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Professor of Visual Effects
SCAD
Hong Kong
The Savannah College of Art and Design is seeking qualified candidates for full-time faculty positions in visual effects to teach in Sham Shui Po, Hong Kong. Qualified candidates should have the terminal degree in visual effects or a related field or equivalently significant professional experience as demonstrated by employment history and motion picture, television or television commercial credit list. Candidates should be able to demonstrate expert proficiency in one or more 3D or 2D digital visual effects production tools, by providing a demo-reel. Preference will be given to candidates with college-level teaching experience, proven leadership skills and ability to work with students of diverse backgrounds.
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Working across various disciplines including art direction, graphic design, photography, typography and motion design, Parisian multidisciplinary platform, Ill-Studio is currently exhibiting at London’s KK Outlet…
The exhibition, entitled 72 Dots Per Inch, takes inspiration from the world wide web, and follows on from the studio’s recent publication, Moodcyclopedia, an encyclopedic book of the studio’s references and how these have influenced its work.
The show is chock-full of weird and wonderful found, doctored and collaged imagery – all found on t’internet and printed as a series of monochrome prints. The studio members have also taken photographs based on internet images but re-imagined off-line and shot in-camera.
Specially for the show, the studio has directed a video entitled Graphics Interchange Formats (still shown above) which takes the shape of a giant animated gif, that references and celebrates the amateurism of YouTube culture.
72 Dots Per Inch runs until March 31 at KK Outlet, 42 Hoxton Square, London, N1 6BP.
More details at kkoutlet.com
Find out more about the rich and varied work of Ill-Studio at ill-studio.com
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“I’ve worked very hard in a very short time to gain Michael and Felice’s trust,” a deadpan Jeff Lewis confides to the camera, less than 24 hours into his five-day, live-in makeover of the Steinbeck family’s Brentwood home. “Unfortunately, that trust gets questioned when water starts leaking out of the ceiling in the hall.” Bring on the busted pipes and twisted family dynamics, because the persnickety house flipper is back with a new show, Interior Therapy with Jeff Lewis, which premieres tonight at 9 p.m. on Bravo. The frantic project juggling of Flipping Out (now filming its sixth season) is here replaced with feverish yet focused efforts to identify and solve the problems of homeowners, whose cramped closets or shabby bathroom may be symptoms of deeper conflicts—whether turning a child’s bedroom into a posh closet is the best solution is up to the viewer to decide.
Each episode follows Lewis and trusty assistant Jenni Pulos as they move into someone else’s house and get down to business: finding flaws, discreetly rolling their eyes, chatting with adorable children, and calling in reserves (sassy-but-lovable housekeeper Zoila Chavez, a contractor and his ever-growing crew) to accomplish considerable feats of design within the allotted five days. “On Flipping Out, you don’t always get to see the finished products,” said Lewis on a recent press call. “With Interior Therapy, it’s a true before-and-after reveal, which I like, because I get to see the project all the way through, and then so do the viewers.” Tonight’s premiere episode involves a domineering wife, a wildly ambitious tiling scheme (marble, herringbone), and a shopping trip to the aptly named “Interior Illusions.” When a conflict-soothing headboard gets wedged in the stairwell, the only option is cringe-inducing: “Open the wall!” barks the contractor. And for all of his smirking asides, Lewis’s softer side does emerge—occasionally—on the new show. “These people had problems. It wasn’t just about the design, and I really became a champion for them. I really cared about them,” said Lewis, pausing for a beat. “Some of them, not all of them!”
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Dezeen Wire: the British Council have revealed the names of architects, curators and researchers who will gather material about exotic places to present at an exhibition entitled Venice Takeaway in the British Pavilion at this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale.
The list includes London architecture studios dRMM and Aberrant Architecture, as well as London Architecture Diary editor-in-chief Elias Redstone and non-profit organisation Forum for Alternative Belfast.
See all our stories about the last Venice Architecture Biennale here, or click here to read about the theme for this year’s show picked by curator David Chipperfield.
The details below from the British Council include the full list of explorers:
Explorers Announced For British Pavilion At Venice Architecture Biennale
Venice Takeaway: Ideas to Change British Architecture
The British Council today announced names of the teams and individuals who will undertake explorations around the world to gather material for the British Pavilion at the 13th Venice Architecture Biennale.
