Lançamento e Apresentação da revista dédalo #5 Centripetação
Divulgação dos vencedores do Concurso Cobertura Galeria de Paris
25 fevereiro, 17h café Galeria de Paris

Mesa Redonda com a participação de:
Gonçalo Furtado
José Albuquerque (representante do café Galeria de Paris)
Nuno Grande
Nuno Valentim

Carlos Foyedo (moderador e representante da revista)

"Let's talk about architecture for a minute. When people use the word architecture, most times they are really referring to, you known, a building as architecture. But the word architecture in its purest sense has a far broader connotation. So what is architecture? Well, let's think of something as simple as a cup. If you were to specify a particular cup design it would enable the production of identically designed cups. Now if you were to think a little bit more deeply about the design of the cup and extract the essence of what makes that cup,  a cup, and really specify those principles and then share it with other people, you would end up with an endless variety of different cup designs. All of those cup designs though would be based on the same principles that comprise the cup's architecture. That set of principles, THAT is architecture."

A loja da Monseo situa-se numa zona privilegiada da Cidade do Porto, junto ao Rio e à ponte da Arrábida com o propósito de ser um espaço de referência para os amantes da joalharia. Acima de tudo, esta joalharia é a imagem da marca da Monseo.
Já está adicionada ao Meu Porto - Mapa Google. O projecto de interiores esteve a cargo de Diana Vieira da Silva e as fotografias seguintes são da autoria de Raquel Vieira da Silva.

A visitar o site e blog.

The Monseo store is situated in a privileged area of the city Oporto, by the river and the Arábida bridge, it's objective of being a reference point for jewelry lovers. Above all, this jewelry is the trade mark of Monseo.
It's already added in My Porto - Google Map. The interior project is by Diana Vieira da Silva and the following photographs were taken by Raquel Vieira da Silva.
Visit the site and blog.

Entre ciel et terre, 2005 by Felice Varini, photo (c) André Morin

Felice Varini (nascido em Locarno, Suiça) é um artista com base em Paris. As suas telas "são o espaço arquitectural e tudo que constitui tal espaço". Os trabalhos de Felice Varini têm apenas um ponto de vista a partir do qual o observador pode ver as suas "pinturas", e a partir desse ponto de vista, as suas obras de arte mergem-se com a arquitectura e envolvente. "Se eu estabeleço uma relação particular às caracteristicas arquitecturais", diz Felice Varini "isso influencia a forma da instalação, o meu trabalho preserva ainda assim a sua independencia, sejam quais forem os espaços arquitecturais que encontro."

Felice Varini (born in Locarno, Switzerland) is a Paris based artist. His canvas "is architectural space and everything that constitutes such space". Felice Varini’s works have only one view point from which people can see his 'paintings', and from that vantage point, his artwork merges with architecture and the surrounding. "If I establish a particular relation to architectural features", Felice Varini says "that influence the installation shape, my work still preserves its independence whatever architectural spaces I encounter."

O site do senhor é visita obrigatória.

visto originalmente em / seen first in anArchitecture

O Eureka Car Park em Melbourne exibe um sistema sinalético criado por Axel Peemoeller enquanto trabalhava para o Emery Studio. As formas das letras estão distorcidas pelas superficies horizontais e verticais, de maneira a que quando vistas de um certo ponto possam ser lidas perfeitamente.

The Eureka Car Park, in Melbourne, features a signage system created by Axel Peemoeller while working at Emery Studio. The letter forms are distorted acros the vertical and horizontal services, so that when viewed from the correct position, they can be read perfectly.

Tais imagens Anamorficas têm sido usadas na arte desde muito tempo (p.e. a pintura Os Embaixadores de Holbein - olhem para o ecrã pelo lado direito quase de perfil), e, mais recentemente, nos pisos desportivos para publicidade televisiva. Mas esta é a primeira vez que as vi serem usadas como sinalética de orientação.

Such Anamorphic images have been used in art for many years (eg Holbein's painting The Ambassadors), and have also in more recent years been common on televised sports pitches, such as cricket and rugby, but this is the first time I have seen them used for wayfinding. Wouldn't it be amazing if the apparent jumble of signs and symbolds across a city, when viewed from a certain vantage point, resolved into a beautiful coherent image?

visto originalmente em / first seen in Kosmograd

'When I was a little boy, I fell ill," says Alvaro Siza, lighting up his sixth Camel cigarette. "My parents took me to a house high on a hill so I could breathe good air. I was allowed out on to a veranda. Here, I could look at a perfect view of a beautiful valley spread out below me. By the third week, I hated that view. I never wanted to see it again."
Artigo integral no Guardian: Hail Siza.

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