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Hey people this is very cool!
Paris based Skateboard company MEKANISM has teamed up with MIT Media Lab guru John Maeda to do a limited edition skate deck graphic.
I wish I had one! Hey MEKANISM, where can I get one?
For those of you who do not know who John Maeda is you should! Go to his web sites and check it out www.maedastudio.com
My students in Degree Unit D something of note for our trip to Paris at the end of November, John Maeda will have an exhibition from November 19th 2005 to February 19th 2006 at the Fondation Cartier in Paris, France.
Maeda Rocks!

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They Won! The model images posted last week were for a competition entry for a school in Southern Chile! Which was won by these guys, way to go Antonio! Things are definitely happening in the south!

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I just had to post something on The Gonz, artist, poet, skater! This is Mark Gonzales he is a legend in the skateboarding world. For all you Architecture / Design heads, he was involved in the Mood River exhibition events at The Wexner Center for the Arts that was curated by Jeff Kipnis. The Gonz also has his own skateboard company called KROOKED!
So get it straight check out KROOKED!

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This is Serrated Image they make some of the most dynamic images of skateboarding I have ever seen. Now they are making films using the same technique go and have a look, 'PASSENGER.' If only architecture could look so dynamic!

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Gave tutorials today with my diploma students.... these 2 models were highlights in a day that was pretty much unexciting, and one of the models only appeared after Robert and I played with it! Look people you can not go through this year at this pace of production. You will have a very hard time in passing if you keep on going at things in such a slow, imprecise, and overall lazy way of working! I hope things get a bit more professional soon!!!!!!! Also out of 19 of you only 1 person took my advice and started to get his portfolio formatting underway. Look, go to MUJI and get the portfolios going, this is advice you should take!!!!!!

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These are some shots of a very cool model of a very cool project sent to me by Antonio for a project somewhere in Chile for some lucky Germans that need educating. It was designed by Antonio and his mates, I don't know the name of your practice..... send the name and i will update the entry.
Note to my students... this is what a good model looks like! So take notes!!!!

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I was sent this link by my buddy Antonio who is settling in back in his home town of Santiago, Chile.
Ochoalcubo is a new architecture development that is being built as we speak in Marbella, Chile. It involves some of Chile's most exciting architects like Mathias Klotz and Cecilia Puga and it also has international architectural stars like Toyo Ito involved as well. Take a look!

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Ok, so in the mid 90's Stereo Skateboards was the coolest team going! Cool graphics, Cool riders, Cool videos, just about cool everything! They shut down shop for a while to pursue other creative avenues and now they are back and have an even richer vibe of coolness! Go and check out there site now! OR PERISH!
StereoSoundAgency!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Here is a cool site from a fellow native of New Jersey. Chris Pastras, original member of Shut Skates NYC skateboard team, pro skateboarder, artist, overall creative type extraordinaire, and super nice guy. Tune into The Love Station!.

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Yesterday the 18th Unit D had there final review on the 2 week project to design a glass house anywhere in London.
I would like to thank the guest Jurors Sybil Trigg, Andrew Taylor, and Mark Hayduk for taking part and for there criticisms.
As a whole the work seen was very exciting and all were impressed with the amounts produced in 2 weeks.

The new project brief was also given out yesterday. Everyone was given one of the Case Study House projects to study and redraw.
These drawings will act as there underlay to develop diagrammatic drawing techniques and to investigate the dynamics of the spaces.

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These are some images by Cristobal Palma he is an amazing photographer! You may have seen some of his images gracing the pages of ICON magazine recently. If you haven't go to his web site and see what you have been missing! http://www.cristobalpalma.com/

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Today was the last day to discuss there 2 week project to design a Glass House.....
Some interesting ideas have been developing.
They have a Final review on Tuesday the18th!

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DSRG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hey everyone, these are friends of mine that are doing some of the most ground breaking design research in architecture today, seriously cool work! Check out there forum and get in on the conversations. Maybe some of them will be able to visit Diploma Unit 9 reviews this year.
Also I like that there are no vowels in there initials. Unlike FOA and OMA that when pronounced sound like names from the Ozarks, DSRG could be classified as a sound made in a Sci-Fi film. Go on try to pronounce it!
See, totally Sci-Fi.....Cool!!!

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Today we had a pin –up with Diploma Unit 9. Some interesting ideas and viewpoints on the site and what might be proposed. But there was almost a complete avoidance of engaging with the very specific brief given out. Come on people stop avoiding the brief!!!!! Considering it has been 10 days since the brief was given out there are no excuses!
The unit has been given the brief for the Yokohama International Port Terminal competition; won by Foreign Office Architects, and instead of placing the terminal in Yokohama Bay they are to place these demands in the Thames.
Photogenic bunch, aren’t they?!

