Book - Rethinking a Lot
Since the early half of the last century the car is a defining aspect of the urban environment. Pre-car urban pattern are obviously different and many scholars and practitioners have since covered the...
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Olympics 2012 in London and some Twitter Visuals
The Olympics are in town and about to kick off tonight in a packed Olympic Stadium out in Stratford. The last week was all about gearing up to for London to this big event. There were a few new...
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Virtual Landscape and a Peak for the London 2012 Olympic Park
I will be speaking at the Society of Cartographers 48th Annual Conference today. The talk will focus on the New City Landscape maps under the title New City Landscape Maps: Urban Areas According to...
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Manufacturing on Your Desktop
The technology around desktop production of printed 3D objects is evolving rapidly. In the past year a number of systems have surfaced in the cheap segment of printing machines. Where it only was the...
View ArticleUrban Playground
The city can be boring, repetitive and grinding at times. Its the same old routine every day, a miserable day. But hey there is no need, it can be so different. Just think, it could be this exciting...
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Book - Cycle Space
Cycle Space: Architecture and Urban Design in the Age of the Bicycle by Steven Fleming is a nai010 publishers book. It aims to takle the questions surounding the rebewed popularity of cycling in the...
View ArticleRotterdam Timelapse
In preparation of a trip to Rotterdam some impressions from the self styled creative city of the Netherlands. A curious place completely rebuilt after being bombed during World War 2 and since...
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Book - Contagious Architecture
Computers have changed the architectural process fundamentally. In most areas the practice has embraced the possibilities of the software tool and has alongside the technology transformed not just the...
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Book - Close up at a Distance
What do we see, when we see the world? In today's world transcended by digital technology and flooded with representations, models and mashups the question of 'what are we looking at?' becomes more...
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The End of the Virtual? - Touch ID on the New iPhone 5s for the Real Online Self
Since the announcement of the new Apple iPhone 5s and the built in fingerprint scanning technology branded ‘Touch ID’ the discussion around security, data protection and privacy has been relaunched. It...
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Book - Urban Fabrics Inside Out
Two new publications set out to investigate the urban structure from a different angle than the ever same physical structure perspective. Whilst it might not as such mark a general shift in the way...
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Book - Deventer a Story About Project Making
Is architecture real? At times the discussion seems to imply that there is a certain degree of disconnectedness between real live and the abstract concepts architecture is thought of. Does it still...
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3D Printing - the Form 1
Over the past few years printing three dimensional objects has become widely popular with new tools now becoming available at low costs ready to use. Whilst 3D printing has been around since the 1980s...
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Book - Inside Cern Science Lives
What does science look like? This might evoke black and white images of the cities and sixties showing male scientists in white lab coats bent over a table where some assistant has layed out various...
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Book - Hugh Maaskant. Architect of Progress
A very special figure in the architectural history of the Netherlands has finally a architectural monograph dedicated to his work in a new international edition: Hugh Maaskant. Architect of Progres. It...
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Book - Building as Ornament
The ornament is returning slowly to the architectural discourse. It has not really been absent though merely denied, but it is returning as a more prominent topic now. A key text is Adolf Loos'Ornament...
View ArticleCities are Many Things - Urban in Motion
Cities can be many things to its citizens. Urban as an acronym for constant change and transformation, a world to shape up dreams and visions. The artefact city as a construction and collage of layered...
View ArticleShifting Concrete - Architecture in Motion
There is motion in architecture. Not at first glance, but if you start looking it can be found in most aspects. Being this from the movement of people goods or materials to building parts such as...
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Printing useful stuff
3D printing is growing up. The technology is morphing from a idea into a useful tool. A number of universities and aspiring companies are developing amazing spinoffs that can actually produce useful...
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Practice, production and the quest for innovation
The means to produce are changing. The chimneys stopped smoking during the course of the past century and are being replaced by an increasingly distributed production line. Production is coming to a...
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Book - Landscape Observer: London, on Pops and Democracy
London has seen a boom in inner-city developments over the past five to ten years. Large areas have been transformed, become densified in many ways and existing development has been replaced to make...
View ArticleAutonomes Urban Landscapes - Drone Delivery
Home delivery keeps the urban areas busy and promises the busy citizen a hassle free consumer live style. Delivery trucks a clogging the streets of most large western metropolis for later today, same...
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Snail Ballet and Blinking Stars
Animals have featured on this blog mostly in connection to technology in some form and always in regards to movement. Studying these patterns are especially fascinating as they complement snapshot...
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