72 Hour Urban Action

The world's only real-time architecture competition improves urban life

Swinging through NYC’s Center for Architecture this evening, the 72 Hour Urban Action USA roadshow will hold a presentation going over last year’s competition held in the city of Bat-Yam, just south of Tel Aviv-Jaffa. The 72 Hour Urban Action event is an international rapid architecture and design festival held every two years. Defined by a lack of time, space and funds, the efforts are …

Dig

Explorations in form as artists carve out a foam-filled room

Fresh off Perrier-Jouët‘s Bi-Centenaire Project (more on that later), Daniel Arsham has a new installation and performance piece debuting this week in NYC. “Dig”, in collaboration with Arsham’s firm Snarkitecture, comprises of completely filling the gallery space at the Storefront for Art and Architecture with white architectural foam. Arsham and his fellow Snarkitects will occupy the space during the monthlong installation, excavating the foam filled …

Fatto a Mano for the Future

Fendi and architects Aranda/Lasch interpret organic algorithms through craftsmanship

Technology and craft are common buzzwords these days, but the recent collaboration between Fendi and architecture duo Aranda/Lasch explores the duality with an unusual concept. Dubbed “Modern Primitives,” the project started with Aranda/Lasch’s sculptural installations based on a crystal structure and its “forbidden symmetries”, which debuted at the 2010 Venice Biennale before landing stateside at Design Miami last December. The sculptures, the result of the …