OFF THE BOOKS

As you can see, the blog has been named 'Atelier RE'. To simply put it, Atelier RE: is the brand that I wiil conduct all  my architectural speculations, media investigations and overall design frenzy under. I have more details to come, and for the summer, please expect see more small daily posts, more essays and hopefully, more projects. I am currently re-visting my photo collections from my urban studios in Europe and China (2006). So please enjoy a few samples re-touched:

    

ADAM GREENFIELD AND MARK SHEPPARD - URBAN COMPUTING AND IT'S DISCONTENTS

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The following a 15 minute presentation of a discussion of Mark Sheppard and Adam Greenfield’s Urban Computing and its Discontents. The presentation was collaboration with fellow Media Design Students : Aarti Vashisht, Dee Kim and Ricardo Bojorquez.

Each slide was timed to about 20 seconds each. The original dialogue was originally two hours and edited to about 15 minutes. Each person in the group was given a 30 minute set to edit to about 3 to 4 minutes. The dialogues focused primarily on Sheppard and Greenfield’s concept of urban computing and ambient informatics.

Video to come soon....

TOXIC EXTRACTIONS

More details to come...

OPEN EGO

Done with Ina Xi and Dustin York of the Media Designer Program at Art Center as and enter for WSCA 2010

More details to come after the break








Open Ego is a pop-up store module designed specifically for the shopping activity taking place in Tokyo's narrow alleyways. The shop is made of translucent glowing panels with cut-out shapes that can be used as shelves, stools, displays, hangers etc., and that can be compacted to cubic piles of high mobility. Below is a set of slides articulating the concept and exploring the forms it may take. All the members participated in every step of the creation, while I focused more on the visual design. - Ina Xi

UPDATE: IRAQIMEMORIAL.ORG

Yes its been long and I have been busy. I just finished my Winter Break and submitted projects for Evolo Arch 2010, World Space Creators 2010 and irqimemorial.org. Below is a small transcript of the show that features the project entry I did with Vince Akuin.
The Iraqimemorial.org project will be a featured exhibition at the Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery at the University of Nevada, Reno, from February 15-March 12, 2010. The exhibition will feature over 60 of the proposals submitted to the project - specifically those proposals that were selected by the jurors in either the first or second juror's review process. The exhibition will as well feature computer kiosks for visitors to experience the iraqimemorial.org project online. A panel presentation featuring juror's and artists involved in the project is currently in the works. To date, Dr. David Simpson and Dr. Bernadette Buckley are slated to take part in this event. The panel is tentatively scheduled for March 4, 2010.

More details to come, and I do plan to post the other competition entries as well- along with some interesting stories of my adventures here in Art Center's Media Design Program. DO WORK!

MEET THE NELSONS

Recently, Wes Jones and Craig Hodgetts had a gallery Talk with Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design. See the flickr stream for more: Meet the Nelsons.
Exhibit is on until July 6th 2009, 6519 Hollywood Blvd.

PREFAB LAST SUMMER

a reason to live near Wilshire Center





Home Installation: really?

Well, before I dive into this subject I must mention that I am a big KieranTimberlake fan. More so, I believe that plug- in prefabrication win architecture will probably be re-evaluated in a more critical dialog of not just emergency and sustainable housing but economical housing- which is its current handicap in terms of being a pragmatic architecture.


Lastly, I am currently working on some more images for Design for the Children, even though the competition has passed, and I will be showing a re-visited LA housing project that I will be updated for the boards.




I had recently seen the new mall on Serrano/6th in LA Koretown these past few days- and I got say it looks promising since it includes a Korean based grocery store on the ground floor! Say what you want about the architecture, the program itself can make the Whilshire Cooridor in K-town look more promising. Now you have everything from metro lines/ law university to small clubs/ late night eating- what more can you want!?