Assam Smati at Jardin des Tuileries, FIAC 2010

Dos Santos, 2007Wood
720 x 560 x 135 cm
by Assam Smati

OCCUPATION: Movements II & III (Syscape#4)

Beautiful animation by  video artist Eric Schockmel. I love the aesthetic he uses here. And the soundtrack is pretty cool too.

The Yuko Sueta Art Auction Benefit

LabDORA Opening

A recent work, the amazing M'ugly Tower.

more on labdora.com

Dynamic City Foundation

Dynamic Density - the organic reality behind China's master plan


Neville Mars from the Dynamic City Foundation will give a lecture at Columbia University, NYC on the 6 of October 2008.

Neville is currently in a lecture tour around the world, promoting his new book " THE CHINESE DREAM - a society under construction ", wich i strongly recommande. Its an amazing prospective book about chinese urbanity, questionning paradoxes of China's struggle for change.
More info on Dynamic City Foundation
Those young architects, based in Beijing, are also developing a very good collaborative research wiki Burb Tv.
Among the dozens of projects showed on this plateforme, Neville Mars and his team have been produced some amazing theorical works. The Beijing Boom Tower seems to me as a manifesto. Not to mention the quality of the production, especialy with this amazing oversized interactive model :






All visuals by DCF / Burb TV

SANAA : Works 1998-2008 at The New Museum

Now on view at The New Museum , in New York city until June 15 2008, a beautiful and very refreshing exhibition about the work of the japanese architecture studio SANAA. An interesting detail is that the radical and minimalistic New Museumhas been designed by SANAA. Located on Bowery  , this building shows that there are possible alternative to condos in high density urban context, in terms of contemporary architectural design.

The exhibition shows a lots of models, full of details and creativity. It's about lights, flowers, simple geometries and complex programs. At the opposite of 3D rendering exhibitions that we are used to see nowdays.

Another day in New York

Building with nature in Beacon , upstate ny,

Skin crime n°6 by Sylvie Fleurie at the Armory show

an amazing piece , Tool Table by Thomas Hirschhorn at the Armory show




Inflatable respiration,


Farhad Moshiri


Vintage Vinyl by Tom Burr


Foundation of New York at Grand Central

Saint Marks book store








A plastic bench in Beacon, Hommage to Bertand Segers, a friend and a great architect

photo by Katja Rahlwes


Corporate money,

Bertrand Segers lecture in Paris

maison arbre - encre de chine sur arches by Bertrand segers
Bertrand Segers, Architecte - Colporteur, will give a lecture next Wednesday the 27 of February, at Paris-Malaquais school of architecture in Paris. He will speaks about the limits of the representation of living space.
maison in/out 2 - aquarelle au bleu de Lectoure sur arches by Bertrand Segers


In french , OUARPO : limites de la représentation et de l'espace habité.

Dans le cadre du cycle de conférences "Dessin et Représentation : comment communique-t-on les idées ?"

" Le dessin occupe une place importante dans mon travail d’architecte et d’artiste. Il me permet de répondre aux rôles de praticien, enseignant et chercheur. C’est sur ces trois modes que la présentation s’articulera en revêtant le dessin de statuts différents, de la posture critique à la systématisation de l’explicitation en passant par l’analyse et la carte de voyage, et en le frottant à d’autres outils de la représentation de l’architecture. "
Bertrand Segers

Ecole paris Malaquais
Mercredi 27 février 2008 à 18h30
Amphi 2 des Loges / Entrée libre

maison pont levis - aquarelle au bleu de pastel sur arches by Bertrand Segers



sheds - aquarelle au bleu de pastel sur arches by Bertrand Segers

la tour la plus haute du monde - aqurelle et encre sur arches b y Bertrand Segers





résidentialisation - aquarelle sur arches by Bertrand Segers

Bertrand is a real searcher,always looking for new solutions ans new way of expressions, and he has also a great sens of humour, i am sure its gonna be a very good moment. So be there. And as i cant be in Paris at this time, i will be glad if someone can do a report of the lecture and tell me more about it ...