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Competition: we’ve teamed up with Page One Publishing to give away five copies of Jyanzi Kong’s new architecture book, Geometry of the Unconscious.

Geometry of the Unconscious: an Uncertain Truth in Architecture examines our perceptions of architecture within varying contexts.

The 172-page paperback compiles theoretical texts accompanied by over 150 illustrations and photos of projects.

Jyanzi Kong has held teaching positions at universities across the US, Singapore and China.

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Competition closes 23 August 2011. Five winners will be selected at random and notified by email. Winners’ names will be published in a future edition of our Dezeenmail newsletter and at the bottom of this page. Dezeen competitions are international and entries are accepted from readers in any country.

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Here’s some more information from the publisher:

About Geometry of the Unconscious

The experience of seeing space in its relationship with matter is inherent in the gap between the visible and invisible in architecture. This book examines architecture where the complexities of chance, atmosphere, situation and circumstance are amalgamated into geometry of the unconscious. From this, new architecture can be realised not only based upon accepted norms of modernity but also upon cultural context and origin. Such geometry is an endpoint that involves a continuity of perception, conception and action.

About Jyanzi Kong

Jyanzi Kong began teaching at the Department of Architecture, Cornell University. Subsequently, he taught at the College of Architecture, University of Houston and Montana State University.

Since 1985, he taught at the School of Architecture, National University of Singapore and the Raffles Institute of Design, DongHua University in Shanghai. He has served as Guest Critic at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University and several American schools of architecture, including SCI-ARC. He has presented papers in various international conferences including the Union of International Architects in Barcelona, 1996.

His professional practice covered both sides of the Atlantic. He was Architect-in-Design with the office of O M Angers in Cologne, Germany, while on the American Coast he worked with several architectural firms. Jyanzi conducts architectural explorations in design studios and lectures on contemporary topics related to architecture and its urban determinants.

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Japanese designers Nendo have combined a USB stick with a giant paperclip.  

The Data Clip for Japanese electronics brand Elecom can be attached to paper documents or clipped together for easy storage.

See all our stories about Nendo here and more stationery here.

Photographs are by Hiroshi Iwasaki.

Here are some more details from the designers:

Data Clip for Elecom

A USB stick in the shape of a paperclip. It can clip to a stack of documents, business cards or memos for handing data to a colleague or friend, or connect to other Data Clips for storage. A design that aims for a new relationship between daily life and digital data.

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Otokurage by Nendo	Ceramic Speaker by Nendo	Thin Black Lines by Nendo

This week’s Workspace of the Week is YinYang’s new home office:

The windows in this Australian office are downright blissful. To be honest, the office could be outfitted with a card table and a broken chair and I’d have still likely featured it. However, it is much more than pretty windows, it is a wonderfully streamlined desk and office space that would make work very simple to complete. The monitor is on a telescoping arm that makes adjusting it and pushing it back off the desk space possible. All of the equipment needed on a daily basis is within immediate reach and nothing else appears to be cluttering up the work surface. When summer heads to the southern hemisphere, I would love to see an image of those windows open — I imagine it has to be a glorious space to work then, too.

Want to have your own workspace featured in Workspace of the Week? Submit a picture to the Unclutterer flickr pool. Check it out because we have a nice little community brewing there. Also, don’t forget that workspaces aren’t just desks. If you’re a cook, it’s a kitchen; if you’re a carpenter, it’s your workbench.

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Billowing fabric mushrooms by New York designers Situ Studio have cropped up in the great hall of the Brooklyn Museum.

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Pleated fabric surrounds the 16 columns that support the ceiling of the first-floor hall, located between galleries, a cafe and a bookshop.

Acrylic-stone benches and ledges encircle the base of each mushroom.

The exhibition will remain in place until 15 January 2012.

Other fabric interiors from the Dezeen archive include a hotel with a rippling ceiling and a showroom where translucent curtains hang from above.

Photography is by Keith Sirchio.

Here’s some more information from the materials supplier:

Brooklyn Museum utilizes HI-MACS® Solid Surface in the ten month long “reOrder”exhibit

The Brooklyn Museum is a lasting landmark in the New York area that brings more than 450,000 visitors annually to see its acclaimed artistic temporary exhibitions and permanent collections. The Great Hall of the museum, located on the first floor, is a 10,000 square foot room filled with 16 giant columns. The hall which is positioned between the café, museum book store and other creative exhibits, acts as a common area for museum visitors and personnel. It is also currently hosting an exhibit called, “reOrder,” until January 15 of 2012.

“reOrder” is a site-specific installation created by Situ Studio, an architectural design studio founded in 2005 in Brooklyn, New York. The installation alters the current classical architecture to help visitors understand the impressive scale of the main entrance, as well as explore the architectural ornamentation that allows the Grand Hall to not only be artfully decorated, but also functional.

In order to create the entire installment, LG Hausys donated its solid surfacing material for the project. Slabs of acrylic HI-MACS® Solid Surfaces were used to construct the Great Hall’s furniture. Wrapped benches and tables were positioned at the bottom of the columns, which currently are covered in elaborate fabric designs (pictured above).

“LG Hausys’ solid surfacing was used to construct furniture around the base of the 16 large classical columns in the Great Hall,” said Wes Rozen, one of Situ Studio’s five founding partners.  “A specialized computer was used to precisely cut pieces of HI-MACS®, which were then thermoformed into a range of curved shapes and brought together in wedges to encircle the base of the columns.  The finished furniture elements appear as extensions to the existing Doric architectural order, or as entirely new type of architectural ornamentation which is also functional.”

Because HI-MACS® Solid Surfaces can be precisely thermoformed, or designed in virtually any size or three-dimensional shape, Situ Studio approached LG Hausys in order to use their materials. LG Hausys donated the material, and a sub-contractor finalized the thermoforming and seating installation. The designers from Situ Studio chose the White Quartz color variation from LG Hausys’ HI-MACS® Solid Surfaces Classic collection.

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Rainforest by Patrick Nadeau for Boffi	The Drop Series by Olivia Decaris	NET by Numen/For Use