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theArchitectureRoom.com

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If you go down to the Adidas Originals Store in Covent Garden you will see there version of 2 design clasics. The Grand Confort Armchair by Le Corbusier (1929) and the Barcelona Chair by Mies van der Rohe (1927)!
You will notice that the cushions are filled with chopped up trainers. Now that is a nice way to recycle!

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Toyo Ito is by far one of the coolest architects out there and now he is a gold medalist!

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Shut Skates Is back!
In the late 80's early 90's these guys were East Coast Skatebording!!
They had the sickest team and ruled New York City!

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Everyone was in studio today working away on the first project of the term. (Design a Glass House!)
Some very good and ambitious ideas so far from the Unit.
We will see how things develope for Tuesday the 11th.
Phillip Johnson and MiesVan der Rohe are either shaking in there boots or turning in there graves!!!

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This is the current deck that I am skating right now. It's made by Blueprint Skateboards a UK based company. Nice pop and the graphics are nice and clean.

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This is Sarah King, she is a very dynamic jeweller. Oh and she is also my wife!
If you want bling bling check it out at www.sarah-king.co.uk!!!!!

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These shoes have major steez!
I skate them and never want to go back to any other, sorry Vans!
NikeSkateboarding.com

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Archinect, great place to see what is happening in architecture.

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I always consult this site before I travel to another city. If you like exclusive shops and lurking at the latest bar or boutique hotel this is the place, superfuture.com

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Here is a sneak peak at a project in the works right now a 200 Sqm Private residence in Iceland. It's in the planners office right now......

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Reebok or RBK and DGK are holding a contest to design a board graphic.http://www.rbk.com/us/DGK/boardlist.asp?searchstate=&p=3
go and check it out, in that case vote for my entry or you can enter it yourself.

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Degree Unit D started officially on Tuesday the 4th. A few changes this year from the past 2 years, unit staff member Antonio Lipthay has left us and moved back to Santiago, Chile with his wife Justine, (all the best guys!). The second change is we are joined by new unit staff member Thomas Modeen of Small Architecture (welcome aboard Tom)! The unit is very large this year with 20 students who come from a variety of countries around the globe.

Lightness-Houses: Case Studies for livable spaces of evanescence in public and private London!

“In this architecture of “lightness,” buildings become intangible, structures shed their weight, and facades become unstable, dissolving into an often luminous evanescence.”
Terence Riley

“Taken literally, the term private house might apply to any dwelling that shelters an individual or family, whether it is a palace or a tent. However, in Western culture the private house has been subject to tremendous interest and controversy in that it has been considered as a type of housing intended for a specific class of people: the bourgeoisie in Europe and the middle class in the United States. As such, the concept of the private house has become associated with a range of political, moral, social, and economic issues. “
Terence Riley

This year Unit D will be engaging with living in the city and how the ‘private house’ settles into these conditions. With a demand for new housing in the UK at higher densities how does the architectural icon of the ‘private house’ relate to the new urban demands?

With new patterns of living, boundaries between public and private realms that seem to shift constantly and the hybridization of work and leisure in peoples lives today how does the private house currently project these sensibilities and issues and can the ‘private house’ change or modify the urban landscape?

Transparency, luminosity, and veils, with these and additional themes that the unit develops we aim to redefine the relationship between the observer and the structure.

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Unit 9 out on a site visit of the River Thames.

Aqua - Terra Thames Gateway Cruise terminal + X

London’s public space on the river Thames, residential – industrial mix

The site: Unit 9 continues their theme of borders and boundaries by investigating the linear space between land and water that runs through London. In contrast to the abstract political, national and cultural boundaries from last year this edge is physical, tangible, with its specific materiality.

The river Thames is one of London’s greatest assets and at the same time the most underused. The river provides the largest, open, and continues ‘green spaces’ in London, historical it was the main contributor to London importance as political and commercial centre. From here the unknown worlds were discovered and conquered.

Protection for wharfs: To this day active wharfs are located along the embankments of the Thames. They are vital for London’s survival by bringing material for the never ending building construction into the city centre or ship tons of waste daily to landfill sites outside London.

The mayor of London has recognised their importance: They are protected from change of use.

In recent years the river has been rediscovered a public space and transport artery. However there are only very few public spaces on the river it self. With the new development in the currently industrial river banks of the east there is a great opportunity to redefine London’s relation with the river.

This year the unit will look in the first part of the year at specific industrial sites on the eastern section of the river.
The second part of the year we will broaden the view to understand the strategic importance of the river, the Thames Gateway Corridor for the future of London.

