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The Disco Deskrama

"Deskrama is a low-cost interactive space browser for three dimensional architectural designs. Moving its light-weight LCD panel on a plan drawing of a building displays on the LCD panel a three dimensional interior view of the building model as if it were placed on the plan and sectioned at the position where the panel touches the drawing. The key idea is a spatial synchronization of different architectural representations such as a two dimensional abstraction and photo realistic three dimensional perspective."

Le Deskrama est un navigateur 3D interactif de visualisation architecturale .
En déplaçant a lightweight LCD a plan view of a building, the image that appears is an interior view dimensional of said building
... It's great, the place where the screen is placed on the drawing, a virtual section is projected on the screen (see photo above).

[I did not understand the mode of operation of the machine, until I remember that it's magic and practice]

"The main idea is a spatial synchronization of different architectural representations such that a two-dimensional abstraction and photo-realistic three-dimensional perspective. "

I want one ...

[+] Siggraph
[+] Deskrama

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Frank Gehry: Art + Architecture

The term "starchitect " suits him very well. His fame reached the designers of haute couture, Hollywood stars ... Even without being fond of architecture, nobody can ignore Frank Gehry and his extraordinary creations , against the foot of ambient post-modernism foremost among them the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao or Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles.

Frank Owen Goldenberg known to O'Gehry Frank is one of the architects who have profoundly revolutionized the forms and ideas in architecture has arrived turn cities into open-air museums which is exceptional.

Some even use the term "genius " to describe his ability to develop structures of increasing complexity. Frank Gehry has exploded left his formal imagination to generate a series hyper stylized works recognizable

all ... But there is, as always, downside . Some critics are quick to say that Gehry is made in a mold and that its projects tend to repeat themselves but I find it quite ironic and it's a defect of the current system: the architects offer a clear style and customers ask them reproductions of this style: branding becomes the architect of his trap.

The star system has affected the architecture late, compared to other arts and cultural sectors. Through starchitects as Gehry, the public is now open to "more experimental works" while productions of Le Corbusier have been frankly hated at the time of their creation ...

Above: Trailer for the film "Sketches from Frank Gehry "feature film documentary by Sydney Pollack devoted entirely to the architect that I long to go!

[+] Comments on the film by Coste-Orbach architects
[+] trailer in French

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[Updated 4/10/2006]

• Supplement reflection on the subject in Coste-Orbach
• New blog entirely devoted to Gehry (English)