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The Map of the day | Map of the U.S. nation's Laboratories
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…Or probably the map of the week. This map is described as an interactive version of the U.S. Department of Energy 's National Laboratories . It has been tweeted by Geographer Javier Arbona , one of the editors behind the excellent website Demilit .
The map originally appeared on Symmetry Magazine in an article entitled Around the US in 17 labs .
U.S. Department of Energy's National Laboratories | Courtesy of the U.S. Department of Energy and Symmetry
The map originally appeared on Symmetry Magazine
"The US Department of Energy has nurtured hubs of innovation in the United States for more than eight decades.
Discoveries made at the national laboratories have saved lives, solved mysteries of nature, improved products, transformed industries and served as a training ground for students who go on to pursues careers in science and technology." - Symmetry Magazine
The legend makes the map particularly easy to read: (1) in blue, the DOE Laboratories ; (2) in red the DOE Office of Science Laboratories .
There seems to be several other maps that map out the Department of Energy DOE Laboratories such as these two examples below:
Department of Energy National Laboratories | Courtesy of U.S. Department of Energy
As seen, these two maps are a little bit too conventional in comparison with the interactive and quite ludic Symmetry Magazine 's map.
I'm reminded of an interview of Michal Migurski , a (former?) Director of Technology and partner at Stamen Design , a San Francisco-based studio well-known for its data visualization and mapmaking.
Department of Energy National Laboratories | courtesy of U.S. Department of Energy
Originally appeared on Wikipedia
Source: Symmetry Magazine
The map originally appeared on Symmetry Magazine in an article entitled Around the US in 17 labs .
U.S. Department of Energy's National Laboratories | Courtesy of the U.S. Department of Energy and Symmetry
The map originally appeared on Symmetry Magazine
"The US Department of Energy has nurtured hubs of innovation in the United States for more than eight decades.
Discoveries made at the national laboratories have saved lives, solved mysteries of nature, improved products, transformed industries and served as a training ground for students who go on to pursues careers in science and technology." - Symmetry Magazine
The legend makes the map particularly easy to read: (1) in blue, the DOE Laboratories ; (2) in red the DOE Office of Science Laboratories .
There seems to be several other maps that map out the Department of Energy DOE Laboratories such as these two examples below:
Department of Energy National Laboratories | Courtesy of U.S. Department of Energy
As seen, these two maps are a little bit too conventional in comparison with the interactive and quite ludic Symmetry Magazine 's map.
I'm reminded of an interview of Michal Migurski , a (former?) Director of Technology and partner at Stamen Design , a San Francisco-based studio well-known for its data visualization and mapmaking.
Department of Energy National Laboratories | courtesy of U.S. Department of Energy
Originally appeared on Wikipedia
In this interview with Meta Markets, Migurski said an interesting statement about the growing importance of visualization in the age of the web — and the apps. Indeed he pointed out that:
I think that visualization is going to get more and more normal and more and more expected as a part of just dealing with information. The way that we understand the word visualization to be used, often all it means is the next logical step in showing information. It's really more a future-focused word, whereas things that used to be called visualization become normal and day-to-day and aren't considered special anymore. You think about scatter plots, pie charts, colored heat maps, that kind of thing. All that stuff was incredibly cutting edge a decade ago, and then as the data and tools have become more available they become features of other things.
Visualization as an instrument to critically — or commercially — show, address, or to think with, is no longer to demonstrate. An example: Stamen Design's collaboration with NBC to design a real-time visualization of Olympics discussion on Twitter, known as NBC Olympics Twitter Tracker, as reported on a 2010's edition of the New York Times.
At the very least, even serious information can be interpreted as ludic as Olympic Twitter data…
Source: Symmetry Magazine
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Reminder: Call for Submissions | Uncertain Territories vol. 01 ı Contingency
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A short post to remind my readers that you have few days to submit your abstract for the first volume of Uncertain Territories . The topic is Contingency . The deadline is Monday, July 01, 2013 .
The selected authors, then, will be contacted within 15 days following the 01st July . Submissions can be essays (length varying from 500 words to 4000 words), or photographic essays, drawings, interviews, etc. The final deadline is 30 September 2013 .
