here’s a flickr pool with some interesting output from the material intelligence (intensive) fabrication and prototyping workshop held in new york city during the week of august 16-20.

…and a little more info on the process of the workshop:

the workshop progressed through a series of focused strategies beginning with material testing, followed by the development of prototypes, and arriving at aggregations of a single topological type. each prototype was created by simple operations, undertaken through a specific disposition, and evaluated for performative potentials. all assemblies were designed in an associative environment (grasshopper) and iteratively tested utilizing digital fabrication equipment (CNC 3-axis mill and CNC high-force cutter). the workshop concluded with a reception that exhibited design prototypes and full scale assemblies built by participants over the course of five days.

material Intelligence was conceived through a collaboration between studio mode/modeLab and tietz-baccon.

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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 (more…)

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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. (more…)

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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.   (more…)

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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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this tuesday saw the opening of chico monks exhibition at the robin gibson gallery in darlinghurst, sydney.  for the past four months monks has been manic in collecting vast quantities of scrap perspex, cutting, scratching and painting it in order to create a prolific collection of intriguing mini environments. (more…)

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quite an amazing video of a projection on form technique by visual designers who developed the above “augmented sculpture,” working in both 3-d and time-based media, presented to a public audience for the first time Grosse8/Lichtfront (more…)

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ufo scandinavia along with several other prominent european architecture practices have been invited to take part in an exhibition and lecture series at the jaroslav fragner gallery in the czech republic under the title more is less; big, bold and beautiful.

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and so begins our top five series.  this series show some of our current favourite flash/ processing interactive animations.  some are just fun where as others are visually complex and highly seductive.

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everyone loves looking at other peoples photographs, so why not take some time out to browse through futura2000’s flikr stream.  futura’s pioneering work in the 70’s revolutionized street art and propelled him into the pubic eye.  his knack for capturing fantastic snapshots of his daily encounters is documented in his new image per day blog.  check it out and be inspired.

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