000off_WHAT_ARCHITECTURE REMIX COMPETITION
“The remix contest brought out a lot of amazing music architecture. Everyone that was a part of it was making cutting edge music architecture.” The relationship between music and architecture has progressed a lot since the 15th Century when Leon Battista Alberti, the Italian author, artist, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher, cryptographer and architect proclaimed:
“We shall therefore borrow all our Rules for the Finishing our Proportions, from the Musicians, who are the greatest Masters of this Sort of Numbers, and from those Things wherein Nature shows herself most excellent and compleat.” Leon Battista Alberti (1407-1472)
Today music vs architecture is less about spatial proportion (representation), more about spatial intervention (experience). Blablablarchitecture has always privileged ‘talking buildings’ and therefore rap ‘music’ (recalling Chuck D has always said rap is about the word not the sound) with its speech dexterity, and hiphop, with its sonic sampling / appropriation / play-giarism, has often been on high rotation / Recently Played on the office i-Tunes beatbox.
The WHAT_architecture remix competition launched during Clerkenwell Design Week 2012 is thus a celebration of the world of referencing. Judging can be really hard but thanks to you, and public input via our website, we can choose the winners who, in the best electronic music traditions, add something particular to the original essence. The competition is sponsored by Adobe Photoshop. Or really ‘Phonoshop’TM where the process of making sound also influences image.
GALLERY OF ARCHITECTURAL RAPS:
1. NL_Architects vs Claus en Kaan:
2. FILIP DUJARDIN FICTIONS:
2. FILIP DUJARDIN FICTIONS:
179prs_WHAT_architecture school
WHAT_architecture to establish an architecture school in Cambodia? Thanks to the facilitation of the ‘Initial Public Offering Incubator’ which grooms Cambodian companies for stock exchange listing, Panha Chiet University could soon integrate into the WHAT_architecture branded ‘ArchiPelago’: where students are clustered around architecture schools to form a network informed by practitioner-led design studios…
086tho_GOAL VS WINDOW? DANCE VS FOOTBALL?
As we gear up for phase 2 at Thornhill Primary School, we started thinking about the frisson between indoor (dance) vs outdoor play (football). How could the proximity of adjacent activities be emphasised? With the goal as a window? A goggle of ‘glass goal windows’ threw up some interesting possibilities…
And if not through materiality, then what about cross-programming? The dance in football vs the football in dance? http://plashingvole.blogspot.com/2010/06/peace-reigns-once-more.html
La Cachucha, by Friedrich Albert Zorn vs Roger Milla in Italia ’90…
And if not through materiality, then what about cross-programming? The dance in football vs the football in dance? http://plashingvole.blogspot.com/2010/06/peace-reigns-once-more.html
La Cachucha, by Friedrich Albert Zorn vs Roger Milla in Italia ’90… 
000off_RE:SENT
Lisa Jardine laments the loss of the handwritten letter in today’s world of over-communication… pov_20120203-2100a
000off_Forthcoming WHAT_architecture publication
Forthcoming WHAT_architecture ‘power book’ with the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology…
000off_HORSE + CARCHITECTURE = HORSEPOWERISM!
“Horses for courses” is an English expression which means ‘the things that do well, do well on their own grounds (turf)’. What could one form of recreational landscape learn from another? Horse + car + architecture = Horsepowerism!
000off_skp architecture
During the day we architects do drawings, builds model, drape wall and make space, listening to other worlds our iPods / iTune soundsystems. Reconcile the backbeat of the backdrop as we wonder if SKP could reconcile architecture with music? Kick back…
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