I then updated the related post dated of March announcing this first editorial project as it contained too many errors. Hoping that all have been corrected, my sincere apology about theses errors.
You can find here the presentation of the first volume of Uncertain Territories including the main guidelines of this first call-for-submission.
I wish you all good luck and I am looking forward to reading your proposals…
The selected authors, then, will be contacted within 15 days following the 01st July . Submissions can be essays (length varying from 500 words to 4000 words), or photographic essays, drawings, interviews, etc. The final deadline is 30 September 2013 .
I then updated the related post dated of March announcing this first editorial project as it contained too many errors. Hoping that all have been corrected, my sincere apology about theses errors.
You can find here the presentation of the first volume of Uncertain Territories including the main guidelines of this first call-for-submission.
I wish you all good luck and I am looking forward to reading your proposals…
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The Editor's read | Origin of Species (Geneses and State of Architecture)
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The latest issue of Architectural Design (May/June 2013) , addressing the relationship of architecture and landscape within the concept of Pastoralism , gathers a range of authors from Liam Young of Tomorrow's Thoughts Today/Unknown Fields Division , Nic Clear to Geoff Ward and François Roche of R&Sie(n)/New Territories . I shall recommend all these essays, for they all pose, yet differently, the role and position of architecture in face of complexities. In one word, The New Pastoralism. Landscape into Architecture examines the recent contribution of technologies such as biomimetics, hydroponics, cybernetic feedback systems, micro ecologies to architecture as well as more traditional methods of constructions based on natural materials.
Drift Drive ı Floating Frontiers | Courtesy of Petropia, 2012
The ambition is to reconnect architecture and landscape with these soft methods, however not in the naïve way of living with nature. Indeed, this is my point of view, these essays highlight a new position of architecture, or let's say, an emerging desire of rearticulating its agency, of integrating a certain dose of contingency, of uncertainty (see Young 's and Ward 's essays).
Hypnosis Room | courtesy of R&Sie(n)/New Territories, 2005
It seems to me that this is what Michael Sorkin argues in his essay Origin of Species in which he explores the geneses and state of architecture. Starting with this basic but important question: "where does architecture come from?", he raises a series of questions, of topics, that architecture has articulated, articulates, and will be articulating in the future.
Turtle Portable Theater | Courtesy of Sorkin Studio, 1995
Architecture has evolved. So have representation and human preoccupation. So has ecological system. Architecture is forced to confront, do with , negotiate, adapt to a swarm of crises that are articulated ranging from political crisis, economic crisis, social crisis, to climatic crisis, ecological crisis, and anthropological crisis.
The same issue discusses architecture's recent interest in synthetic biology, biotechnology, and nanotechnology to examine notions of adaptability, responsiveness, scalability, and so on. What kind of contribution can biology bring to architecture? It is difficult to respond to this question as these cross-disciplinary research are emerging. These essays collected in this issue of Volume nevertheless give us a first glance at possibilities, opportunities for the practice — but also the discourse — of architecture even though one should be cautious and wait for these research showing first results…
Sorkin continues:
Drift Drive ı Floating Frontiers | Courtesy of Petropia, 2012
The ambition is to reconnect architecture and landscape with these soft methods, however not in the naïve way of living with nature. Indeed, this is my point of view, these essays highlight a new position of architecture, or let's say, an emerging desire of rearticulating its agency, of integrating a certain dose of contingency, of uncertainty (see Young 's and Ward 's essays).
Hypnosis Room | courtesy of R&Sie(n)/New Territories, 2005
It seems to me that this is what Michael Sorkin argues in his essay Origin of Species in which he explores the geneses and state of architecture. Starting with this basic but important question: "where does architecture come from?", he raises a series of questions, of topics, that architecture has articulated, articulates, and will be articulating in the future.
Turtle Portable Theater | Courtesy of Sorkin Studio, 1995
Architecture has evolved. So have representation and human preoccupation. So has ecological system. Architecture is forced to confront, do with , negotiate, adapt to a swarm of crises that are articulated ranging from political crisis, economic crisis, social crisis, to climatic crisis, ecological crisis, and anthropological crisis.
