The Green House - Skoglund´s

Celluloid e Cenografia? O trabalho de Skoglund´s é ambivalente e transpõe o despotismo do real, propalado por muitos fotógrafos do classicismo moderno.

Desde os anos 80, que aumentou por parte dos fotógrafos, um desejo de customizar as próprias fotos, conscientemente seguindo o trilho da Publicidade e do Hiper-realismo.

Não procurando os temas no mundo real, eles inventam novos mundos pictóricos, "fotografia de cenário".

Efeméride Walter Gropius

Pois, já não é dia 18, portanto é uma efeméride com moratória, nasceu no dia 18 de maio de 1883, o Arquiteto alemão Walter Gropius. Gropius acreditava que todo o desenho deveria ser funcional e esteticamente agradável, as suas teorias do binómio Forma/Função tornaram-se na bases da fundação da Bauhaus, que transformou a Arquitetura do sec: XX.

Walter Gropius was a German architect and art educator who founded the Bauhaus, which became a dominant force in architecture and the applied arts in the 20th century. His main theory was that all design should be functional as well as aesthetically-pleasing.

The Bauhaus school of design attracted artists in many disciplines, including painters Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky, graphic artist Käthe Kollwitz and expressionist art groups such as Die Brücke and Der Blaue Reiter. The school pioneered a functional, severely simple architectural style, featuring the elimination of surface decoration and extensive use of glass. Gropius resigned as the school's director in 1928 to return to private practice. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe followed as the next director.

Although Gropius is best known for the Bauhaus style, his architectural reputation was first established when, working with Adolph Meyer, he designed the Fagus Works (1910-1911) and the office building for the Werkbund exhibition in Cologne (1914).

Opposed to the Nazi regime, Gropius left Germany secretly in 1934. After several years in England, he joined the architecture faculty of Harvard University where he introduced Bauhaus concepts and design principles, including teamwork, standardization and prefabrication, to a generation of American architects.

Between 1938 to 1941, Gropius worked on a series of houses with Marcel Breuer before forming the Architects Collaborative in 1945. Among their commissions were the Harvard Graduate Center (1946), the U.S. Embassy in Athens and the University of Baghdad. One of his later designs, in collaboration with Pietro Belluschi, was the Pam Am Building (now the Metropolitan Life Building) in New York City.

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Omissão Significativa!

Este efeito verifica-se quando se omite o objeto significativo, que pela falta confere maior significado ou por ele não ser necessária à sua compreensão, podendo ser facilmente substituída por outra coisa.

No exemplo, a parede do campanário da igreja substitui a cruz, embora a sua presença seja induzida pela posição das mãos.

Conteúdo Teórico extraído do Gordon Cullen, Paisagem Urbana

Greg Minnar

Tentar

Não há comparação entre o que se perde por fracassar e o que se perde por não tentar.

Francis Bacon

Nem por isso!

Não conheço Lisboa na integra, para dar uma opinião que atenda ao todo sem marginalizar uma parte... mas a Rua Guerra Junqueiro (Alameda), principalmente na hora de almoço, é um hino a beleza feminina. E este facto per si, até torna o meu estágio como Arquiteto, minimamente suportável, ganho mal, no entanto sou ressarcido.

O assunto previsível! #2

É curial falar de vermelho, após o desaire do Sporting de hoje, mas em termos estatísticos parece que há elementos exteriores ao futebol, que jogam fora dos lotes dos convocados, relembrando a campanha do Benfica nos últimos anos, todos estes argumentos caem por terra perante as melhores estatísticas, porém, há quem enfatize a questão com números:

Russell Hill and Robert Barton of Durham University in the UK tracked success in four Olympic sports: boxing, taekwondo, Greco-Roman wrestling and freestyle wrestling. In these sports athletes do not wear national colours, but are randomly assigned either red or blue. Of 441 bouts, reds won 242 and in all four sports reds triumphed in more contests. And the red advantage was higher in close encounters: 62 per cent of red-garbed competitors won these. But in pushover contests there were similar numbers of red and blue winners. "If you're rubbish, a red shirt won't stop you from losing," Barton says.
The same is true in soccer. Five teams in the Euro 2004 competition who had predominantly red in one of their two kits all did significantly better while wearing red, scoring around one extra goal per game.
Such effects could be due to instinctive behaviour, says Barton. In animal displays red in particular seems to vary with dominance and testosterone levels. Human competitors might experience a testosterone surge while wearing the colour, he says, or feel submissive when facing a scarlet opponent.