The Venice Takeaway brief was circulated widely during January and by 28 February the British Council had received 118 proposals.
Ten ‘Explorers’ have been selected by the Advisory Panel. During April they will undertake expeditions to a variety of locations around the world. The group is made up of practising architects at various stages of their careers; a curator; writers; journalists; teachers and campaigners.
Explorers’ projects will focus on case studies and examples that are pertinent to the British and international context, including housing, the design of schools, risk consciousness and the role of the architect.
Explorers and their destinations
Background on Venice Takeaway
The exhibition will provide an injection of new ideas to the UK based on the research of the Explorers, who will travel around the world to unearth case studies.
In January the British Council opened a call for participation at four launches around the UK. More than 500 people attended events in London, Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast. Posters advertising the brief were also circulated to schools of architecture and architectural practices around the UK.
Each Explorer will conduct interviews and uncover how, and why something works. Explorers will be tasked with bringing back material including film, photography, writing and drawing. The exhibition will tell their stories and make a series of proposals for changing British architecture.
By discovering the best ideas from around the world it is hoped that the British Pavilion will make an original contribution to the debate about architecture in the UK and influence the future direction of policy and practice at a moment of flux.
Venice Takeaway is curated by Vicky Richardson, Director of Architecture, Design, Fashion at the British Council and Vanessa Norwood, Head of Exhibitions at the Architectural Association.
Vicky Richardson said: ‘we were really pleased that so many people from diverse backgrounds responded to the Venice Takeaway brief. The proposals contained many surprises and new ideas; and we’re excited to see what comes out of the next stage of the project.’
Aberrant Architecture
Aberrant Architecture is a multi-disciplinary studio and think-tank, founded by directors David Chambers and Kevin Haley, which operates internationally in the fields of architecture, design, contemporary art & cultural analysis. From their studio in London, they strive to capture the best of the past and the contemporary in order to shape the future of the designed world.
The studio has established a reputation for playful, provocative and interactive projects that use architecture and design to introduce new and unexpected ways of experiencing the world. They regularly collaborate with local community groups, design professionals and place people at the heart of everything they do.
Operating simultaneously as a think tank, aberrant identify, question and research relevant issues in contemporary society in order to look beyond ‘building a building’ and to establish themselves as problem solvers as well as designers.
In 2010 they were architecture residents at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) and in the same year they co-founded The Gopher Hole, a gallery/venue in London, which through a public exhibition and talks programme provides a platform for critical debate on the arts and society.
Laura Allen, Geoff Manaugh, Mark Smout
Smout Allen and Manaugh first collaborated for the Landscapes Futures Super Workshop hosted in LA, a cross-disciplinary research platform for debate and invention. They collaborated again for Manaugh’s Landscape Futures: Instruments, Devices, and Architectural Inventions exhibition at the Nevada Museum of Art, Reno USA, for which Smout Allen provided the centrepiece, a large user-activated kinetic installation ‘Surface Tension’. The exhibition looked how the landscapes around us—natural and artificial, urban and geologic, aquatic, terrestrial, and atmospheric— are interpreted, filtered, or otherwise augmented by instruments, devices, and machines.
These themes are the mainstay of the group’s interests manifested in Manaugh’s teaching at Columbia University’s innovative Studio X Research Laboratory and his writing for BLDGBLOG and in Smout Allen’s teaching and architectural design proposals.
Geoff Manaugh is a renowned essayist, author, curator and blogger with a unique vision of the intersection of art, architecture, landscape and conjecture.
Mark Smout and Laura Allen are award winning architectural designers, researchers and Senior Lecturers based at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. Their teaching and architecture studio promotes design as an architectural laboratory that merges imaginative speculation and making with design and research practice.
Ross Anderson and Anna Gibb
Ross Anderson and Anna Gibb met whilst studying architecture in Aberdeen. Graduating whilst the UK is embroiled in recession has resulted in a challenging few years for each, as they begin their careers as young architects. They have found a creative freedom in entering architectural ideas competitions, as individuals and in collaboration with their peers, a welcome escape from the stresses and restrictions existing in their professional work. They have enjoyed a number of success’s and all have allowed them an opportunity to experiment with new ideas and give thought to work they would not have experienced in their office environments.