Architecture always negotiates a terrain between its defining utility and expression, the frisson of some excess, including the excessive linkage of the two. But what more should a building say? We all speak in a language grounded in the grammars of modernity, the fantasy that meaning is 'objectively' produced, believe that architecture's effects can be measured and the dance and dancer distinguished. Yet we are bored by a trivialised idea of functionality that, claiming some higher rationality, grounds itself in the merely technical, and even the most 'objective' architecture seems invariably in thrall of something else's visuality, failing abjectly without the festive measure of the body.
The second part of the 20th century has been marked with architecture's relationship to technology, as Sorkin states, "derived from engineering's exponential formal evolution within architecture's terrestrial meadows". Parametricism is an example among others. So are computational design and emerging technologies, let me cite 3D Printing. In their editorial of the latest issue of Volume, issue 35 Everything Under Control, Arjen Oosterman and Brendan Cormier mention the "ambition of at least two architecture offices, in Holland alone, to be the first to print a full-scale building. One is pursuing a pavilion, the other an Amsterdam canal house, complete with gabled roof."
Plugged-in Territories ı Icelandic Energy Master Plan | Courtesy of LCLA Office/ Harvard Graduate School of Design
Sorkin continues:
What we need more than ever now is both a theory and a practice of excess, the rampant particularities — small and large — to fight the great multinational culture machine as it seizes and markets every difference, creating a field of total abstraction in which no origin, no connection, no authenticity is left undiminished and remains truly vital. Against this, life must fight back both in terms of the glorious and inventive urgencies of building truly sustainable architectural cult
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Book | Divine Name Verification. A forthcoming book by Noah Horwitz
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In my wish-list, this forthcoming book Divine Name Verification , by Noah Horwitz . Horwitz 's Divine Name Verification will be published by the excellent Punctum Books this July. What will it be about? I'll be basing on Punctum Books 's presentation of the book.
Divine Name Verification | Noah Horwitz || Punctum Books, 2003
First, Divine Name Verification is not an essay on either architecture or art but an essay on philosophy. An essay that can be classified as or related to speculative realism and related movements such as Object-Oriented Ontology , a movement defended by French Quentin Meillassoux and Scottish Ray Brassier . However, the theme the books addresses is threefold: (1) Divine Name Verification is an essay on Anti-Darwinism — speculating that we should turn our back from Darwinism; it also addresses two important issues related to our matter of concern: architecture: (2) intelligent Design; and (3) the computational nature of reality.
I confess not to be familiar with Noah Horwitz 's research. This will be an enjoyable occasion to read him. As indicated in Punctum Books ' website, the essay defends intelligent design "by attempting to demonstrate the essentially computational nature of reality." The readers of computational theorists such as Wolfram , Chaitin , Friedkin , Lloyd , Schmidhuber , etc. will appreciate this book. Not only, those familiar with designers such as Neri Oxman , Biothing , R&Sie(n)/New Territories , to limit to these examples, will also be concerned.
Other topics discussed in the book are chaos theory (e.g., Brian Goodwin ), contingency (I am looking forward to reading his Darwinism's Apotheosis: Quentin Meillassoux 's Atheism of Radical Contingency ), etc. It will be a good opportunity to read or re-read design theorists, let me cite only one William Dembski . It is not Punctum Books 's first time to published books that concern the discipline of architecture as the publisher has published books related to architecture such as Making the Geologic Now (edited by Elizabeth Ellsworth and Jamie Kruse of Smudge Studio ) and New-York-based French architect Léopold Lambert 's The Funambulist Pamphlets : Volume 01_Spinoza and volume 02_Foucault . Or this must-read, at least for those interested in topics such as landscape futures, decay, etc., Ben Woodard 's On A Ungrounded Earth .
This summer is announced to be rich in books…
Divine Name Verification | Noah Horwitz || Punctum Books, 2003
First, Divine Name Verification is not an essay on either architecture or art but an essay on philosophy. An essay that can be classified as or related to speculative realism and related movements such as Object-Oriented Ontology , a movement defended by French Quentin Meillassoux and Scottish Ray Brassier . However, the theme the books addresses is threefold: (1) Divine Name Verification is an essay on Anti-Darwinism — speculating that we should turn our back from Darwinism; it also addresses two important issues related to our matter of concern: architecture: (2) intelligent Design; and (3) the computational nature of reality.