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Deflexão

A deflexão acontece, quando um eixo de uma rua ortogonal, não é perpendicular a uma fachada na convergência do centro perspético. Este desfasamento, cria a expectativa de que há algo na rua a seguir, que cria esta oscilação. Este espaço criado não se vê, mas sente-se que deve existir na parte oculta pelo edifício.

Conteúdo Teórico extraído do Gordon Cullen, Paisagem Urbana

Steve Peat Wins World Cup Downhill Vigo

Mais uma Vitória, a somar a tantas do invejável corredor da Orange, que após ter desfeito dúvidas em relação ao reinado do DownTown, volta a triunfar de forma indiscutível no início de época 2005, seguido de perto por Greeg Minnar, vencedor 2003 do Worl Cup UCI.

The 2005 UCI Mountain Bike Downhill World Cup kicked off this weekend on the Atlantic coast of Spain, on the outskirts of the city of Vigo, in front of an estimated 25,000 spectators. The Downhill race today saw Greg Minnaar (RSA) take the podium with a strong 2nd place finish, and young newcomer to the team Matti Lehikoinen (FIN) finishing an impressive 7th, just 0.3 seconds off the podium.
Vigo is a new venue for the World Cup circuit and the course proved to be very popular among the top riders who found the roughly two and half minutes of trail, just a few kilometers from the city centre, to be an excellent mix of speed and technical terrain. Known for mixed weather at this time of the year, and after a week of rain prior to the event, the training in Vigo took place in near perfect conditions. Timed training on Saturday saw Greg with the 3rd fastest time and Matti 4th, and this was to set the tone for the semi final today.
Today saw the return of the rain in the morning and a change in the course. Due to the slippery conditions the race officials eliminated a large rocky section that had already caused World Champion Fabien Barel to crash in training earlier in the week. The riders then by-passed this section, which slowed them by a few seconds but otherwise the course was ideal for racing, as the sun came out later in the day.
The first race of the season is always difficult, as the riders don't always know where they stand with their main opponents, both in physical and technical preparation. With a month until Round 2 in Germany, the main goal for both Greg and Matti was to score solid points and get the World Cup campaign off to a smooth start. With 50 points up for grabs in the semi final both riders went for solid runs. Greg finished 3rd with a time of 2min 36.303s, and amazingly, Matti finished just 1/1000th of a second behind Greg with 2min 36.304s, for a 4th place. This gave both riders strong points and set the scene for the final.
For the final the course had dried out even more and both riders opted for dry tyres despite Matti having used semi-mud tyres for the semi final race. Matti finished the final with a strong time of 2min 33.492s taking nearly 3 seconds off his morning time. Greg then came down the course and took Sam Hill, 2004 World Cup 2nd placed rider, out of the hot seat with the fastest time of the day at 2min 28.668s. The time wasn't beaten by the next rider Mick Hannah however 2004 World Cup Champion Steve Peat once again showed how strong he could be at the start of the season with an impressive 2min 25.791s. This meant that Greg's 2nd in the final, and his 3rd in the semi final, secured him a strong 2nd overall in the Series thus far. Matti's 4th in the semi final, and his eventual 7th in the final, means that he now stands 6th in the World Cup overall, his best ever standing in the series.

Results:

1 Steve Peat (Team Orange)

2 Greg Minnaar (Team G Cross Honda)

3 Sam Hill (Iron Horse Mad Catz)

4 Mick Hannah (Haro Bikes)

5 Nathan Rennie (Santa Cruz Syndicate)

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