Showing posts with label 7.3 Nicol Berinstein. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 7.3 Nicol Berinstein. Show all posts

Saturday, December 6, 2008

Richard Serra at Downsview Station

STATEMENT

Richard Serra's sculptures are not about the form of the piece, but about the spacial relations that the piece creates. With this knowledge I have grouped the like volumes (all the cylinders together, all the cubes together, and all the planes together) to add the element of how each volume interacts with the piece separately, while creating viewing points and rest areas at the same time.

Many people argue; why put a gallery around a Richard Serra piece, while at the same time argue his indoor pieces are very successful. This is because, generally, his outdoor works create their own gallery, and the four surrounding walls of a gallery (or space) give an indoor piece context and a spacial perimeter.

It is for the above mentioned reasons the location and the sculpture (Richard Serra's, Switch 1999) were chosen. They share a symbiotic relationship where the the surrounding roadways (which create a curvilinear triangular island that mimics the shape of Switch) act as walls and set a perimeter for which the piece to be viewed, where as the volumes are an extension of the experience of spacial exploration.




Friday, November 14, 2008

Teams and Tasks

furniture setup: Katie, Monica
cleanup: Micheal
(and anyone who does not have class at 11:30 am)
snacks:
Sahar, Anahita, Alanna
mounting section: Nancy, Karen, Amin, Ho-Been
map collection: Anna, Mehdi, Eve, Claudia, Zahra
map curator: Nathan
documentation: Amanda, Tiffany

Thursday, October 2, 2008

The Agency of Mapping

This passage reminds me of how when photography first came out it was considered to be the absolute truth, an exact representation of what was on the other side of the lens, and how the camera was a completely objective tool to use. However, nobody took into to account the artistic merit of a photo such as the cropping, the colour etc.
James Corner is saying that people consider a map to be an objective truth and never take into account the decisions the mapper made when creating a map. So when one simply traces a map he/she takes on the biases of creator leaving no room for further interpretation or creativity. Through this Corner is saying there are two different kinds of maps, a traced map and a creative map which aids even further in the planning and design process.

Wednesday, September 17, 2008




Nicol Berinstein
To be honest I have no idea where I'll be in ten years. If I'm lucky, by then, I'll have figured out what I love to do and be successful in it. What interests me now are the principles of sustainability and universal design. I hope to one day be able to work in developing nations creating relief or permanent housing using readily available and indigenous materials.

Buckminster Fuller.....genius


I love yurts......genius


amazing eco house by Joe Chindarsi......genius