Monday 25 January 2010
Sunday 24 January 2010
Oscar Niemeyer buildings
Oscar Niemeyer is one of the most important geniuses of the 20th century. Taking inspiration from Le Corbusier, and essentially building up the whole city of Brasilia, his style not only defined modern Brazilian architecture, but became a milestone from a global perspective.
Futurism
I done some research on futurism that i found useful to look at.
Futurism began 100 years ago as a response to modern city life, breaking with old traditions and celebrating technology and industry.
Futurism Artists
Giacomo Balla (1871 - 1958)
Umberto Boccioni (1882 - 1916)
Kasimir Malevich (1878 - 1935)
Liubov Popova (1889 - 1924)
What is Futurism?
Futurism was a 20th century art movement. The Futurists loved speed, noise, machines, pollution, and cities; they embraced the exciting new world that was then upon them rather than hypocritically enjoying the modern world's comforts while loudly denouncing the forces that made them possible. Fearing and attacking technology has become almost second nature to many people today.
The Futurists explored every medium of art, including painting, sculpture, poetry, theatre, music, architecture and even gastronomy.
http://www.artinthepicture.com/styles/Futurism/
Futurism began 100 years ago as a response to modern city life, breaking with old traditions and celebrating technology and industry.
Futurism Artists
Giacomo Balla (1871 - 1958)
Umberto Boccioni (1882 - 1916)
Kasimir Malevich (1878 - 1935)
Liubov Popova (1889 - 1924)
What is Futurism?
Futurism was a 20th century art movement. The Futurists loved speed, noise, machines, pollution, and cities; they embraced the exciting new world that was then upon them rather than hypocritically enjoying the modern world's comforts while loudly denouncing the forces that made them possible. Fearing and attacking technology has become almost second nature to many people today.
The Futurists explored every medium of art, including painting, sculpture, poetry, theatre, music, architecture and even gastronomy.
http://www.artinthepicture.com/styles/Futurism/
Street Artist-Augustine Kofie
This guys work looked so heavy that i had to post it. I love he's style of painting, the shapes and lines he uses.
http://www.sohtanaka.com/web-design/kofie-graffiti/
http://01gallery.com/
http://keepdrafting.com/
Stephan Martiniere Artwork
I found these images of an artist called Stephan Martiniere who is currently the visual design director for Midway Games.
Artist- Julio Le Parc
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I found Julio Le Parc work very interesting. I like the capturing of the light, which looks good. He experiments a lot with light and movement, trying to find special effects using light and movement. He discovers how unique light and forms are.
Julio Le Parc is a modern Latin American kinetic Artist. He is one of the early sixty’s. He is Co-founder of the G.R.A.V (visual art research group) in Paris. He’s worked with light, movement and pubic participation for more than fifty’s years.
He talks more about he’s work:
http://www.julioleparc.org/en/index.php
Sculpture Artist- Joe Pogan
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Joe Pogan is a proud native of Oregon currently residing in Aloha. After serving four years in the Navy, he attended college to study art and welding. More than twenty years as a professional welder has enabled him to move up to the precise and demanding task of welding aluminum frame mountain bikes. He's used his unique combination of welding expertise and artistic talent for the last several years to create an amazing variety of animal sculptures using fascinating "found metal" objects.
He create animal sculptures using various "found metal" objects like old watches, sprockets, nuts and bolts.He talks about his work saying," the stranger the piece of metal the better, since the end goal is an eye-catching, fascinating amalgamation of metal with odd nooks and crannies you can explore for hours".
He start by welding a frame to make the general shape. Then He weld or braze the metal objects one at a time, to form the outer shell of the sculpture. He use a "blending" technique that leaves no space between the objects, so the sculpture looks solid. This allows him to hide interesting objects all over each piece, which enhances the excitement of discovery. Some of the works are mounted on a hardwood base that he finish with natural oil.He enjoys creating them.
I really like he's sculptures that he makes. I find the level of detail into he's sculptures is incredible. It looks very futuristic. I have chosen this artist where i am going to use the style of technique into my work what might look interesting.
http://www.joepogan.com/
Examples of building design plans
I looked at some examples of how an architecture will initially draw his building design plans, to show the clients whether it is good enough to start investing in.
