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17.12.2009
push the brake, take a break, break with a brake...
After the Christmas and New Year break which means next year but actually only a few days away, I have not only to submit a contest, write two theory thesis and indexing half of Los Angeles, but also I'm still thinking to re launch CtrlArchDel's site, update synthetic.cut's site and doing some major modifications to this site...
As mainly for next year, I think there will be some changes regarding my online presence. :)
I wish you all: a smooth christmas, a rocking new year and thanks to all 23.706 visitors of 2009.
open throttle...
O/.
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16.12.2009
RFID3D illustrations spotted on the Korean online publication: Opencast, No.67 :D
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15.12.2009
New beast in the yard, signed CtrlArchDel.
I will need to do one more and together with MotoD they could be called a family.
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14.12.2009
back in London, but still jet lagged...
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08.12.2009
visiting Eric Owen Moss's studio, a great architectural garage.
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06.12.2009
skateboarding there where you should do it, Venice Beach, CA.
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04.12.2009
visiting MORPHOSIS, to bad that they are really keen on taking pictures... but still good work though...
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04.11.2009
visiting Lotner House and figure out that Bond is still alive...
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03.12.2009
visiting Tom Wiscombe, EMERGENT studio... great work, great guy...
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01.12.2009
hello L.A.
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25.11.2009
to serve as inspiration to AA DIP12. :) [pinched from: millennium people blog]
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24.11.2009
SHINGLE CLAD FIN [via: wilsonbrothers]
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17.11.2009
A glimps of Romania at BBC TopGear.
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16.11.2009
‘A Seperate Place’ is the 2007 Custerson Award project led by 4th Year AA Student Jesse Randzio, and completed by a team of students that began design and planning in May, 2007. [more]
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15.11.2009
Nature, the place that we barely remember.
image: Michael Pollan's writing house [via: ISO50]
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13.11.2009
The Moffett's dance.
I photographed this Moffett a couple of days a go on the street... I love the way that this small machines attache to the trucks, being as a working extension which climb and hang with it's own force to the truck, the same force used to lift up the heavy loads.
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12.11.2009
i7 CHAIR preview,
a wooden sketch of what would be a dedication to AA intermediate 7
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10.11.2009
AA celebrated, saying: "A reconstruction of Bernard Tschumi’s 1974 fireworks display - Architectural Manifesto 1." [link]
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07.11.2009
Objectified, a documentary film by Gary Hustwit
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05.11.2009
"Open source is completely different than open space." Brett STEELE
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01.11.2009
Robert Kusmirowski, BUNKER exhibition at the Barbican Center [details]
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30.10.2009
make it full screen, turn on the sound ...can you feel it ?
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27.10.2009
RFID3D
New project under CtrlArchDel section based on the RFID icon shape created by Timo Arnall & Jack Schulze.
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27.10.2009
I didn't knew to much about Bata, the shoe manufacturer until one week ago, when at one of Patrick Wright's HTS lecture I found out that Bata, was actually Mr. Tomas Bata, a czech entrepreneur, a fan of Marks, who wished to do in shoe industry what Henry Ford did in the automobiles one. I also didn't know that Le Corbusier dreamed about working for Mr.Bata and that Mr. Bata had his office like an elevator which slides between factorie's levels surveying the inside activities.
He even developed a small town with modernist houses east from London in order to create a small Bata working society…
I really recommend you Patrick Wright's article about this glittering story.
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25.10.2009
pumping, pumping, moving buildings... if the communist could do that back in 60's why can't we do it now ?
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25.10.2009
going down ?
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23.10.2009
oxford circus, the most populated junction, under maintenance... a totally different urban atmosphere for only a couple of hours...
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21.10.2009
new project under CtrlArchDel section: 3Doodling
[experiments made using Rhonda Beta v.0.23]
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19.10.2009
ironic, iconic, painful, funny, cool, cultural, chaotic... almost psychedelic
[yes, the iPhone's camera is good enough :) ]
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17.10.2009
some colors from HELMO [Thomas Couderc & Clement Vauchez]
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14.10.2009
3d doodling with Rhonda beta v.0.23, again ...
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14.10.2009
a pair of nickers as my first result with Rhonda Beta v.0.23 :D
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13.10.2009
RHONDA FOREVER...
indeed "forever"... I more than love this thing...
finally we will be able to go hand modeling in 3D, it's just a meter of marketing time,
I guess :D
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13.10.2009
Concrete sculpture of a 'Plattenbau' (building made with precast concrete slabs, mostly built in eastern Europe before 89) by Dagmar Schmidt, in Halle, Germany.
[via anArchitecture]
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12.10.2009
Shigeru Ban explain what is all about, finally...
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11.10.2009
Killinger and Freund Motorcycle... where from, all this things are still popping up ?
[full article on BikeEXIF]
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07.10.2009
vehicles illustrations by kevincyr
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02.10.2009
Zoran recommends the SHIMANO XTR [much more beautiful indeed and much more expensive in the same time] ...and correct me regarding the previous post, it's not a SHIMANO SRAM... it's just SRAM, which means it's a different brand, sorry for that :D
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26.09.2009
the beauty of technology, spotted in the new SHIMANO SRAM X.0
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23.09.2009
Marc Quinn's sculpture [source:guardian]
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18.09.2009
CHAOSVILLE, agricultural advertising.
