This is the first of the work Noah Olmsted and I are putting together for the XV Fall 2007 Collection.
XVOP.com
I’ve just launched a new, ultra simple website for XV, the art production agency I run with Noah Olmsted of Imaginary Forces.
Hyperbolic Tesselations
I stumbled onto these hyperbolic planar tesselations as I was researching different tesselation strategies for a project I’m developing. I asked my friend Alex Mollere, a Phd. candidate in applied mathematics at UT Austin, to explain:
… that’s the poincare disc model for the hyperbolic plane, a model for the space satisfying the postulates of the non-euclidean hyperbolic geometry in which infinitely many different lines may pass through a point P not on a line l without intersecting l, i.e., there is more than one line parallel to another given line. lines (i.e. the analog of “straight lines” in Euclidean plane) are the arcs of circles intersecting the poincare disc such that the angle between the boundary of the disc and the segment of the circle intersecting it is 90 degrees. The tesselations (just like in the Euclidean plane) are formed by segments of these lines. the dual tesselation is formed by the line segments intersecting the line segments of the original tesselation at 90 degrees, as you truncate the corners of the polygons forming the original regular tesselation, it gradually becomes its dual.
Spash Beta 2
Here's another (lighter) splash idea, currently running on the Bureau V welcome page
Autopilot
Here are two views of Autopilot, the play we set designed, at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, CA.
Vitrine
Here's a close up of a vitrine we designed as part of the set for Autopilot, the play conceived by playwright Jane Pickett and director Lars Jan. Autopilot premiered last week at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles and is now en route to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Torqued Tower Surface Contours
The surface contours tell the story in this aerial view. .
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Asymptote Architecture: Hani Rashid and Lise Anne Couture
Drag Race New Jersey
Splash Beta
This is a dynamic flash animation I’m working on for the Bureau V welcome page. Still very much in progress. Abandoned, too heavy.
I'm Teaching at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design
I’ve just been appointed as a Lecturer in the Graduate Program at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design. I’ll be teaching first year graduate studios along side Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss, Jenny Sabin, Julie Beckman, and Rhett Russo.
Strata Tower
An image of the Strata Tower by Asymptote Architecture was published in the New York Times this weekend. I spent a sleepless year of my life leading the design of this project and am very happy to see it under construction.
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Asymptote Architecture: Hani Rashid and Lise Anne Couture
PINC.US V3 Retired
I’m retiring the previous layout for my site today, and trying to wrap up a new design. Its mostly finished. I was working towards a cleaner look / layout, faster downloading, making it easier to share and bookmark entries, optimizing for handheld devices (because i bought one), and fixing the video player. I’m planning on adding a section devoted to studios I’ve taught / plan to teach as well as relevant resources / downloads. And possibly a section devoted to my new firm Bureau V. In time…
Dynamic Font
Trying to get out some overdue work, I somehow stumbled into spending my day designing a dynamic font. It started out as something sort of LED inspired, then as I was playing around with making the coloration random I realized I could make each character fully interactive. Six hours later this is what I ended up with. Like everything else I guess its not quite done yet, but this is where I am for now…waves and such.
Bureau V
I'm coming out of retirement to start an architecture and design firm, Bureau V, with my longtime collaborators Peter Zuspan of Diller + Scofidio and Stella Lee of Asymptote Architecture.
Milan Design Week 2007
DesignBoom covers the minimal surface chandelier we designed for Zumtobel as it makes its debut at the Milan Furniture Fair.
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Asymptote Architecture: Hani Rashid and Lise Anne Couture
Retirement Party
After two amazing / sleepless years working at Asymptote, I'm taking a break to figure out what's next. My retirement party is Friday night at the Spotted Pig. Be there..
Mark Morris
As seen in our HotHouse(s) midterm review, Mark Morris's kinetic architecture follows the logic of a packing algorithm.
LQ Chandelier in Monitor Magazine
Our LQ Chandelier for Zumtobel, as collaged here by Hani, is featured alongside Zaha’s Vortex chandelier in this months edition of Monitor. This image shows a more complete idea of the as yet finished assembly, and more of the set of effects we are after.
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Asymptote Architecture: Hani Rashid and Lise Anne Couture
Ifeanyi Oganwu
This detail elevation shows Ifeanyi Oganwu’s eroto-organic living pods, as seen in our HotHouse(s) final review last week.
Hot House(s) Final Review
The final review for the studio I’m teaching with Hani Rashid and Theo Lalis will be this Wednesday at Columbia's GSAPP. [ 1pm room 114 Avery ]
Jury:
Barry Bergdoll
Mark Cousins
Lise Anne Couture
Tom Kovac
Thomas Leeser
Henry Smith Miller
Dylan Baker Rice
Mark Wigley