sábado, 25 de junho de 2011
[] Trabalho em equipa . Architect Mike . He built the dome. Fortunately he didn't choose the colour
'He built the dome. Fortunately he didn't choose the colour'
Mike Davies, the driving force behind the Millennium Dome, talks to Hannah Baldock
- The Guardian,
- Article history
Architect Mike Davies doesn't just dress in red - he drives a red Jaguar with red leather seats, writes in red ink with a red pen and studies the stars from his roof through 22 red telescopes. "Colour is a vehicle to exploring life," says Davies, a founding partner of Richard Rogers Partnership. "The range inherent in a colour is so incredible." In his spare time he paints "symphonies in red", and he still adheres to an idealism of art that many left behind at college.
He had been doodling the Millennium Dome in red - a sketch similar to the one with which he started the £758m project in 1996. It was, he says, "a simple, honest, elegant and minimalist answer to a very big, simple problem".
With the day of judgment on his brainchild fast approaching, is he feeling the pressure? Not at all: "Having a deadline that can't be moved is fantastic. There is a palpable atmosphere that we are on a ship in the middle of the Atlantic and none of us can jump off. Everyone is committed to making it a success."
If this upbeat attitude sounds improbable, Ove Arup & Partners director Chris Wise, who has worked with Davies for more than 11 years, says it rings true to his character. "He is a real enthusiast and a dreamer," says Wise. "Maybe that's what enables him to do difficult projects like the dome. He'll take the bad and the good and do the best he can in situations which someone else would run away from."
This charm and enthusiasm overwhelms one's initial response to the garish attire. Wise says he was horrified when he first set eyes on him, but after a couple of hours it was apparent that Davies had the strength of character to carry it off.
Despite sometimes vitriolic media scrutiny, Davies says he has no qualms about the cost of the dome, and few about its design. "We are only the cover - which is £42m, or 7% of the total project cost."
He did not set out to create a great monument, but rather a natural public gathering place. "The dome should not be over-read. In fact, it is not an architecture project at all. It is a lightweight, loose-fit, friendly cover. It is the lightest large-scale structure on the planet. And it's festive. It is no accident it does this," he says, showing how the dome's yellow masts resemble outstretched arms in his doodle.
If Davies weathers controversy well, it maybe because he is no stranger to it. His other current project - the £8bn Heathrow Terminal Five for BAA, four times bigger than the dome and perhaps even more controversial - has been mired in a public inquiry since 1995. Davies expects to be the terminal's project director after the dome opens. Although the project has been dogged by delays, changes in the brief and cost-cutting drives, he is optimistic about its future: "Further expansion is inevitable - it just has to be done responsibly."
Has he ever hankered after his own practice? "No, because I'm a team player. We are an amazing problem-solving team. I have worked with seven of the guys for 27 years, so there is a certain commonality of feel to us that has been useful. The shorthand between us is very good. We have a lot of skill and experience from having done odd projects like Pompidou, Lloyd's, Channel 4, the dome. Compared with run-of-the-mill buildings, you learn so much."
He says the concept of a signature architect is an anachronism. "The days of Norman [Foster] have gone, the days of Richard have gone," he says. "The days of multidisciplinary top-end practices are here." As Davies is a man who has never lost the ideals of flower power, you tend to believe this non-egotistical stance.
Born in Wales, Davies lived in Egypt and Cyprus as a child and travelled with his geographer father to 18 countries before his 18th birthday. "It gave me a wonderful architectural education," he says. "I got to stand inside the Great Pyramid of Giza when I was 11 - although it was standing beside the Skylon at the 1951 Festival of Britain when I was nine that made me want to be an architect." He studied at the Architecture Association with two of the other Richard Rogers founders, Marco Goldschmied and John Young. In those days, Davies wore electric purple. He went on to do an MA at UCLA and stayed in California to co-found a multidisciplinary practice, Chrysalis, which did 52 projects in three years, including the Pepsi Cola pavilion at the Osaka Expo in 1970. He joined Renzo Piano and Rogers shortly after the practice won the contract for the Pompidou Centre in 1971. It was while working on it that he switched from wearing purple to red: "I used to get my bottom pinched on the Paris metro. It was the code colour for the Parisian gay community," he explains, "so I thought it was time to change. I thought, what's another wonderfully rich, cheerful colour to explore?"
