lonely penguin

The artist (or activist) unlike the anthropologist (in this case penguin-logist) would intervene and save it (than simply observe). There is something very brutal during the moment where the narrator takes for granted that the scientists are not allowed or not capable of saving the penguin. #Not like

teotihuacan people 2007 AD

ryue nishizawa

last week there was a lecture from mr nishizawa at gsd.
he talked about few projects some of his own and some of sanaa!
it was a really nice lecture from a very nice architect with lots of humor!
as we already know he has designed together with kazuyo sejima the toledo glass museum which bee-zee has extensively presented!

gtroza + glouizis

most of you probably know gtroza [on the left]- since he is an active participant in this blog; but bee-zee would like to introduce you to hidden glouizis [on the right] for his highly active participation in MCUS*.
although most of the credits are on me, this installation was a creative collaboration among the 3 of us.
gtroza:

glouizis:

bee-zee:

*MCUS=MICRO CEASEFIRE UNDER SHADOW

alberto kalach:: 01

bee-zee is happy to present alberto kalach from mexico.
vasconcelos LIBRARY is my favorite of his projects::

[by using the nowadays fashionable bottom-up approach he is creating an amazing space that reminds me urbicande's cubic network::
]
please enjoy::

alberto kalach gave a lecture in chicago at soa-uic this monday.

* all photos [except urbicande] are from alberto kalach's website. click here.

gtroza

i would like to thank gtroza for the invention of curtain's detail.
without this, it would be impossible to make it happen, especially since lot of people are always doubting the accomplishment of my ideas - including myself;]

the 8 participants

unfortuntely, the blogger does not allow me to easily change the order of the photos...
so, i am first, sorry about that!

invention

"the familiar is what guides us to invention... it is a great pity that students are always asked to "invent" by staring at a blank piece of paper.
invention exists only in the context of the familiar, and schools should teach such bread-and-butter buildings of familiar life" by demetri porphyrios

fugue

now i am looking forward to receive "american fugue" by alexis stamatis!
alexis stamatis has promised me a whole chapter of C H I C A G O !

buy it

buy this or any other book of petros tatsopoulos.
not very patient readers like me... would love his books.
suggested also by alexis stamatis!

i need to re-read it at least once.


FYI [greek]:

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heretopia

ben nicholson is an amazing writer, inspiring professor and great speaker.
i really enjoyed reading his text about new harmony - the utopian small town of indiana although i may disagree with his small manifesto.
doug garofalo's text* reminds me the important role of architects that are not building, of not even paper architects.
maybe now i can also remember rem's words about the need for critics to work together with architects.link.

* doug garofalo, page 105:
"in all these years i have never considered nicholson's "bedtime stories"[1] to be anything but serious.it is not that they are without humor [there is plenty], only that the ideas contained within them are serious and possible, radical and necessary departures from conventional thinking directed at both current and ongoing critical issues. he envisions and constructs possible scenarios that address our thoughtfulness rather than our tendency toward consumption, places where our "imagination longs to be", political spaces that allow us to understand various ways of being. the concept of heretopia is relevant here, as both a real and imagined place. heretopias are capable of "juxtaposing in a single real place several spaces, several sites that are themselves incompatible"[2]"...
[1] by ben nicholson
[2] by michel foucault