Archive for October, 2008

IRON ARCHITECT WRAP-UP

Saturday, October 18th, 2008

As Anthony at Offshore and Marcus at Super Colossal have reported, Iron Architect was a ton of fun.

Each team was assigned a specific type of mass transit to investigate with the goal of providing innovative solutions in a few hours.  Our team was assigned the task of researching an underground metro system.  We hit the ground running and quickly formed a thesis involving a decentralized, sentient system of individual pods that travel in a viscous subterranean strata.

This project continues and we look forward to sharing our new research with you, asap…

Below: the future of SO-AD

Images by Sarah Benton + Marcus Trimble

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BURNS LECTURE: UWA 9 OCTOBER

Saturday, October 4th, 2008

Hello West Coast!

Do they call it the “West Coast”? We’ll assume that they do.

Regardless, David Burns will be traveling cross country on Thursday (9 October 2008) to deliver a talk and participate in juries at the University of Western Australia in Perth. 

Specs:
Thursday, 9 October 2008, 6pm
Hew Roberts Lecture Theatre (I think)
University of Western Australia, Perth

If you’re in the area, please stop by and say hello and heckle. 

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IRON ARCHITECT

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

SO-AD was invited to team up with our homies at Offshore Studio to compete in this year’s Iron Architect competition, a component of the Sydney Architecture Festival.

SO-AD has drafted one Adam Jasper (art historian, Vice and Frieze writer and general Sydney bon vivant) to join the team. Huzzah!

We have big plans, including but not limited to the following:

  1. Various references to planet-destroying space stations.
  2. Coordinated outfits.
  3. Questioning simple concepts, like gravity.
Specs:
Sydney Customs House
1pm – 4pm
Should be a hoot. Drop by and watch us makes fools of ourselves…

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