Ninja June 25th, 2008
The London Festival of Architecture 2008 is on now and will run to July 20. It has over 600 exhibitions, lectures, public space installations, guided walks, bicycle rides, boat tours, parties, design workshops and debates.
For full listings, click here.
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Related postsPenguin January 23rd, 2008
One of the key points that Frank Gehry makes is to approach every project with insecurity. Remember that first film that you shot? Remember the first story you wrote? Remember the first time you ever asked that guy or girl you liked out? There was that sense of fear and inadequacy. That sense of, I don’t know what the heck I’m doing. And sometimes, it didn’t work. But through it, you learned. So the next film, the next story, the next guy or girl, you had a little bit more experience so you weren’t as afraid.
But I think there’s something to be said about having a that same sort of insecurity or fear going into every project. Not because of your skills or your experience, but because of the project itself. As an artist, I want to push myself. Tell new stories that I’ve never told before. Broach new genres that I’ve never tried. Do something that I’ve never done before. In a sense, every new project will be like the first project. Different, challenging, but most important of all, new.
Inevitably, you’ll fail. Gehry recounts how he tried putting out a tea pot and the TED host commented, “Did it leak?” and to know that even one of the greatest legends or our time has failed should give us relieve and permission to fail as well. This doesn’t mean to slack off and just throw something together. Rather, it should give you permission to try that crazy project.
You look at some of the great works of our time, they were all because failure wasn’t an option. Failure would’ve meant desolation. Failure would’ve meant people losing their jobs. Final Fantasy, which spawned a movie and 13 sequels and other spin-offs. Evangelion, which revolutionized anime and the mecha genre. Reservoir Dogs, which launched one of the greatest and influential filmmakers of our time. But these works were great because the creator and their willingness to go for broke. Instead of playing it safe, they decided that if they could only do 1 more game, 1 more anime, 1 movie, this is what they would do.
And when you’re finished, you’ll see things that you would’ve changed. A scene here, a line there. But as with Love Angle, even with all the things I would’ve changed, I still watch it and enjoy it. Even Gehry’s buildings, although beautiful and artistic, leaked. But you look past all that because of the whole.
So, make every project a new project. And with every project, go for broke.
-Penguin
Related postsNinja January 22nd, 2008
Pictured above: Frank Gehry + his Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao.
Frank Gehry has been invited to to design Serpentine Gallery’s Next Pavilion.
Every year since 2000, the Serpentine, a former tearoom located in London’s Hyde Park, asks an architect or artist to put up a provisional structure that serves as a venue for evening talks and events, and, by day, as a cafe.
Via Bloomberg
Related postsNinja December 4th, 2007
What:
75 Years of Architecture at MoMA
When:
November 16, 2007–March 10, 2008
Where:
Museum of Modern Art
11 W 53rd St
New York, NY map
Marcel Kammerer
Royal Hunting Tent
Frank Lloyd Wright
St. Mark’s-in-the-Bouwerie Towers
Related postsMoMA’s Department of Architecture, founded in 1932, was the world’s first curatorial department of its kind. This exhibition of drawings and models from the collection celebrates the department’s seventy-fifth birthday and demonstrates the development of its collecting practice, with several recent acquisitions on view. The installation examines themes in the history of modern architecture—including organicism and expressionism; urbanism; visionary architecture; and the art of drawing—that were overlooked in MoMA’s inaugural architecture exhibition, Modern Architecture: An International Exhibition, which defined the International Style for several generations.
Ninja September 11th, 2007
1:50 scale model
250,000 LEGO bricks + five weeks = Danish architects BIG’s (Bjarke Ingels Group) NY Storefront for Architecture and Design exhibition
via dezeen
Link:
+ Time-lapse viddy showing the construction of the model
Limited edition lithograph prints. Signed + numbered.
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