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July 19th, 2010
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July 19th, 2010
Two recent publications that feature the work of area.. middle_out: practices, geographies and the near now, ed. Jason Young and Fellowships in Architecture, ed. Janice Harvey. Both books are collections of the work of University of Michigan fellows and faculty over the last 20 years or so. The fellowships book is available through Amazon.
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June 28th, 2010
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June 16th, 2010
Below is the board for our most recent competition – the Atlantic City Holocaust Memorial. No luck in this one – it was a stretch with 715 entries – but we were happy with what we came up with and thought it was appropriate for the site. Still waiting to see the boards of the first round finalists – not sure what they were looking for. Here is our explanation for our project:
Based on the assumption that the horrific events of the holocaust are too incomprehensible to be characterized through symbolic representation, our memorial creates a condition that orients and dis-orients the viewer – creating an experience that is at once contemplative and disturbing. The design aim is to construct a series of spaces that visually collapse into each other, activating and implicating traditionally passive viewers in their memorialization of the Holocaust. Conceptually, we imply that we are all responsible for each others’ well being and violations. Our memorial asks viewers, through reflection, to see other in place of themselves.
Our memorial creates a wall that is at once there and not there. The wall is composed of a series of wedged shaped pillars whose inner faces are polished mirrored surfaces – creating a periscopic see-through effect – dematerializing the wall and in the process reflecting the viewer, others, and fragments of the context – relationships that constantly evolve as one both passes by and engages the monument. Upon the outer surfaces of the pillars are embossed in raised letters all possible combinations of one, two, and three letter initials – demarcating all people that are lost, present, and to be.
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May 21st, 2010
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May 21st, 2010
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October 27th, 2009
Inflatable monument project ‘hot air’ to be installed in public square in Timisoara Romania next week. Check out project details, images, videos at the project blog site here. Project was also just featured on the designboom website here.
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October 26th, 2009
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July 11th, 2009
So we finally got around to designing a new site. One thats a little more user friendly – we had been admiring the usabilty of many blog based sites like mos, and matsys and decided to go that route. Wordpress took a bit of time to set-up but the community, plug-ins and customization are great. We are still updating the projects page and will continue to add some of the recent stuff to the news.
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