Ross is currently working as an architect in the North East of Scotland and Anna is living in Glasgow, working towards registering as an architect. Both have travelled widely in order to experience a variety of architecture from around the world; including South America, Australia, Hong Kong, and extensively within Europe. Ross and Anna are also passionate about art, photography and anything that involves craft, particularly hand drawing.
Darryl Chen
Darryl Chen speculates on urbanism. Darryl’s work rejects current orthodoxies in order to explore the perverse and underrated as source material for a provocative urban practice. His work has spanned community-based geo-engineering, self-incarcerating eco-villages and the possibilities of a ‘productive dystopia’.
Based in London, he is co-founder of thinktank Tomorrow’s Thoughts Today and currently leads urbanism at Hawkins\Brown. After studying architecture in the leafy suburbs of Australia, he deep-dived into the megalopolises of Asia working variously as a jazz musician, magazine copyeditor, design correspondent, and in the terminally frustrating fashion industry before taking architectural postings in Shanghai and London. He has taught studios at the Architectural Association and Bartlett schools of architecture.
dRMM
dRMM, a London based international studio of architects and designers, was founded by Alex de Rijke, Philip Marsh and Sadie Morgan in 1995. The practice takes pride in carrying out work that is innovative, high quality and socially useful. It has a track record of creating extraordinary architecture within the standard constraints of the construction industry. dRMM’s radical projects are driven by site, client needs, concept and construction, rather than formulaic or style-based decisions. Research work at dRMM is driven by the imaginative reinterpretation of familiar problems, materials and construction methods. For this occasion dRMM has assembled a crack team of explorers, under the navigation of Professor Captain de Rijke. The team includes Explorer Pietri, architect and division leader, Explorer Eayrs, gonzo journalist, and Explorer Bonzai, a professional film maker dealing mostly but not always in architecture.
Forum for Alternative Belfast
Forum for Alternative Belfast is a not for profit organisation that advocates for a better environment and plan for Belfast.
Mark Hackett is an architect and director in Forum, formerly a partner in Hackett Hall McKnight architects. In 2007 they won the competition to design the MAC arts centre shortly to be completed and opening in the Cathedral Quarter Belfast and in 2008 they won UK Young Architect of the Year. Mark left the partnership in June 2010 later becoming a full time director in Forum. He is external examiner in University of Dundee and has taught in architecture courses extensively since 1999. He is a board member of PLACE and ADAPT NI.
Declan Hill is an architect and director in Forum since May 2011, formerly associate in charge of housing in Todd Architects where he had worked since 1998 having won a number of national awards for housing. Previously Declan worked for six years in Hamburg, Dresden and Berlin where he completed a number of large housing and office projects. Declan is a founder and board member of the Black Box in Belfast, and sits on the boards of Belfast Exposed gallery and Flax Arts studios.
Torange Khonsari, Andreas Lang, Owen Pritchard, Alex Warnock-Smith
Public works (Torange Khonsari and Andreas Lang), Urban Projects Bureau (Alex Warnock-Smith) and Owen Pritchard work at the critical edge of architecture and design. They engage collaboratively in a range of cultural disciplines that blur the boundaries between architecture, art practice, urbanism, academia, journalism and critical discourse.
Through combined practices, they work directly with the social, cultural and political realities of the contemporary city, and experiment with the spatial disciplines that surround architectural practice. As a team, they collaborate in various constellations, and are motivated by a shared interest in the political transformation of their role as architects, designers, thinkers and do-ers.
