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Quinjet · Joined: 14 Apr 2006 Posts: 1371 Location: UK

In my hunt for inspiration I came across this article in a wiki.
I'm not sure if we have been here before, appols if we have.

The most recent movement-Deconstructivism-employs non-Euclidean geometry to achieve its complex objectives resulting in a chaotic order. Non-parallel walls, superimposed grids and complex 2-D surfaces are some external manifestations of this approach which is exemplified by the works of Peter Eisenman, Zaha Hadid, and Frank Gehry. Topology has been a fascinating influence.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Eisenman

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaha_Hadid

Check out the pics at the bottom of this page.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Gehry

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allicorn · Joined: 14 Apr 2006 Posts: 1115 Location: SW, UK

Oh my god!

"Its spatial grammar of colliding planes also tends to make users disoriented to the point of nausea, and Eisenman has been known to chuckle in lectures about making people vomit."

Surely this can only be the behavior of a culstist of some kind? Shocked

Alli
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Quinjet · Joined: 14 Apr 2006 Posts: 1371 Location: UK

I wonder if he would be interested in helping me with my map? Smile

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allicorn · Joined: 14 Apr 2006 Posts: 1115 Location: SW, UK

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Reverend Speed · Joined: 14 Apr 2006 Posts: 1123

Wurgh.

That's... very strange.

...oohh, itching to make a Rlyeh map now. =)

I'm fairly familiar with Gehry and Hadid, but somehow I've managed to miss paying too much attention to Eisenman.

My god... MY EYES ARE BLEEDING!

--Rukk-
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Junklight · Joined: 19 May 2006 Posts: 5

Libeskind's Jewish Museum in Berlin is actually quite good
( http://www.kunstgeografie.nl/void.2.htm ) , before he started down the path to celebrity, and believing his own hype
( http://shoeblogs.com/images/libeskind.jpg )
pompous little prick

But I think you're really looking for the work of Lebbeus Woods:
http://www.ludvigsen.hiof.no/webdoc/inet93/lwchairmedian.html
http://www.ap.buffalo.edu/sap/news/lectureimages/spring2004/lebbeusWoods01-undergd%20berlin.jpg
http://www.uturn.org/Arttech/lebbeus1.jpg

He was credited with set designs for Alien 3 and 12 Monkeys, but really was just another paper architect. But with alot more going on behind the eyes than Zaha Hadid, at least.

Those of you familiar with 12 Monkeys, "Roadside Picnic" or Tartovsky's "Stalker" may feel that the picture of the chair in the room is familiar.

Woods explored parasitic structures that invaded more orthogonal buildings like bomb-blasts, and spaces that left uneasy traces of previous activities.

All my own words, nice!

Reverend Speed · Joined: 14 Apr 2006 Posts: 1123

Doing well dude! See PM... =)

All the best,

--RoB
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