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Diploma Unit 9 kicked off on Monday the 3rd! We have been re-branded as Unit 9 this year from Unit 6. Well maybe we have just grown up a bit. The unit is 19 strong and it looks to be an exciting year. Unit 9 is run by Robert Thum and I and we hope to continue our relationship with Paul Coates who runs the MSc in computing.

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Jeffrey Turko is a founder and principal member of NEKTON a studio that engages with experimental design. He has taught at the Architectural Association and is currently teaching at The University of East London School of Architecture and Visual Arts.
email: jeffturko@nekton.org

Registered Architect

2000- : Stichting Bureau Architectenregister, Registered Architect, The Netherlands, registration num:1.000401.014

Architectural Education:

1993-1999: AA Diploma. RIBA parts 1 & 2, Architectural Association School of Architecture London, England.
1991-1993: Mercer County Community College, Architecture Program, Mercer County, New Jersey.

Professional Experience:

2002: NEKTON, London UK
2000 – 04: 51% Studios, London, UK, designer / coordinator
1999: UN-studio van Berkel & Bos, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Competition project involvement, designer / coordinator
1998: Michael Landau Associates, Princeton, New Jersey, Architectural assistant
1997: T.R. Hamzah & Yeang Sdn. Bhd. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Architectural assistant

Professional involvements:

2002: Founder of NEKTON
2000-2002: Collaborator with OCEANnorth: www.ocean-north.net
1999-2002: Co-founder Urban Office, research group, dissolved in 2002

Key Design Projects

Urban design:

2004: Project X, Ideas for housing, Barcelona, Spain (competition)
2001: Surfacing_Fields, Re-Planning Peetri Plats, Narva, Estonia (competition)
2000: LANDSCrAPER_ Urban Organizer & Urban Intensifier Dusseldorf, Germany, Commissioned by the NRW Forum for Culture & Science, In collaboration with: Ocean North, Consultants: Ove Arup & Partners, London (invited proposition)
1999: Urban Anomaly, Bjørvika Oslo. Norway (research project)
1999: Asian Design Forum, Taipei Taiwan, AA team with Mohsen Mostafavi AA Chairman, (invited proposition)

Building design:

2005: Betty House, Iceland (private commission)
2004: Sarah King Jewelry, Temporary Showroom, London, UK
2004: Experimental House 2004, (competition)
2003: Icelandic Ambassadors Residence, Berlin (competition)
2002: Bus Stop design, Indian USA (competition)
2001-02: 802 N.Hulet House, Flagstaff Arizona (private client)
2001: World Center for Human Concerns, Proposal for New World Trade Centre NYC, Commissioned by Max Protach Gallery, New York, In collaboration with: OceanNorth (invited proposition)
2000: Inside_Out_House, Nurinkurinen_Talo, Pomarkku House competition, Finland (competition)
2000: LANDSCrAPER_Urban RIng Bridge Dusseldorf, Germany, Commissioned by the NRW Forum for Culture & Science, In collaboration with: OceanNorth, Consultants: Ove Arup & Partners, London (invited proposition)
1999: Anomalous Gallery, Bjørvika Oslo, Norway (research project)

Research interests:
Development of architectural form through digital and analogue computational Techniques.

Teaching:

2003 - 06: University Of East London School of Architecture and Visual Arts, Degree Unit_D
2005 – 06: University Of East London School of Architecture and Visual Arts, Diploma Unit _9
2001 – 05: University Of East London School of Architecture and Visual Arts, Diploma Unit _6
2001: Transitions Summer School, Architectural Association School of Architecture
2000: Intense Urbanism Summer School, Architectural Association School of Architecture
1999 –2000: Architectural Association School of Architecture, First Year Unit 2
1999: Multiplicities Summer School, Architectural Association School of Architecture

Teaching Workshops:
2000: University of Pennsylvania, London studio, High-rise-Horizontal. Post-graduate studio with Homa Farjadi & Pablo Lazo
2000: Diploma unit 4_Urban Studio, Architectural Association School of Architecture, Modeling 2 Work Shop, with Michael Hensel
1999: Diploma unit 4_Urban Studio, Architectural Association School of Architecture, Analogue Modeling of Dynamic Systems workshop

Invited Critic:

2005: Architectural Association, London Metropolitan University, Graduate Design D.R.L. Design Research Laboratory Architectural Association
2004: Architectural Association, TU Vienna
2003: Architectural Association, Greenwich University London
2002: Architectural Association, Graduate Design D.R.L. Design Research Laboratory, Architectural Association, Inter-unit 2
2001: Expert team jury critic Architectural Association, Diploma Unit_4 Urban Studio
2000: Architectural Association, Graduate Design D.R.L. Design Research Laboratory, Phase1, University of Pennsylvania, KTH Stockholm, Sweden

Published Work:

