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De Stijl, Dutch for “The Style”, also known as neoplasticism, was a Dutch artistic movement founded in 1917. In a narrower sense, the term De Stijl is used to refer to a body of work from 1917 to 1931 founded in the Netherlands. De Stijl is also the name of a journal that was published by the Dutch painter, designer, writer, and critic Theo van Doesburg (1883–1931), propagating the group’s theories.
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The Endsea Pavilion by Rodrigo Rubio at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia was created using a year of data collected from the movement of the sun across the sky above its location.
(Source: fastcodesign.com)
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Every surface inside the top floor of the Russian Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale is covered in QR codes, which visitors decode using tablet computers to explore ideas for a new Russian city dedicated to science.
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“Something primitive animates the darkness of the Tanks. Through the interplay of luminous form and motion, ambiguity in visual perception is explored and manipulated in an unfolding interactive experience.”
Fearful Symmetry by Ruari Glynn was part of Undercurrent: Young People’s Festival at Tate
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Stone Spray is a on-site robotic 3D printer that creates architecture out of soil.
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“There be those who say that things and places have souls, and there be those who say they have not; I dare not say, myself, but I will tell of The Street.”
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Next month flying robots will lift, transport and assemble 1500 polystyrene foam bricks to build a three metre wide, six metre-high tower at the FRAC Centre in Orléans, France.
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Cinemod Studio have created a reactive football stadium in Peru that is “able to communicate the ebb and flow of excitement and disappointment to the surrounding city, thus becoming a watched spectacle in itself”.
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“With his team at SENSEable City Lab, MIT’s Carlo Ratti makes cool things by sensing the data we create. He pulls from passive data sets — like the calls we make, the garbage we throw away — to create surprising visualizations of city life. And he and his team create dazzling interactive environments from moving water and flying light, powered by simple gestures caught through sensors.”
(Source: ted.com)
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Firefly is a set of comprehensive software tools dedicated to bridging the gap between Grasshopper (a free plug-in for Rhino), the Arduino micro-controller, the internet and beyond.
It allows near real-time data flow between the digital and physical worlds, and will read/write data to/from internet feeds, remote sensors and more. It also includes a Pachube reader.
