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fractals & the art of roughness

July 28th, 2010 by dirk


(via archimorph)

at TED 2010, mathematics legend benoit mandelbrot develops a theme he first discussed at TED in 1984 — the extreme complexity of roughness, and the way that fractal math can find order within patterns Read the rest of this entry »

composite environments usyd

June 30th, 2010 by eduardo

jeimei shen & huan miao khoo

a selection of work from our students at university of sydney digital architecture research studio.  the work presented here is an image from each students design proposal in relation to their brief which aimed to investigate digital design and fabrication techniques specific to environment and location through composite strategies. Read the rest of this entry »

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lucy + bart : SHOWstudio

June 19th, 2010 by dirk

this saturday and sunday (19 and 20 june), our friends – artistic duo: lucy mcrae and bart hess of lucyandbart will collaborate with stylist alister mackie in a unique editorial shoot for anOther magazine.  lucyandbart will be crafting wondrous, one-of-a-kind sculptural extensions on models to explore and manipulate the expression of the human body,  nick knight will be shooting and SHOWstudio will broadcast all the action live from the set.

check out SHOWstudio’s site for further info + the streaming link: http://www.showstudio.com/

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father magnus wenninger

June 14th, 2010 by eduardo

monk, mathematician, and builder of polyhedrons and polytopes, father magnus wenninger has been working on his spherical paper models since the early sixties.   in doing so he  has journeyed on a path of mathematical enlightenment leading him to publish a host of books and feature in numerous journals that discuss his interests in polyhedrons, sphere tiling and dome structures.   Read the rest of this entry »

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ufo @ creative sydney 10×10

June 2nd, 2010 by dirk


we’ve just been nominated by chris bosse for the creative sydney 10×10 night launching this friday at the MCA, circular quay, sydney!

a little more info on the 10×10 project…

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urban future (au) – expansion & new office

May 28th, 2010 by dirk

we’ve finally moved back into the city from the beaches! the sydney office has now expanded and is now located at:

184-186 st. johns road
glebe. nsw. 2037
+61 295 716 336

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fifteen years of urban future exhibition

May 26th, 2010 by dirk

this thursday, london metropolitan will host the opening night of an international travelling exhibition that documents the first fifteen years of urban future organization. Read the rest of this entry »

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tom verebes – computational urbanism lecture

May 20th, 2010 by dirk

tom verebes (OCEAN UK) will be presenting a lecture at uts next tuesday entitled ‘computational urbanism: strategies confronting rapid urbanisation and the problem of disposable buildings’. Read the rest of this entry »

urban future + revista

May 12th, 2010 by dirk

urban future (au) were recently invited to participate in architectura 21 – a map of young architecture practices with portuguese links.  luckily, being an international practice, we had one to deliver.  the article profiles the tri-wall, a collaboration between the offices of urban future , studio wsh and the university of technology sydney (mda Lab) which featured as the interior space for the transcapes / artificial nature exhibition launched at the uts gallery, sydney.

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refraction engine: australian fashion week

May 10th, 2010 by tim

over the past few weeks, one of our number has been working on a ‘refraction engine’ for the australian fashion week.

in collaboration with tim richardson for fashion label friedrich gray, we worked on the brief  which called for an ‘exploded glass’ sculpture as a futuristic gateway to the collection.  with the collection titled ‘refraction’, the piece took a fractal geometry approach to a practical level, breaking down the images of the models and shearing them into shards of light and dark. Read the rest of this entry »

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