Yesterday the Massimo De Carlo Gallery presented ‘Karma’, the first solo show of the American artist Dan Colen. The installation Oh Shit – for the construction of which Colen has asked advise to the experienced team Karbaum / Atelier LC / studiometrico – is already rising discussion inside and outside Lambrate, the Milanese area where contemporary art and skateboarding sometimes bump into each others…
Japanese Architects from SANAA are not that interested in having a website. They are just too busy building stuff… And you can’t really blame them. In few days their Rolex Learning Center will open in Lausanne, a beautiful example of how to curve and manipulate reinforced concrete. To find out more just visit ArchDaily.
It took two months and several e-mails to dismiss my Linkedin account. I am not really into social networks, I just use Last.fm, that’s it. When I realized that people were still looking for me on an old Linkedin account that I had opened in 2000 on Jep advice and later abandoned, I decided to close it. But this hasn’t been easy at all. This is the e-mail that I had to write in the end to the Linkedin guys to achieve what I wanted.
To whom that might concern,
I am very, very disappointed to find out that, despite my numerous e-mails and after more than two months since my first request to dismiss it, my Linkedin account is still visible. I am really sorry to write this, but if my account is not going to be removed immediately I’ll have to use every legal mean in my possess against this illigal violation of my privacy.
Regards
Lorenzo Bini
Kaari Upson, drawing
The 12 of November at 19.00 in Via Ventura 5 – Milan, the Massimo De Carlo Gallery opens a new exhibition entitled Berlin – Los Angeles.
Simon Fujiwara, Klara Liden, Dan Rees, Kirstine Roepstorff, Nora Schultz, Josef Strau, Klaus Weber, Maximilian Zentz Zlomovitz, Frank Benson, Aaron Curry, Elad Lassry, Scott Olson and Kaari Upson – artists living and working in the two cities – will present their new works.
On Dezeen I bumped into this project that Adam Wojtalik, an architecture student, has proposed for the Delft University of Technology’s Faculty of Architecture that has been destroyed by fire in 2008. If ever built, would this become a new challenge for Danny Way?
While working tonight I have listened to the songs that Beck Hansen has published on Record Club, a new section of his website. Since he loves to play with his friends, Beck has decided to re-do and contaminate some fundamental records in the history of music. The beginning is quite promising: Songs of Leonard Cohen and The Velvet Underground & Nico. What else can I say… I can’t wait for the next one!
It’s simply impossible to keep track of Spike Jonze! Yesterday I was listening to a radio station, RadioPopolare, where they have this nice program named Alaska. I found out that he has eventually finished his new movie – out tomorrow in the U.S. and in few weeks in Italy – called WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE, inspired by a popular children book and very, very promising! In the meantime Jonze has put up a new blog and made a documentary about the author of the book, Maurice Sendak. If you think this is not enough you should know that the MoMA is celebrating the director with an exhibition titled The First 80 Years. You can visit Alaska blog for more information… But how come we have Obama leading the planet instead of Spike Jonze?
Archinect – in my opinion one of the best architecture blogs around – features this project named Evolver. It is a structure designed and built on the mountains in Zermatt by 2nd year students from the Alice Design Lab of the Lausnne University. I have to admit it is a little bit depressing to compare this guys skills with the ones of Italian students… anyway, I guess there are a lot of things you could do and build as a skater exploiting this knowledge!
Last night I bought the latest Abitare issue and I found out that artist Gabriel Orozco, together with architect Tatiana Bilbao, has built a fantastic house in Roca Blanca, on the cliffs, in front of the ocean and under the stars. The most spectacular element is a central pool with a diameter of 8 m, a section of a perfect sphere. Mmhh…
This Universe House, shot by Iwan Baan, has been posted on Abitare website. Nevertheless – differently from the magazine – the cross section, the most representative drawing to understand the size of the pool, is missing.
Scopettone (toilet sign)
Although for many I am simply “the architect” – and matter-of-factly that’s my hard and not so well respected profession – there’s someone (I am not going to tell the name, but it start with ‘j’ and ends with ‘ep’) that keeps on telling me now and then that, at the end of the day, I’d made a good graphic designer. Sometimes I think about it, and perhaps it’s true. For sure I am not a very prolific one, it’ already a lot if I produce one or two things per year. Anyway these are the works I made for bastard in the past… Read the rest of this entry »