.: May 2012

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

PROSTHETIC ARCHITECTURE

The body is the defining element in the relationship between architecture and health. Experiment involves the direct engagement of the body through the making of a prosthetic device. This device must act on the body in some way, acting critically on the way the body functions in space. It will involve a considered haptic experience. It will be made worn, experienced, felt.

It is important to focus on individual interactions and space with other. Especially since this lack of relationship is the primary cause of discomfort, depression, and conflict. The concept is to establish communication networks creating a minimum social spaces. The space would be not only a physical setting but also the bearer of meanings for individuals who are interacting with the prosthesis. The prosthesis would be a way to connect and establish interactions between individuals through individual meetings, experience of each and the relationship between them.

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

I'm Lovin' It?

Andrew King is considered an industry-leading thinker and practitioner in the interface between art and architecture in Canada. He has practiced, taught and lectured across Canada and in London, Berlin, Budapest, Rome, Seville and Copenhagen. For the past two decades King has led his design research initiative AKA/andrewkingstudio. In 2003, he was selected as one of Canada’s Design Leaders by the Globe and Mail. King has been awarded two of Canada’s prestigious critical awards: the Canada Council for the Arts Prix de Rome and a Canadian Architect Award of Excellence, and his work has been published in national and international art and architecture journals, including Canadian Architect and Canadian Art. His work has been recognized with provincial, national and international design awards.

King has had a long and continuous history as a visiting academic and critic at architecture and design schools across Canada and abroad, including Carleton University’s Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism, McGill University’s School of Architecture, the Royal Academy of Art in Copenhagen, Cornell University and many others.

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