2005:Blobjects and Beyond: The New Fluidity in Design World Center for Human Concerns, as Urban Office in collaboration with: OceanNorth; Published by Chronicle Books,U.S.
2004: Landscape Urbanism, A Manual for the Machinic Landscape: LANDSCrAPER_Urban RIng Bridge & World Center for Human Concerns, as Urban Office in collaboration with: OceanNorth, Published by Architectural Association Publications
2002:A New World Trade Center Exhibition; Design Proposals, Max Protetch World Center for Human Concerns in collaboration with: OceanNorth; Published by HarperCollins
2002:AD Architectural Design magazine, Furniture and Architecture, Practice Profile; Ocean North World Center for Human Concerns and LANDSCrAPER_Urban RIng Bridge In collaboration with: OceanNorth; Wiley-Academy publishing
2002: Space of Extremes, Do-group, Space the Final Extreme, Published by the Oslo School of Architecture
2002: Contemporary Techniques in Architecture, AD Architectural Design magazine, Virtually Crash Testing the Box, Wiley-Academy publishing
2000: Maja, Estonian Architecture Magazine 2001 2 – 2001 (29) Surfacing_Fields, Re-Planning Peetri Plats, Narva, Estonia
2001:Meidän Talo, Finish building Magazine, ‘Inside_Out_House, Nurinkurinen_Talo,” Pomarkku House competition, Finland
2001: 10+1 no. 22 Architecture 2001: Forty Navigations, INAX publishing
2000: Maja, Estonian Architecture Magazine 2/3 – 2000 (26) ‘Bjørvika Project’’
2000: Living Bridges Die schönsten Brücken vom Mittelalter bis zum Cyberspace
NRW-Forum Kultur and Wirtschaft Düsseldorf pp.60-63
2000: Morgenbladet 2 June 2000, Norwegian national newspaper, “Byrom Som Bølger Urban Topografi” pp. Front & 4-5
1995: AA files 30, Autumn 1995 "Sites Seen: AA Intermediate Unit 5 - 'Constructed Memories'." pp. 80-81.

On-line publishing:
2005: www.nekton.org design studio website
2005: www.jeff-turko.net web-log interface used for the broadcasting of research and developments in my professional and educational endeavors as well as other interests.
2005: www.diploma-unit-9.net web-log interface of post graduate design diploma unit 9, used for the broadcasting of research, development and information dissemination.
2005: www.degree-unit-d.net web-log interface of undergraduate design degree unit D, used for the broadcasting of research, development and information dissemination.

Conferences, Symposia, & Lectures:

2002: Architectural Association School of Architecture in London. Contemporary Techniques in Architecture: ‘Crash Testing The Box’, AD-Wiley Academy book launch
2002: do-group: www.do-group.net, The Space of Environmental Extremes, Helsinki
2001: Form Seminar, Oslo School of Architecture
2001: Transitions Conference: Urbanisms of Change, Architectural Association School of Architecture
2001: do-group: www.do-group.net, The Space of InFormation, London

Organizations:

2001-2005:
do-group: Diatactical Operations And Dynamic Relations In Design, Conference / Workshop 2001 – 05

Exhibitions:
2006:
Future City: Barbican Art Gallery
World Center for Human Concerns, in collaboration with: OceanNorth.
2005:
March / July
World Center for Human Concerns @ San Jose Museum of Art
Blobjects & Beyond: The New Fluidity In Design
From March 6 to July 10, in collaboration with: OceanNorth.
2003:
February
World Center for Human Concerns @ The Architectural Association, London
Contours: Evolutionary Strategies for Design
From 28th of Feb till 28th of March, in collaboration with: OceanNorth.
2002:
January
World Center for Human Concerns @ Max Protetch Gallery, New York
'A new World Trade Center' Exhibition at the Max Protetch Gallery
From 17 January to 16 February, in collaboration with: OceanNorth.
April
World Center for Human Concerns @ the National Building Museum, Washington DC
'A new World Trade Center' Exhibition at the National Building Museum, Washington DC
From 7 April to early June 2002, in collaboration with: OceanNorth.
July/August
World Center for Human Conerns @ the Vitra Design Museum, Berlin
'A new World Trade Center' Exhibition at the Vitra Design Museum in Berlin
From July to August 2002, in collaboration with: OceanNorth.
September/November
World Center for Human Concerns @ the Architecture Biennale in Venice
'A new World Trade Center' Exhibition at the Architecture Biennale in Venice
From 4 September to 24 November 2002, in collaboration with: OceanNorth.
2000:
‘Living Bridges’ Dusseldorf, Germany
LANDSCrAPER_Urban Ring Bridge
Commissioned by the NRW Forum for Culture & Science
In collaboration with: OceanNorth
Consultants: Ove Arup & Partners, London

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http://www.nekton.org

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