a rather interesting discussion with the chicago designer/educator kevin henry about visualizing the future(s) that started on wednesday, december 3rd in halle a, at the oth: university of applied sciences regensburg, department of architecture and continued on thursday, december 4th at the design academy regensburg with the oth’s iD1 crew in conjunction with students from […]
gestalten lehren – auf der kippe ?
the institute for art education at the university of regensburg
paraphrasing rather that translating the german title (for the venue held this week by institute for art education in conjunction with other partners*) could be close to “art and design education at the tipping point”
or “art & […]
dodecahedron
an excerpt from the above link:
the dodecahedron has been a source of metaphysical interest for at least two thousand years. like a crystal or gem, its facets and symmetries compel our eyes
& hearts to observe life more deeply. some have believed that the dodecahedron represents an idealized form of divine thought, will, or […]
aboutForm & – porcelain / function / meaning
bauhaus university weimar: summaery 2014
here are a few examples of the student’s process guides:
group 12: | knufmann, pauthner, siemens & turinsky |
group 11: | brunner, groß, hanke & kainz |
group 10: | baum, martens, pielmeier & vander bee |
group 09: | […]
the bavarian state government officially opened a 20th-century state museum in nuremberg on on april 15, 2000. the new museum, was design by berlin-based architect volker staab. today, the iD1 cew visited the current exhibit of amish quilts and american artist james turrell’s installations and graphic art. here are just a few visual impressions from […]
in 2004 at the age of 71, a native son and artist, lothar fischer, died just days before his new museum in neumarkt, opened. his life’s work lives on in the lothar fischer museum, located at weiherstraße number 7a, neumarkt, oberpfalz, along with other varied creations from notable artists. the collection is housed in a […]
indian summer and the beginnings of autumn in brooklyn, brandenburg, berlin and bavaria. in memoriam of my good friend doug mulaire who died on september 8th; ines and i will miss him dearly and all the good times we shared together . . .
here are two interesting examples of ian hossack’s architecture in england. the first is a public building with a rather striking visual presence of forms in space . . .
http://www.a3associates.net/
the second example here is a thorough design rejuvenation of a private residence in south west london. for more information, please use the address link […]
people who love to eat are always the best people . . .
julia child
will design for food: a workshop linking food to your design metabolism . . .
the work method for this venue was a combination of an iterative, trial / error and prototyping process toward the culmination of a final design […]
there is an ennobling process of objects (animate & inanimate) with time. one term used, in german, to describe the outcome of this process is edelrost. i happen to personally like this german term because it reminds me of an excerpt from johann wolfgang von goethe’s, das göttliche: edel sei der mensch, hilfreich und gut! […]
