Inspired by the old custom of doing Chinese calligraphy with water in public spaces, Nicholas Hanna brings his device to Beijing, trying to reconcile with the new customs.
Do-Ho Suh: Home Within Home
Do-Ho Suh's latest exhibition immediately invites us to an anthropology of space. Inside Home Within Home, Which is up to 22 October at Lehmann Maupin GalleryNew York, presents replicas of their former homes in Seoul, and Rhode Island. His work reflects
Wikihouse and hybrid houses, are suitable for social projects?
Joseph Sandy Hybrid House
The opinions about the project Wikihouse.cc are as varied as the fury of its history. From emerging communities enthusiastic that promote the enterprise based on the Open Source philosophy, led by Richard Stallman with the creation of free software and extended to other sectors such as architecture, the most ironicConsidering that the proposed solution could create a Favela Chic uninhabitable. The debate is on the table, and not just rotates around the issues of joint planning, or crowdsourcing. The questions are: is what we consider "poor" just an aesthetic question? A sleek and well done can permanently change the outlook (even knowing that it is cheap)? It will be welcomed by those who use them?
Maximo Riera, estrepitoso.
El último proyecto of Asturian Maximo Riera,The Animal Chair Collection, No te dejará indifferent. Opulentes robustas y sillas de negras great realism, tratan de evocar vitalidad y, según el autor,
Qué buscamos en el vintage
En los últimos años vivimos an important "retro" wave: las gafas de nuestras abuelas, los "gafa-pasta", los cambios en ilustraciones, typography, los bazares, and including the most recent fashion of Instagram, que hace que nuestras fotos emulen Lomo or Polaroid. "Cool", if creen. “Hipster”, agregan. Puede que muchos de vosotros piensen que este regreso estético, as the major part of the visual culture que vemos hoy, goes only direct to automatic consumption. Aunque sea cierto, también holds an internal meaning sufficient obvio que debemos observar.