I confess not to be familiar with Noah Horwitz 's research. This will be an enjoyable occasion to read him. As indicated in Punctum Books ' website, the essay defends intelligent design "by attempting to demonstrate the essentially computational nature of reality." The readers of computational theorists such as Wolfram , Chaitin , Friedkin , Lloyd , Schmidhuber , etc. will appreciate this book. Not only, those familiar with designers such as Neri Oxman , Biothing , R&Sie(n)/New Territories , to limit to these examples, will also be concerned.
Other topics discussed in the book are chaos theory (e.g., Brian Goodwin ), contingency (I am looking forward to reading his Darwinism's Apotheosis: Quentin Meillassoux 's Atheism of Radical Contingency ), etc. It will be a good opportunity to read or re-read design theorists, let me cite only one William Dembski . It is not Punctum Books 's first time to published books that concern the discipline of architecture as the publisher has published books related to architecture such as Making the Geologic Now (edited by Elizabeth Ellsworth and Jamie Kruse of Smudge Studio ) and New-York-based French architect Léopold Lambert 's The Funambulist Pamphlets : Volume 01_Spinoza and volume 02_Foucault . Or this must-read, at least for those interested in topics such as landscape futures, decay, etc., Ben Woodard 's On A Ungrounded Earth .
This summer is announced to be rich in books…
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Serrana and Quitasueño a drawing project by Luis Callejas and Melissa Naranjo/LCLA Office
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My apology for this long silence. I was particularly busy on calls for papers these recent days. Not an easy task! These call for papers, however, drive you to new boundaries, new research. Furthermore, three weeks ago, I visited a site near the city where my parents live, a city located in the Parisian basin, a changing territory, known for being agricultural now becoming energetic territory with the presence of onshore shale oil platforms (or hydraulic fracturing facilities) in this contested territory. I'm planning to add one of two more next week. Consequently, I will be once again silent for a couple of weeks. I can't say more as I am currently working on a series of posts on this topic of landscape-energy.
Then I profit from this post to remind you this important information: two weeks left for sending me your abstract for Uncertain Territories ' first volume Contingency . I will write a short post on this editorial project this weekend. I hope you all work hard…Good Luck!!!
Colombian architect Luis Callejas just launched the 33rd volume of Pamphlet Architecture , a volume entitled Island and Atolls . Some months ago, his office announced to have been awarded by Pamphlet Architecture for their 33rd volume .
Luis Callejas belongs to a list of architects including Mason White and Lola Sheppard of Lateral Office , Neeraj Bhatia of Lateral Office and Petropia , Smout Allen , to limit to these few names, I've been following for awhile.
Note that Luis Callejas regularly collaborates with Lateral Office — I cite a few of these projects: Hydroborders , Klaksvik City Center , and Weatherfield .
This Pamphlet Architecture will be a great occasion for me to have a better glance at his work.
I will order my copy rapidly, this week, (despite a two/three-week wait certainly due to a problem of distribution via Amazon France), and with evidence, will go back to this little publication as soon as possible. This being said, Luis Callejas is presenting a series of drawings at Storefront for Art and Architecture , in New York in the framework of the exhibition POP: Protocols, Obsessions, Positions , until July 26.
For those, me included, who didn't have the chance of visiting the first edition, POP: Protocols, Obsessions, Positions is Storefront For Art and Architecture 's annual drawing show whose ambition is to discuss, transform our understanding of architectural drawings in the 21st century. This new edition gathers drawings of Amale Andraos of WorKAC , Adam Frampton , Ada Tolla & Giuseppe Lignano of LOT-EK , Eric Owen Moss , Fernando Romero of FREE , Form_ula , Gia Wold , Hayley Eber of EFGH , Filipe Magalhaes & Ana Luisa Soares of Fala Atelier , Lola Sheppard of Lateral Office , Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates , Marcelo Spina & Georgina Huljich of P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S , Arturo Scheidegger & Ignacio Garcia Partarrieu of UMWELT , Bernard Tschumi , Caroline O'Donnell of CODA , Hedwig Heinsman of DUS , James Wines , Juan Herreros , Mark Shepard , Michel Rojkind , Michele Marchetti of Sanrocco , Neil Spiller , Norman Kelley , Odile Decq , Rafi Segal , Ryan Neiheiser , Giancarlo Valle & Isaiah King of Another Pamphlet , Stan Allen , Veronika Valk , Viviana Peña of Ctrl G , Yansong Ma of MAD and Luis Callejas & Melissa Naranjo of LCLA Office .
