Monday, January 30, 2012
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Saturday, January 28, 2012
Friday, January 27, 2012
Splash ! Slotche !
C'est le pas qui crispe dans la neige très froide. Ce mélange de neige, de calcium et de saletés que les Montréalais appellent slotche, avec un t, une varainte s'éloignant de l'original en anglais slush et se rapprochant du bruit que fait le pas dans la substance en question : d'abord slo, l'enlissement dans la glu, ensuite t, ça claque, c'est l'arrachement sec, enfin che, le dégagement, ça coule.
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Monday, January 23, 2012
23th January
Materiality, Memory, and Evanescence
Ricardo L. Castro studio
Current design practices often focus, with a total lack of a critical attitude, on virtual representation. Architects responsible for place-making seem to have lost touch with one of the most important ingredients of their practice, material substance, which has been replaced by representations that when translated into space and form acquire the most banal overtones. Re-thinking the idea of a materiality that engages with our sentient body seems to be an urgent priority in contemporary architectural practice. By the same token, although active in everyday language, history as a living entity, both individually and socially, has increasingly been displaced from the critical sources that help shaping a design, whether a building, a landscape, a topography… We have forgotten to remember collectively, we have forgotten history. Yet the importance of memory cannot be overstated. Italian philosopher Benedetto Croce’s dictum that “all history is contemporary history” is more pressing now than ever before. Finally, the ideas of impermanence, humility, asymmetry, and imperfection, which the Japanese call “wabi-sabi” as it were, underscore the notion of evanescence. In Japan, this concept has informed and guided artists, designers, architects, writers, musicians, craftsmen, and philosophers since immemorial times. Wabi-sabi is an elusive idea but an important one in our present historical condition. It transcends frontiers and has full validity in contemporary design practice. Materiality, Memory, and Evanescence will be the three guiding principles of our design explorations this term.
Sunday, January 22, 2012
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Monday, January 16, 2012
Research Week Presentation
Lipstick Forest,Claude Cormier, Montréal
Our perception of our
surroundings is the result of an experience based on movement through a site.
With each step, we are presented with a different view of the landscape and
objects in it. It is only by moving through space that our surroundings truly
become alive, through the effect of parallax, among other things. Contrary to
the static composition of a still image, objects move in relation to one
another as one moves about the site.
Richard Long, Walking a line in Peru, 1972
Richard Long's sculpture are created during multi day
walks. During his walks, Long experiences the site and the landscape in a more
sensitive way. All of this is
distilled into ephemeral sculptures that he then photographs. The result is a picture as a way for Long to share his
feeling and experience of the site. Seeing the picture and knowing the process,
the viewer can really imagine what it was like to be there and move about the
site. The artist's movement through the landscape exists inside the artwork and is not accessible to the viewer except through their imagination.
Richard Serra, Clara-Clara
Serra conceives his sculptures for the viewer's
experience. It is really important to him for visitor's to move around and
inside it so they can feel the visual phenomenons and the changing relationship
between the sculpture and it's surroundings.The sculpture is not an object but more of an
interaction between the artwork, the environment and the viewer.
But how does this relate to our current project?
What we learned from this research is that the
movement is a way to understand the environment both visually and sensitively. We can imagine that moving inside and around the
architectural space is gonna be a way for people to be aware of the site. We could say that the day visitor's experience is much
more immediate so that it relates to Serra's work, while the resident artits will
have a more in depth experience of the site related more to Long's work
"It was a alluring presentation" Professor Ricardo Castro
Sunday, January 15, 2012
Saturday, January 14, 2012
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Mmmm !!!
Ingrédients
(4 personnes):
Ingrédient: - 8 bonnes grosses patates
- Fromage en grain
-un semi-glaçe de volaille de bœuf ou même d'agneau
- Crème 15% ou 35%
- Fromage en grain
-un semi-glaçe de volaille de bœuf ou même d'agneau
- Crème 15% ou 35%
Cette recette est typique du Québec.
La poutine c'est une masse de frite bien chaude avec du fromage en grain avec une ''Sauce brune'' ou ''sauce à poutine'' faisant fondre en partie le fromage, le ramollissant un peu.
L'histoire de la poutine... enfin la plus répandue jusqu'à aujourd'hui serait qu'elle proviendrait d'un restaurant autrefois appelé Le lutin qui rit à Warwick, près de Victoriaville. Selon la légende, un client nommé Eddy Lainesse a demandé au propriétaire Fernand Lachance, d'ajouter de la sauce sur ses pomme de terre frites avec du fromage en grains dans un sac de papier, comme on servait parfois les frites à l'époque, et le propriétaire aurait répondu:« Ça va faire une maudite poutine », d’où le nom qui veut dire « mixture étrange ».
Bonne journée et bon appétit !
On a frosty morning
Avec toutes les pelures qu'il faut se mettre sur le dos, les pieds, la tête, le cou et les mains et ensuite ôter, je préfère rester au studio.
Monday, January 9, 2012
Sunday, January 8, 2012
Saturday, January 7, 2012
Quizz à New York
Foster + Partners
Renzo Piano
Jean Nouvel
Frank Lloyd Wight
Herzog & De Meuron
Gehry
Yoshio Taniguchi
SANAA
Mies Van der Rohe
Morphosis
James Corner Field
Tadao Ando
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Sunday, January 1, 2012
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