Sartorial idiosyncrasies aside, what distinguishes Davies from his partners? Rogers is the public, and increasingly political, face of the practice; Goldschmied is seen as the business brain; Young is credited with the design strength. What is Davies's forte?
"I enjoy all aspects of the process," he says, "but I particularly enjoy starting the concept design, because I think it's the most difficult and interesting thing to do. We have this 95% adage. Getting the concept right at the beginning is 80% of the battle. During the course of the design development, construction and evolution of the client's brief, you can regain another 15%. You never get the last five. That's why we continuously tune if we can." '
Disponível na web em:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/1999/jul/26/artsfeatures.architectureweek1999
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sexta-feira, 31 de dezembro de 2010
quarta-feira, 29 de dezembro de 2010
[] Cor
- Lumière &t couleurs
http://www.profil-couleur.com/lc/000-lumiere-couleur.php
Mais Informação em:
http://www.commentcamarche.net/contents/video/lumiere.php3
terça-feira, 28 de dezembro de 2010
segunda-feira, 13 de dezembro de 2010
[] Bibliografia
ARQUITECTURA
[] PHAM Thanh Hien (1998). Abstraction and Transcendence: Nature Shintai, and Geometry in the Architecture of Tadao Ando. US:Universal Publishers/ Dissertatiom.com.
ARTE
[] DEWEY, John (2008). El arte como experiencia. Barcelona: Paidós.
[] GIL, José (2010). A Arte como Linguagem. Lisboa: Relógio d'Água.
[] SUBIRATS, Eduardo (2003). El reino de la belleza.Madrid:Instituto Tecnológico y de estudios Superiores de Monterrey/ F.C.E.de España.
CATÁSTROFE
[] FAVIER, René & GRANET-ABISSET, Anne-Marie (2005). Récits et représentations des catastrophes depuis l'Antiquité. Grenoble: CNRS-MSH-Alpes.
- http://www.msh-alpes.fr/fr/recits-representations-catastrophes-depuis-antiquite[] FRIED, Johannes (2004). Les fruits de l'Apocalypse: Origines de la pensée scientifique moderne au Moyen Age. Paris: Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l'Homme.
[] SCHALLER, Peggy et al. (2007). Catastrophe and Representation. FACS. Florida Atlantic Comparative Stud.ies. Vol. 9. 2006_2007. Florida Atlantic University.
[] STRAUSER, Joëlle & BERT, Jean-François (dir.) (2009). Catastrophe(s)! In: Le Portique. Revue de Philosophie et de Sciences Humaines. 22. [cons. 25.01.2011].
COR
[] GAGE, John (2006). Colour in Art. London: Thames & Hudson.
DESENHO
[] RODRIGUES, Luís Filipe S. P (2010). Desenho, Criação e Consciência. Lisboa: Editora Bicho-do-mato.
EDUCAÇÃO
[] DEWEY, John (1997). Experience and education. Free Press. [] DEWEY, John (1997). Experience and nature. Pocket Books; Reprint edition [] DEWEY, John (2007). Democraty and education: an introduction to the philosophy of education. Echo Library
[] DEWEY , John (1989). The latter works, 1925-1953. Southern Illinois University Press.
ESTÉTICA
[] BERLEAND, Arnold (1991). Art and engagement. Philadelphia: Temple University Press,U.S.
[] BERLEAND, Arnold (1995). The aesthetics of environment. Philadelphia: Temple University Press,U.S.- http://books.google.pt/books?id=bNQq7xo-CiEC&pg=PR15&lpg=PR15&dq=%E2%80%A2+%22The+Environment+as+an+Aesthetic+Paradigm,%22+Dialectics+and+Humanism,+XV,+1-2/1988,+95-106.&source=bl&ots=EvWWcVd05G&sig=qEl3_BXEwEXOyB5Zf1inoKfB90Y&hl=pt-PT&ei=zg07TZ1Th77iBseHlZQK&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CCIQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false
- http://www.autograff.com/berleant/pages/environ.html
[] CARLSON, Allen & BERLEAND, Arnold (2004). The aesthetics of natural environments. Peterborough: Broadview Press Ltd.
[] CARLSON, Allen & BERLEAND, Ronald (2007). The Aesthetics of Human Environments. Peterborough: Broadview Press Ltd.
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[] DEWEY, John (2005). The art as experience. New York: Perigee Books.[] DICKIE, George (2008). Introdução à Estética. Lisboa: Bizâncio.