Do you know what Architectures do?
i wanted to found out more information about what an architecture does, so i did some investigating on the internet and found out quite a lot of info on the subject.
An architect will design and build spaces of the future, as well as restoring and conserving old buildings. An architect’s work can involve planning the layout of groups of buildings and the spaces around them.
Architecture is the art, the science and the business of building.
Architects create homes, office towers, schools and churches. They are talented people with a flair for design, an awareness of social trends, keen business sense, solid engineering skills and an understanding of the law.
When producing a design, architects take into account all of their client’s requirements and a range of other issues including:
budget
safety
social factors
building regulations
planning laws
Once a design is agreed, architects will produce a further set of detailed drawings for the building contractor. These will contain precise dimensions and specified materials - with these they liaise closely with contractors. Engineers, surveyors, lawyers and planning departments regularly inspect the construction work to assess progress.
Architects will take responsibility for a building project from the earliest stage through to completion. On larger jobs a team of architects may work together to achieve this.
An architect will design and build spaces of the future, as well as restoring and conserving old buildings. An architect’s work can involve planning the layout of groups of buildings and the spaces around them.
Architecture is the art, the science and the business of building.
Architects create homes, office towers, schools and churches. They are talented people with a flair for design, an awareness of social trends, keen business sense, solid engineering skills and an understanding of the law.
When producing a design, architects take into account all of their client’s requirements and a range of other issues including:
budget
safety
social factors
building regulations
planning laws
Once a design is agreed, architects will produce a further set of detailed drawings for the building contractor. These will contain precise dimensions and specified materials - with these they liaise closely with contractors. Engineers, surveyors, lawyers and planning departments regularly inspect the construction work to assess progress.
Architects will take responsibility for a building project from the earliest stage through to completion. On larger jobs a team of architects may work together to achieve this.
Monday 18 January 2010
Architect showcase
Last Thursday jared organized a showcase preformed by the level 2 architecture students. They demonstrated their work of building designs which was pretty useful for us. This give us a general idea of what it takes, to come up with new designed buildings.
Here we go!
I have been giving a brief where a group of 4 to 5 students have to make a short film based on an environment of your choice. Today my group was finally made of 5 students who were committed to producing this project. The members to my group is Trish Phan, Marios Economides, Shuhel ahmed, Yemi Akande and myself. We believe that we are cable of producing an environment that will show teamwork, committed and organization. Well me will try!
Thursday 7 January 2010
Brief
For this project you will be working in teams of four or five students. You will all be working towards a final collaborative short film but will have the opportunity to fulfil clear and separate roles within the team.
• You will be working to create an animated environment.
• You will be collaborating not only with the other animators in your team, but also with designers from the environment design course.
• Their designs will form the starting point for your work.
This environment will be modelled in 3D, UV mapped, textured and lit based upon the research of materials and environments as initially designed or propsed by IDEAS students. This research will consist of practical site visits (such as the trip to Barcelona and alternative London based venues) and associated drawing and photography, as well as academic research via the web and the LRC.
This environment must demonstrate integral animation, it could be mechanical such as machinery, doors, windows, windmills etc, or it could be more organic, and atmospheric, such as the effects of wind on plants, weather conditions etc. It could be a much more long term animation to show the effect of years passing, rather than minutes. For those of you who feel that you are more character animators than computer visualisers you can focus upon contextualising the designed environment by populating it with characters using that environment, it may be that the environment is being used in an unintended or unexpected way that has evolved through public interaction with the space. (Was the South Bank designed for skateboarding or parkour?).
It may be easier for you to think about defining the way in which you will approach this project by choosing one of the themes listed below.
a) Changes over time (historic).
b) Changes in weather or lighting (climatic).
c) Changes in use of the environment (contextual).
Although you will be working as part of a team towards your final animation, you will also be required to provide evidence of your individual contribution to the project via a blogged design journal where you will document your personal research, experimentation, and acquiring of new skills.
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