Voyages & Visions: Nineteenth-Century European Images of the Middle East from the Victoria and Albert Museum

Book by Atil, Esin, Newton, Charles, Searight, Sarah

Newton, Charles

Searight, Sarah

Atıl, Esin

Victoria And Albert Museum

Arts & Photography

Sites

<div>Dennis Dollens is a research designer and writer living in Santa Fe, NM. He has taught in the Genetic Architecture Program at the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya in Barcelona. His most recent book is "DBA: Digital-Botanic Architecture." Ronald Christ won the Kayden National Translation Award for Diamela Eltit's "E. Luminata" and the ForeWord Book of the Year Award for Altamirano's "El Zarco, The Blue-eyed Bandit." Currently translating #65533;lvaro Pombo's "Contra Natura" under a grant from the Spanish Ministry of Cutlure, Christ's most recent critical work is "Bonevardi: Constructing Magic."</div>

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Architecture

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Literature & Fiction

Essays & Correspondence

Josep Maria Jujol (1879-1949) created some of Spain's greatest modern buildings in a style known as modernisme (the Barcelona equivalent of art nouveau). In one decade, between 1913 and 1923, the young architect built five works that entitle him to be classified as a pioneer of Modernism; yet Jujol, a collaborator with Antoni Gaudi on some of that master's most admired works, has been largely unrecognized and his independent architecture unknown.Josep Maria Jujol: Five Major Buildings places the architect's work in the highly charged religious and political context of Barcelona - from the late 19th century through the Spanish Civil War and on to the time of Jujol's death in 1949. This book considers Jujol's career as parallel to, but not part of, the nascent avant-garde emerging from Barcelona's cafe Els Quatre Gats and the Galleries Dalmau, with which Picasso, Duchamp, Dali, Sert, and Miro were at one time associated.Josep Maria Jujol: Five Major Buildings traces the architect's development in this and Gaudi's conservative religious environment, as well as in a broader European frame. It also considers Jujol's use of symbolic, abstract calligraphy, collage, and painting as advanced semiotic elements in an extraordinary amalgamation of craft, material, technique and space fused into visionary architecture.

Josep Maria Jujol: Five Major Buildings, 1913-1923

Dollens, Dennis L.

LAX: The Los Angeles Experiment

McConnell, Mick

A project using the complex-curving branches of tumbleweeds for the building of forms and surfaces in physical and 3D virtual models, digital graphics, and web constructions.

Exodesic: Structures, Tumbleweeds, Electronics: The TumbleTruss Project

Dennis L. Dollens

Graphic Design

Genetic Architectures/Arquitecturas Geneticas (Spanish Edition)

“Dollens has written beautifully about one of the most passionate, committed, and innovative advocates for traditional earthen construction in our time.”—Ed Crocker. Crocker Ltd., Architectural Conservation“Swan’s life and work perfectly capture the spirit and romance of the American West. Only at the risk of its own irrelevance will the architecture profession ignore the lessons in Dollens’ book on Swan’s practical yet elegant and modern adobe solutions to housing.”—William Menking, editor of The Architect’s NewspaperLike an organism sitting and breathing on its site in the Chihuahuan desert, the Swan House is a building of organic beauty and hybrid cultural intelligence. Simone Swan has created an architectural and environmental project that re-examines and promotes traditional adobe building while introducing compatible forms, such as the Nubian vault and dome.Swan studied with the great Egyptian architect Hassan Fathy in his Cairo studio and after his death in 1989 adopted his mission of helping house the world’s poor.Simone Swan: Adobe Building is the first book to discuss and illustrate Swan’s architecture while also chronicling one of her annual workshops in Dollens’ first-hand account. Dollens suggests that by biologically analyzing historic adobe we may be able to hybridize its constituents as replacements for current toxic materials, creating new biomimetic, adobe-related building materials suitable for green architecture.Dennis Dollens is the author of D2A: Digital to Analog; DBA: Digital-Botanic Architecture; Exodesic: Structures, Tumbleweeds, Electronics; and El Proyecto TumbleTruss / The TumbleTruss Project.

Simone Swan: Adobe Building

Science & Math

Dollens, Dennis

Nature & Ecology

Learning from graphic novels and anime, this manga-inspired comic book tours new ideas about the environment, design, digital and natural growth, and architecture in the work and writing of Dennis Dollens. The pangolin functions as a tour guide and mascot, frequently interjecting comments that make the brief format dense with illustrated ideas and modes of designing, yet comprehensible as an introduction to the experimental ideas. The comic illustrates how biomimetics—the search for form and systems in nature—can be used to integrate natural processes with experimental design and digital production to conceive, visualize, generate, and model architectural and design elements extrapolated from nature, and how that process has evolved in Dollens’ Santa Fe and Barcelona-based design and writing.
Looking to seeds, plants, trees, shells, etc., for new architectural forms via software, animation, digital modeling, and CAD-CAM (computer aided design/computer aided manufacturing) production, the comic book presents ideas for new, sustainable, nontoxic materials while also considering how sustainable environments can be integral with technical innovation and contemporary form. The comic suggests how biological materials are on the horizon and how they might be conceived of as contributing to the environment in a potentially “intelligent” manner.
Since the late 1990s Dollens has experimented with and manipulated software for growing plants and trees, not only in order to grow interlocked, branching structures (trusses), but also to investigate the possibilities of leaf and pod-like volumes revisualized and redesigned as units and clusters for prototypes of floors and walls, rooms and skyscrapers. The resulting digital models and graphic renderings stem from radical software (Xfrog-Rhino-Studio MAX) hybridization. Yet, the resulting sphere or cube clusters retain plantlike aspects of phyllotaxic distribution, phototropic or gravitropic orientation, and/or Fibonacci-like proportions, giving the models a digital-biological heritage.
Specifically, the comic illustrates how “digitally grown” experimental works nurtured in the plant-generating software (Xfrog) can be built as rapid prototype models, further suggesting how nature and computation can produce a collaborative approach to architecture, design, and fabrication.

The Pangolin's Guide to Biomimetics & Digital Architecture: Architecture & Biomimetics Series #1

Computers & Technology

Biology, ecology, and medical technology inspire innovative architectural and digital design based on tumbleweeds.

TumbleTruss Project

Sculpture

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