Elias Redstone
Elias Redstone is an independent curator, writer, editor and consultant. He is the founder and curator of ARCHIZINES ¬– an international showcase of new architecture magazines, fanzines and journals – the editor-in-chief of the London Architecture Diary and an online columnist for the New York Times’ T Magazine. Previously, Elias was the curator of the Polish Pavilion at the 2010 Venice Architecture Biennale and hub curator of the 2008 London Festival of Architecture. He was senior curator at the Architecture Foundation, where he worked from 2003 to 2010 and initiated an international programme of exhibitions, events and film screenings. He has delivered projects in partnership with the Architectural Association, Barbican, British Council, Center for Architecture NYC, Design Museum, MoMA, Southbank Centre, Tate Modern and Victoria & Albert Museum; edited publications for Bedford Press and Sternberg Press; and acted as a contributing editor for Arena Homme Plus and GQ Style. Curatorial projects include Concrete Islands, I Shot Norman Foster, Hairywood and Southwark Lido.
Elias holds an MSc in City Design & Social Science from the London School of Economics and was awarded a Winston Churchill Fellowship in 2008 to research contemporary architecture in Latin America.
Liam Ross
Liam Ross is an architect, lecturer and doctoral candidate at the Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. He studied in Edinburgh and at the Architectural Association, and has practiced in London, New York and Edinburgh, principally with Malcolm Fraser Architects. His research concerns architecture as biopolitics, with a specific focus on the regulation of building; he is concerned with the ways in which – being regulated, becoming regulatory – architecture has comes to function as an extension of government, seeing its purpose as the safeguarding of the biological life of the population. His most recent publication on the topic is ‘Compliant Architecture: Regulatory Limits and the Materiality of Risk’, Candide No. 4, Actar 2011.
Takero Shimazaki /Toh Shimazaki Architecture
Takero Shimazaki is a Director of Toh Shimazaki Architecture, t-sa, a London based practice founded with Yuli Toh. The office was set up in 1996 and has completed public and private projects in the UK and abroad, including Centre For Sight, OSh House and London Rowing Club among others.
Shimazaki previously worked for Itsuko Hasegawa, Richard Rogers Partnership and Alison and Peter Smithson in Japan and the UK. Rosie McLaren and Meiri Shinohara of t-sa will be co-explorers; and Jennifer Frewen will be overseeing the overall coordination of the project.
Shimazaki is an Intermediate Unit 2 Master at the Architectural Association and a Director of Toh Shimazaki Architecture Forum, an international school of architecture linked to the practice.
This desk by Dutch designer Mieke Meijer is the first in a range of furniture based on images by German artists Bernd and Hilla Becher, known for their series of photographs that documented types of industrial structures like pylons, gas tanks and water towers.
This particular piece is based on an image of a winding tower and features a display cabinet overhanging one corner.
It’s on show at gallery Christian Ouwens in Rotterdam until 24 March.
Previous projects by Meijer on Dezeen include her cabinet based on the structure of industrial buildings from 2010 and the Newspaperwood project presented in Milan last year.
Photography is by Raw Color.
Here are some more details from Mieke Meijer:
From March 10 -24, Mieke Meijer presents a series of remarkable installations at gallery Christian Ouwens in Rotterdam (NL). The installations are inspired by the photographs of Bernd and Hilla Becher.
The black and white images of the photographers couple are best known for their ‘typologies’- grids of black-and-white photographs of variant examples of a single type of industrial structure.
Mieke Meijer restores these disused industrial shapes into functional installations which enable studying, collecting and storing. Each piece is hand made to her own interpretation with outstanding attention to industrial details and skilled craftmenship. The titles of the installations refer to their original function.
Exclusively for Christian Ouwens, Mieke Meijer designed Winding Tower 01; an architectural desk with as striking detail the unusually placed showcase (limited edition of 5 + 2 artist’s proofs).
Mieke Meijer (1982) graduated from the Design Academy Eindhoven in 2006. Since then she works on self- initiated and commissioned projects in her Eindhoven based workshop. Mieke Meijer regularly takes part in exhibitions in different contexts both nationally and internationally. Her ‘functional objects’ are the result of an ongoing investigation to the unperceived aesthetics of everyday life. She distils the essence and transforms ideas into designs that make a long-term appeal to the imagination, which helps them retain their value.
Transparent constructions, clean lines and clear shapes play an important role in Mieke Meijer’s work. Material and detailing both contribute to a recognisable signature. Her work is for sale through various galleries and shops in the Netherlands and abroad.
Christian Ouwens
Oppert 2 (zijstraat Meent)
3011 HV Rotterdam (NL)
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