San Francisco, 1906
The Miles Brothers, A Trip Down Market Street, 1906
Post-Traumatic Urbanism| AD September 2010
Our project The Diversity Machine and The Resilient System has been published in the September edition of Architectural Design.
NTUT Wall Competition
I was very pleased this morning to find that I have won a Judges Selection Award for my entry into The National Taipei University of Technology, biannual Design Competition. The competition summoned a great response with over 300 submissions, and asked entrants to conceptually define their own notion of an ecological ‘wall’;
Winning proposals are on exhibition at NTUT, and will be compiled into a book for distribution later this year. I proposed an urban agriculture intervention for dense residential areas, you can take a look at the full scheme below.
NTUT Wall Competition Entry | Clare Johnston
NTUT Wall Competition Entry | Clare Johnston
Service Beyrouth
A taxi ride I took from Downtown Beirut to Ain el Mreisseh, along an interesting stretch of the corniche.
Berlin to Frankfurt
On an Inter City Express from Berlin to Frankfurt
PechaKucha Night Sydney
If you are free tonight, come along and see us (The Diversity Kids!) present one of our projects at PechaKucha. Running as a part of the National Architecture Conference, Pecha Kucha Volume 15 is to be held at 2 Hill Street Surry Hills, there is limited tickets available at the door. See the full line up of presenters here
SONA Projector Initiative
Get involved during extra/ordinary, and submit images of your recent work for exhibition at the SONA Pavilion. Designed by UTS student Martin Abbott, Pavillion will be housed inside the Form + Function Expo during the National Conference in Sydney.
“Martin will project images of your work for all to see and admire. Thousands of visitors are expected through the doors of the Sydney Conference and Exhibition Centre at Darling Harbour along with all the National Conference delegates during the 3 day event.”
- Send images to clare.l.johnston@gmail.com
- Maximum of 2 slides per project
- 800 x 600 pixels
- 72 dpi
- Optional text on each slide
- Name
- University
- Year level
- Brief description of project
7m bar
unhappyhipsters.com
click here for a bit of wit and humor - http://unhappyhipsters.com/page/1
Our project has been published in the Summer edition of Architectural Review to accompany an article written by Adrian Lahoud.
INDEX: UTS School of Architecture Exhibition 2009
The Diversity Machine and The Resilient System
The studio has come to a close – you can see the full project here diversitymachine.net
SEOUL – PLATFORM 09 – AVPD
On a recent stop over in Seoul, my fellow travelers and I stumbled upon a fantastic exhibition in Kimusa – once the site of the South Korean Defense Security Command, now a cluster of derelict buildings. The annual exhibition – Platform, featured a number of local as well as international contributers, and was framed around the theme ‘Void Of Memory’, exploring time the relationship between time, memory and space, as well as ideas of ‘New Institutionalism’.
For me the clear highlight of the exhibition was Danish collective AVPD’s instillation, Stalker II (2009). This work constructs a multifaceted infinite interior, choreographed by the specific placement of mirrors in the corners of a former office space. The angle of the mirrors allow for a 360 degree view of the space from each of the four corners. Within the instillation is impossible to see your own reflection front on-
AVPD write;
Instead of observing one’s mirror image the subject perceive oneself from behind as if she is watching a another person from behind. Apart from being one’s own observer the mirror reflections forces the subject to observe all other present subjects in the installation and simultaneously being observed by them.
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Tripoli International Fair – Oscar Niemeyer
commissioned; 1963
civil war halts work; 1975
current status; incomplete
[Image: Experimental Concert Hall, interior; Photo by Clare Johnston
[Image: Experimental Concert Hall, interior; Photo by Clare Johnston]
