Thursday, May 10, 2012

Slices Through Space - the book is now available on issuu
Here are the students' final posts - their Points of Departure:
Angella - Making the Invisible Visible
Elena - Light Pollution
Hailey - Tomorrow's Needs
Kanchan - Myth: The Architecture of Belief
Ken - Slices Through Time (congratulations to the Azrieli Scholars prize!)
Krista - Re-reading Landscapes
Martine - SEE. SEEN.
Maysan - Green-ing outside the box (congratulations to the Carleton MArch award!)
Robin - Grow ON
Steph - The Community ARTery
Shirley - A Pattern Language

From the final Slices Through Space review at Azrieli School of Architecture & Urbanism, Carleton University: Elena, Angella, professor Roger Connah, Kanchan, Maysan, guest critics Inderbir Riar & Morgan Ip, Hailey, guest critic Claudio Sgarbi with Gisle (and H+E+A), Ken, Shirley, Robin, Krista, Narae, Steph, Magdalena and Martine.
Thanks to you all!

Sunday, April 22, 2012

I think this image is very powerful.

The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man. ― Nietzsche

a pattern language: toward future dwelling


































web of present conditions, interrelations, dependencies...
instead of replacing the destroyed or making up for the misjudgments,
let's just look at what emerges from the margins of all growth and decay...
it is too late to change the method or speed of production in order to overwrite the mistakes,
but there is always a slit in the existing fabric for new adaptation/ cohabitation to slip in...