Recently we have been working on a chandelier design, a huge ceiling lamp that can illuminate the space in a twofold method. It has an opening on the top and the bottom, in a diagonal layout. The concept plays with ideas of gradient light scattering. The light bounces inside a tube that form the diagonal connection between the apertures. The entire model is a seamless, topological body, articulated by a series of sinews and folds which create specific shadow patterns. The raw body of the chandelier is fabricated in two components by a seven axis industrial strenght robot.
It's been a long time since I posted anything. A lot has happened in this last year....
Aug. 24th 2007, got married in Hawaii...
Then my father died on October 19th, 2007...
Then my wife and I found out we were going to have a baby...
Athena Blue Tempest Shaw was born on July 23rd... 10:57 PM during a massive Thunderstorm...
Meanwhile, I also launched my own Motion Graphics Design Studio... Right On Media Corporation
http://www.righton-studio.com
Been doing projects for VH1, The National Geographic Channel, and AMC...
Still working on the Jazz Art, although it is starting to become more of a series about Music... I hope to photograph all genres of music. Also doing some Animal Totem Art...
Starting fall this year I have been assigned to teach the Advanced Architecture Studio at the Bauhaus Dessau Institute of Architecture. The studio will concentrate this fall on the exploration of one specific task, emerging from the field of advanced architecture thinking. I will post more details of the Studio outline soon. You can check out the previous course blog here
I'm like totally sick of yoga. After 11 years I'm yoga-ed out. So as a part of self discovery/ self torture, I'm going to make myself go everyday for the next 30 days. I'm not worried about my self-discipline. It's just really hard to find time when I work 50 hours a week. Also, I can't do much yoga in the evenings because it keeps me up and then I don't sleep and therefore don't have the energy to go the following day and it creates a vicious cycle. So up I am, at 6 everyday. Hungover or not!
Based on some of the recent explorations in our practice we designed this semesters task for the Students of the Dessau Institute of Architecture, Bauhaus Dessau: to scrutinize floral entities an their underlying geometric logic to create spatial conditions:
The latest issue of the renowned Architecture Magazine SPACE features an article on the Brancusi Museum.
This Semester I had three students to coach as second adviser for their Thesis work at the Bauhaus Dessau, DIA Dessau Institute of architecture. They all had the same typology, a highriser. All of them used computational design techniques to explore the morphology of the highriser, especially in the aspects of performativity. Sandra and I travelled to Dessau for the presentation of all the thesis works that spanned two days of presenations. One very special guest appeared on invitation by Prof. Alfred Jacoby director of the postgraduate master course of the DIA: Lars Lerup, Dean of Rice University in Texas. A University I consider highly interesting considering the amazing faculty that includes the likes of Sanford Kwinter, David Erdman, Clover Lee and Sean Lally.
I'm still on the level 3 track. Today was 16-13-11-11-20. Not bad. I feel like doing these at the end of the day means doing a little less, but maybe I'm wrong. Anyway, I'm excited by the progress but nervous when I sneak a peek at week 5. That's gonna be a doozy.
