MATERIAL DEFORMATIONS

Having been thinking about the manipulation and opening up of an existing, partially brick building on my site, it has been exciting to tumble through a series of images similar to those which are being constructed on my own drawing board.

Twisted bricks generate an oblique porosity in 

Studiomake's Dude Cigar Bar.

Increasingly spare steel verticals between horizontals creates a floating weightlessness of an otherwise seemingly 'solid' material in Gijs Van Vaerenbergh's 'Reading between the lines'. The project description and relation to the church typology is particularly compelling.

Back to bricks (or tiles, at least) at Arturo Franco's Warehouse 8B.

SPLASHING

Richard Serra, Splashing

In Splashing by Richard Serra (1968), the process of creation is embodied in the work: hardened lead thrown against the base of a wall when molten. Once solidified, the viewer is invited to reconstruct the action in their mind.

Richard Serra - Hand Catching Lead (1968)

STONE ON STONE

Patrick Lindell for Sveriges Stenindustriförbund
(Swedish Stone Industries)

ARCHITECTURE FROM WITHOUT

Thinking about theoretical framings, summers, and Diana Agrest.

"The refoules [repressed] of architecture, the public, the negation all become the material of my fictional configuration. The (project) marks I make are organised through a contradiction - a negation through an affirmation. [...] It is the affirmation of the erasure of the city in order to reinstate its trace."
-Architecture from Without: Theoretical Framings for a Critical Practice 1991.

Agrest moves within the discipline of Architecture, to be sure; her 'without' is internal, but silenced by the 'official' tales of Architecture. Her position is forced by these official erasures, a process which allows the erasure to become the recuperation of the erased, never entirely dismissed, completed only in and of the architectural project itself.

SILVER NITRATE

Reflecting the Bright Lights: Capturing a Moment with Silver Nitrate
from London Sessions Productions on Vimeo.