Landscape photographer Kevin Cooley maps flightpaths with his beautiful series, Nachtfluge. Using a 4×5 large format camera and exposure times of 5 minutes or longer, Cooley links the horizon and night sky with gossamer strands.
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The LOTUS DOME, created by Studio Roosegaarde, is constructed with hundreds of ultra-light aluminum “flowers” fitted with lights and sensors. As people approach, the flowers open, revealing lights that slowly follow the individual. Set deep inside a 17th century church in Lille, France, the light and accompanying deep bass sound create reflections and shadows inside the dramatic ecclesiastical environment.
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Caleb Charland fastens wires to fruit and trees to power LEDs and other lights featured in his photographs. The resulting images are absolutely surreal, existing somewhere between grade school science projects and meticulously arranged still life compositions.
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The Cantinho do Ceu project by architect Marcos Boldarini is a linear park system that mediates between a series of informal settlements and the Billings Reservoir, located in the extreme southern zone of the City of São Paulo. It was developed in partnership between the municipal Secretaries of Housing and the Environment and has been nationally and internationally recognized as a project that exemplifies best practices in redeveloping informal settlements.
Like other informal settlements, the self-built structures of Cantinho do Ceu (A Corner of Heaven) occupied kilometers of the delicate riparian zone of the reservoir, the primary source of drinking water for the entire city. The design strategy, then, was to remove only the houses within a 20 meter zone, utilize the cleared area as a leisure and park space for residents of the informal settlement, and implement water and wastewater removal infrastructures within the existing community. The result is a hybrid urban nature, whereby the park is actively used by the community and simultaneously ensures improved quality of the city’s drinking water.
Cantinho do Ceu is not only distinguished for its formal interventions but perhaps more significantly because of Boldarini’s direct involvement in the community. While there are many architect-designed redevelopment projects being undertaken in São Paulo, Boldarini’s intentionally spent many months in the Cantinho do Ceu community and “just observed how people use space and listened to what they want. It was fairly straightforward, but a necessary process in order to design a relevant project.”
Find images of this project by searching the VRC’s online image collection using the search terms “Cantinho” in the Subject field and “São Paulo” in the City field.
Photograph by Kristine Stiphany, courtesy of the UTSOA Visual Resources Collection. Quotation from an interview with Marcos Boldarini in Cantinho do Ceu; July 10, 2011, São Paulo, Brazil.
The MoMA in New York created this interactive graphic to highlight the social connections among pioneering abstract artists from 1910-1925. The sudden and dramatic emergence of abstract art in this period is the subject of Inventing Abstraction, an exhibition of these early works that jettisoned conventional representation.
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Muse on these intriguing images composed using architectural images, which have been mirrored, folded and repeated. Artist Mattia Mognetti manipulates photographs of architecture to create jewel-like visual arrangements with strong deep shadows and extreme angles.
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