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16.09.2009
new photo shooting for PERSONA,
bigger view on my flickr account
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10.09.2009
if you are in Netherlands watch out... the GOGBOT Festival 2009 it's ON ;)
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31.08.2009
sliiide, back to London...
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24.08.2009
the place where europe ends... to the west...
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23.08.2009
Praia de Odeceixe, the place where wind make waves and waves break boards...
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19.08.2009
portugaaao :D
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13.08.2009
my MEKA... thumbs up and keep it rolling, Zoran ;)
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12.08.2009
Bowler Raptor by Ryan Skelley
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07.08.2009
the thing is still to get the idea, not the technique...
this one can be done almost with any DSLR, you don't need a Canon 5D Mark II :)
check out Charlie McCarthy [the guy who made it] on vimeo
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30.07.2009
Industry as culture,
Hunedoara, Romania... There is a gothic castle built somewhere in sec.14 by the Austro-Hungaryan empire which was occupying that part of Romania at that time. The Hunyad Castle became later the residence of "Vlad of Wallachia" [so called Dracula, stupid legend but tourists loves it :| ... ]. The castle, later in time, in the romanian communist era was "joined" by a massive industrial area... and when I say "massive" I want to say "hyper, extra, meta, mega huge"... the area was built some where around 1960...
I'm still wondering if the strategy of surrounding the castle with that thick urban industrial layer was a manifesto of the communist party against culture or against Austro-Hungaryan occupation, or it was just the right place to develop the core of romanian metallurgy, the economic heart of the country right in the geographic hart of the country... What is sure is that the industrial park raised the population of Hunedoara from around 1000 inhabitants in sec. 18th to 86,000 inhabitants in sec.20. The not so sexy part is that after the fall of the communists through the "romanian revolution of 1989", the industrial park start dying and ones with the industrial park, the city as well, entered in a really strange and weird "holiday until we die" period of their life...
The castle is still there, trying to survive as a part of the romanian cultural heritage, even if the authorities transform it in a "mall - market" horror combination and the Industrial park look very similar with the Cernobil area but thanks God without the human physical malformations... instead, with many spiritual malformations.
Through the architectural field, I would wish to move there, I would wish to buy half of that industrial park :)) and reconvert it in what you could call a "museum of a country", Museum of Romania.
more pictures from the industrial park's construction times here.
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26.07.2009
Retezat peak, 2482 meters altitude... even if my altimeter displayed 5120m.
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21.07.2009
I chose less hair for this summer :D... I didn't had such a short hair since I was 4 years old.
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20.07.2009
KORC project was published in the "AA projects review book 2009"
KORC project was also published in the "AA exhibition guide 2009"
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18.07.2009
I figured out why I like Romania. This country is like a naked machine, a naked bike, a transformer without cowlings or with just a few cowlings. You can easily observe the political and administrative systems and more or less the social mechanisms. I like it, I find it honest, exposed and really straight forward... like this wing, which close down only for a more diplomatic attitude.
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17.07.2009
home, the final frontier...
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16.07.2009
regarding the MacBookPro notebooks, the package design it's still amazing... and the machine is pretty sexy... until now, but I guess the real test will be when I will start "loading" it after the summer brake :D
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15.07.2009
"the beast" is here :D
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13.07.2009
I didn't know Daniel Libeskind can be so passionate in talking about architecture. After 14min. I needed to push "pause", take a deep breath and watch forward... I really enjoyed he's passion in talking about architecture, he's key words and he's opinions about space... I still enjoy D.Libeskind's architecture.
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11.07.2009
History remain history.
I promised that I will never ever write about this subject, but it's impossible... Yes, I still don't get it why from a sudden this guy is more alive now when he's dead... Anyway he was dead before being dead and I must admit I didn't liked him or he's music back then at all [shoot me for that] so why would I like him now ?... and c'mon, since he's dead I hear one of he's play every day... this is ridiculous... I think he's record company killed him to get some more money... because with him alive, they have been end up being bankrupt.
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09.07.2009
V-Ray RT is here
I never thought that there are still things to improve to this render engine... well there are. Actually they took a smart concept from Maxwell and they really improve it in such a way that we want loos time anymore on render tests. So, you can make your lights setup, materials setup, cameras, etc. and see the changes live in the rendering view port + as long you leave the image to render the quality will be better. Watch the official presentation movie and keep in your mind that the "funny" part began after 1/3 from the movie :)
PS: don't ask about GI and how many cores he's computer have.
[via: Paludez]
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08.07.2009
me, presenting my project in the "projects review exhibition members evening"
source: AALOG
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08.07.2009
my project in the exhibition
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08.07.2009
more pictures from the exhibition
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06.07.2009
Our unit's space [AA Intermediate 7. Tutors: Liam Young & Kate Davies] in the AA's end of the year exhibition. The exhibition will be open until 25 July and you can find it in 36 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3ES.
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02.07.2009
UPDATES:
- I finished the KORC project, I still love it :)) and I will upload everything soon;
- I had my external examiners final table [the RIBA guys] and achieved the RIBA Part 1;
- my computer died very weird in the second that I start my external examiners table presentation :|, and didn't come back to life since than, so, my Mac and Michael Jackson, I think they ware good friends... I didn't know that :)) [I always hate M.J. so I will by a new Mac]
- the AA END OF YEAR exhibition opening will take place this Friday, so keep it in your mind... the pavilion and tones of sexy, hardcore project to be revealed ;)
PS: I'm so pissed off for my computer thing, because these days I would have tones of thinks to put online... I will try to do it in another way.