It's a good occasion to propose here a drawing of both Callejas and Naranjo for the moment when I will receive my copy. This drawing is titled Serrana and Quitasueño . Luis Callejas and Melissa Naranjo despict this drawing as:
Serrana and Quitasueño ı part of Pamphlet Architecture 33. Islands and Atolls | Luis Callejas and Melissa Naranjo/ LCLA Office, 2013
Hand cut collage on original maps
Courtesy of Luis Callejas and Melissa Naranjo/ LCLA Office
Then I profit from this post to remind you this important information: two weeks left for sending me your abstract for Uncertain Territories ' first volume Contingency . I will write a short post on this editorial project this weekend. I hope you all work hard…Good Luck!!!
Colombian architect Luis Callejas just launched the 33rd volume of Pamphlet Architecture , a volume entitled Island and Atolls . Some months ago, his office announced to have been awarded by Pamphlet Architecture for their 33rd volume .
Luis Callejas belongs to a list of architects including Mason White and Lola Sheppard of Lateral Office , Neeraj Bhatia of Lateral Office and Petropia , Smout Allen , to limit to these few names, I've been following for awhile.
Note that Luis Callejas regularly collaborates with Lateral Office — I cite a few of these projects: Hydroborders , Klaksvik City Center , and Weatherfield .
This Pamphlet Architecture will be a great occasion for me to have a better glance at his work.
I will order my copy rapidly, this week, (despite a two/three-week wait certainly due to a problem of distribution via Amazon France), and with evidence, will go back to this little publication as soon as possible. This being said, Luis Callejas is presenting a series of drawings at Storefront for Art and Architecture , in New York in the framework of the exhibition POP: Protocols, Obsessions, Positions , until July 26.
For those, me included, who didn't have the chance of visiting the first edition, POP: Protocols, Obsessions, Positions is Storefront For Art and Architecture 's annual drawing show whose ambition is to discuss, transform our understanding of architectural drawings in the 21st century. This new edition gathers drawings of Amale Andraos of WorKAC , Adam Frampton , Ada Tolla & Giuseppe Lignano of LOT-EK , Eric Owen Moss , Fernando Romero of FREE , Form_ula , Gia Wold , Hayley Eber of EFGH , Filipe Magalhaes & Ana Luisa Soares of Fala Atelier , Lola Sheppard of Lateral Office , Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates , Marcelo Spina & Georgina Huljich of P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S , Arturo Scheidegger & Ignacio Garcia Partarrieu of UMWELT , Bernard Tschumi , Caroline O'Donnell of CODA , Hedwig Heinsman of DUS , James Wines , Juan Herreros , Mark Shepard , Michel Rojkind , Michele Marchetti of Sanrocco , Neil Spiller , Norman Kelley , Odile Decq , Rafi Segal , Ryan Neiheiser , Giancarlo Valle & Isaiah King of Another Pamphlet , Stan Allen , Veronika Valk , Viviana Peña of Ctrl G , Yansong Ma of MAD and Luis Callejas & Melissa Naranjo of LCLA Office .
It's a good occasion to propose here a drawing of both Callejas and Naranjo for the moment when I will receive my copy. This drawing is titled Serrana and Quitasueño . Luis Callejas and Melissa Naranjo despict this drawing as:
Serrana and Quitasueño ı part of Pamphlet Architecture 33. Islands and Atolls | Luis Callejas and Melissa Naranjo/ LCLA Office, 2013
Hand cut collage on original maps
Courtesy of Luis Callejas and Melissa Naranjo/ LCLA Office
two versions Storefront's facade as a 220 km long line extending over the degrees in latitude. The Sf's facade aligns with the newly redefined aquatic border between Colombia and Nicaragua in the currently redefined aquatic border between Colombia and Nicaragua in the currently disputed archipelago of San Andres and Providencia. What are the new
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