Category: Video of the Week
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Video of the Week XXXVII: Christmas time
There’s a paucity of architectural Christmas videos on the web – surprise surprise … but here’s a little nostalgia, good-will, and the trauma of reality – yes watch until the very end … Merry Christmas everyone …
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Video of the Week XXXVI: Talking Heads the finale!
So this week not only do we have YouTube talking heads – but the real thing will be at a lecture theatre near you soon.
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Video of the Week XXXV: Talking Heads III
Green and TED: two fashions we can’t compete with. Here’s Norman Foster “Building on the Green Agenda” – past, present and future …
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Video of the Week XXXIV: Talking Heads II
Another week another icon. This time French. Light, furniture, solidity, dialogue and tradition …
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Video of the Week XXXIII: Talking Heads I
As we approach the end of year exhibition season with the usual goodies from Weltec, Massey and VUW design and architectural programmes some words from design gods and goddess seems appropriate.
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Fantasy Chairs
For the ultimate office reception: Looking through my latest version of Architects’ Journal I came across this little beauty! The office photocopier need no longer tremble at the thought of your next office party…
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Video of the Week XXXII: site specific mini-series III
This last look at Ernesto Neto presents his well-known “Léviathan Thot” Panthéon, Paris (2006).
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Video of the Week XXXI: site specific mini-series II
To continue this mini-film festival on Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto is a film of a recent work in New York.
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Video of the Week XXX: site specific mini-series I
This week’s video is the first of a series of three on Ernesto Neto (1964-), one of Brazil’s best known contemporary artists. Much of his work is site specific and architecturally innovative. They are increasingly large, immersive, biomorphic and at times spatially hungry works which encourage audience engagement.
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Video of the Week XXIX: Russian Winter Series IV
This last segment in the Russian Winter Series has three longish films (in internet terms – they’re only 8ish minutes each) – three parts of “Paradoxes in Russian Style of Constructivism”. They take a little more patience that the previous installments – partly because they’re not in English – but I found the interesting aesthetic…