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Architecture of Change - Sustainability and Humanity in the Built Environment (PingMag - The Tokyo-based magazine about “Design and Making Things”)
Ping Magazine interview with Berlin-based Kristin and Lukas Feireiss on their book, _Architecture of Change - sustainability and humanity in the built environment_, regarding the "conscious contradiction in the title — changing and sustaining. But how can I change and sustain at the same time? This challenge is what we try to put across."
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There’s more to architecture than its simple purpose of shelter or protection, a cast to architecture. However they are creating social environments, urban spaces and the public spaces where people actually interact. So they are the catalyst for social interaction, for society to work in. This is a big topic and we can go from dictatorial architecture to that of social engagement.
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This book gives a broad overview of what’s possible in sustainable building practices or social practices in architecture. So it ranges from economically speaking very simple, modernistic architecture to very free-flowing, avant-garde forms; from small, private houses to school buildings to skyscrapers, to federal buildings. It’s not restricted at all to one certain section. And secondly it comprises all these ideas that are in a state of research or initiative.
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Bonus: gorgeous pictures/ illustrations.
Wouldn't mind having a copy of this book!
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Architecture in Tokyo: Omotesando Steet II, Pt II - PingMag - The Tokyo-based magazine about “Design and Making Things”
Part 2 of a fascinating trek down Omotesando Street in Tokyo, which seems studded front to back with "starchitect" buildings.
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Excusado Printsystem: Street Art in Colombia - PingMag - The Tokyo-based magazine about “Design and Making Things”
Feast your eyes...! Ping Mag does it again: the street art featured here is Manet for today, is Courbet for contemporaries, is Beckmann for boys (and girls), is Frans Hals and Velasquez for very heavy kids of all persuasions, is just fantastic.
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The Many Facets Of Tomoko Sawada - PingMag
This is beautiful, and incredible. Tomoko Sawada works, I guess, at the interstices of art and acting, a whole new calibre of performance art perhaps? It's incredible stuff, at any rate. "Who is she?" asks the article. Obviously so talented that it's easy enough to want to look, but tricky enough to make you think.
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Boogie: Bleak Street Lifes (PingMag - The Tokyo-based magazine about “Design and Making Things”)
Interview with "Serbian photographer Boogie [who] grew up in the war-torn region of former Yugoslavia, documenting protests and the disturbing portraits of skinheads. After moving from Belgrade to Brooklyn in 1998, he started observing New York’s bleak street side of life with monochrome shots. Distinctively, his work isn’t emphatic. He doesn’t judge. He is more reporting on a not so distant universe with a fine eye for detail - and a lot of guts. He showed PingMag his depiction of Brooklyn gang life and junkies." Boogie notes: "'This whole life is a bunch of choices you make and they just made a couple of wrong ones,' says photographer Boogie about his series on junkies in Brooklyn."
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BankART: Creating Art Spaces in Yokohama: PingMag - The Tokyo-based magazine about “Design and Making Things”
- description of re-purposed spaces (esp'y banks no longer in use) for creative space (Yokohama)
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PingMag - The Tokyo-based magazine about “Design and Making Things” » Archive » Mafuyu’s Knitted Homes
- this is terrific: Mafuyu Murakami knits, passionately. She knits all kinds of beautiful things, including houses you can wear. Really. Reminded me of a line in The Avengers' episode, "Something Nasty in the Nursery": Steed & Mrs.Peel have to burst in on The Arkwright Knitting Circle, run by an ex-CEO who directs a dozen grandmothers in knitting projects. "What are they knitting?" Steed asks casually as he & Emma chase the bad guy. "A bungalow," answers the shaken Mr. Arkwright. Mafuyu, needless to say, is way past the starter bungalow stage already!
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