[] MORE, Ronald (2007). Natural Beauty. A Theory of Aesthetics Beyond the Arts.
[] SAITO, Yuriko (2007). Everyday Aesthetics. USA: Oxford University Press.[] TRÍAS, Eugenio (2006). O belo e o sinsitro. Lisboa: Fim de Século.
FILOSOFIA
Abertura /Mundo
[] SERRES, Michel (2010). Biogée. Brest: Éditions-dialogues.fr.
[] ________. (1994). Atlas. Lisboa: Piaget.
sexta-feira, 19 de novembro de 2010
[] Roman Opalka - Blanc absolu

L'Oeil - N° 629
Novembre 2010 - Par Piguet Philippe - 209 mots
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Tout de blanc vêtu, Roman opalka est debout devant sa toile, toujours la même dimension, 190 x 135 cm, un pinceau n° 0 en main'.
Disponível em:
http://www.artclair.com/oeil/archives/docs_article/79203/roman-opalka---vers-le-blanc-absolu.php
Ver mais em:
http://www.ina.fr/art-et-culture/litterature/video/I08050792/fondu-au-blanc-roman-opalka.fr.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKDyAb-dPvk
sábado, 13 de novembro de 2010
domingo, 31 de outubro de 2010
sexta-feira, 15 de outubro de 2010
[] Bernard Palissy

http://www.lekti-ecriture.com/librairie/livre/bernard-palissy/recette-veritable-9782865890507.html
'Dans la Recette (1563), Palissy s’affirme comme l’un des précurseurs du roman autobiographique, un visionnaire de la trempe de Rabelais ou de Campanella, qui transporte Thélème aux champs et restitue l’Éden perdu au milieu de la France désolée des guerres de Religion.
On rencontre ici, tour à tour,
- l’écologiste qui supplie qu’on cesse d’« avorter la terre » ;
- le huguenot, porté par une foi intransigeante, qui nous retrace au jour le jour les épreuves de la petite communauté réformée de Saintonge en proie aux persécutions ;
- l’inventeur d’un « jardin délectable », que Palissy décrit de bout en bout, avec ses « cabinets rustiques », ses cavernes factices, ses bosquets sculptés, ses mousses feintes, ses girouettes musicales ;
- l’architecte utopiste qui trouve l’inspiration de sa « ville de forteresse » dans la structure des coquillages ;
- le rêveur de la matière, qui voit dans le sel un principe unificateur du monde, et qui dialogue, par-delà les siècles, avec Léonard, Goethe ou Bachelard.
42 illustrations. Bibliographie. Glossaire. Deux index.'
ISBN:
9782865890507
EAN 13:
9782865890507
Date de parution:
Mai 2000
Format:
16 x 24 cm
Type de format:
Grand format
terça-feira, 28 de setembro de 2010
sábado, 28 de agosto de 2010
[1] Observatório Azul 1
Encontro com as novas tecnologias na preservação ambienal, seaswarm - apresentação de um produto para remoção do óleo no mar.
Arte
Site de arte contemporânea em Itália, TWISTER - Rete Musei Lombardia per l'Arte Contemporanea .
Um Museu em Milão: Museo del Novecento
Arquitectura> Bienal
Uma espreitadela no Facebook de Italo Rota, leva-me a uma iniciativa d' Italia 2050, com a formulação do convite a uma série de projectistas: Atelier Forte, Anna Barbara, ecoLogicStudio, herubino Gambardella, Ian+, Ma0, Marc, Metrogramma, Nowa/ Marco Navarra, Carlo Ratti, Italo Rota, Alessandro Scandurra, Beniamino Servino, Attilio Stocchi.
Livros
Esta sugestão interessa-me:
BARBARA, Anna & PERLISS, Anthony (2006). Invisible architecture : experiencing places through the sense of smell. Milano: Skyra.
Bio da Autora:
Ver na Web em:
http://www.headspace2010.com/speakers.html
Sobre odor ver na Web:
In/odore by diverserighe studio from Y Magazine on Vimeo.
http://www.ymag.it/schede.asp?id=6806
Assuntos: Arquitectura estética, percepção do espaço, cheiro
Bienal de Arquitectura de Veneza
[] AILATI. Reflections from the future . Pavilhão de Itália . Bienal de Arquitectura de Veneza