Life on Mars

 

 "As much as level designers try to emulate the design of the real-world, we spend just as much time trying to work around the limitations those rules impose.  We strive to create a world the player can understand and relate to, but then we add elements - not for their function - but because their presence is indicative and convincing of a deeper, richer world than the one we have actually constructed." p179

"We pick and choose from the world we know to create one we don't, curating aspects of our environment, shuffling them around, and reseating them to give a sense of the familiar in pursuit of something fun." p181

from The Making of Dust: Architecture and the Art of Level Design by David Johnston

de·moc·ra·cy

a form of governance where people through their selective inclination place various emphases at various sites of influence, culminating in the constitutional act of voting for leaders in effective roles in government

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(the commendable drawing with 

the re-interpretational crop)

 

 

Accra, Ghana

(Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum and Memorial Park)

work spaces

KieranTimberlake 

Safdie Architects

skyscraper

MahaNakhon, Bangkok.

hive

Aluminum Hive Echoes the Hum of Bees - Light Metal Age Magazine

artist Wolfgang Buttress in partnership with designer and engineer Tristan Simmonds

igloo

Kakslauttanen Glass Igloo Hotel

symbol

Eye of Horus eco-house, Luis De Garrido Architects

library

Tianjin Binhai Library designed by MVRDV

light and shadow

Ho Fan 何藩, Photographer  link

viewing pavilion

Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter Selected to Design Viewing Pavilion at Greenland’s Icefjord archdaily
Dorte Mandrup link

art installation

Christo and Jeanne-Claude google

permanence?

lighthouse, Iceland.
link

ephemeral

Nicolas Campodónico  ArchDaily

skies and earth

James Turrell.  Roden Crater. google link

art

Arthur Woods,
blog post at Astronomers Without Border link (scroll down to read 4 part blog entries
personal website link

architecture, art

My ultimate dream is to build in space. I am an abstract thinker. In order to build in space, I believe that one has to build first for the many peoples and societies on this earth. What are our common values? What can breach the vastness of space that we only in this century begin to discover? Art in orbit has become a reality. Architecture must follow if we believe in and find the necessity to explore. A sacred space where we can measure what is human to what is the solar system, to galaxy, and ultimately the universe. For this I have an idea in mind. But at once I feel that service to the inhabitants of the earth is a foundation for reaching our loftier goals. To build temples, parks, churches, institutional buildings of culture, schools, court houses, hospitals, gas stations, entertainment and recreation venues, housing, parkades, office buildings, monuments, libraries, and so on: these are architecture for the everyday person. Though their needs may differ, the purpose is the same - shelter, enclosure, openness, programmatic requirements, communication, and at the utmost, inspiration. This inspiration can cross boundaries; art and architecture are bridges, abstract bridges that can reach beyond space and time.

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