- The third and the seventh: imagination materialized or Alex Roman’s computer generated art. Via Michael Nielsen.
- Staying in CG: meet Julia Map, of Google ancestry. And since we’re here, read how the fractals changed the world –which was in a way also part of the obituary to Father Fractal, Benoit Mandelbrot, who passed away a couple of months ago; see a better one from the Economist.
Category: architecture
Tallinn highlights. And the egoists.
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Architecture-wise, the Old Town is a combination of Brasov+ Cluj + Sighisoara centres (Transylvanian cities), including a mirror image of the Taylor’s Bastion from Cluj (despite my guide’s insistence that Tallinn is the only city with a Bastion in its very centre).
Klausenburg, anno 1865
→ Read moreWHEN you leave Szamos Ujvár, the road passes straight over a plain, with little or nothing to relieve the monotony. A Hungarian village or two, a nobleman’s mansion with the surrounding farm-buildings,-that is all, until the tall spire and the various towers of Klausenburg rise before you.
Back from Catalunya
My Iberian experience (previous episodes here, here and here, some still incomplete) continued with 10 great (although unbearably hot…) end August days in Barcelona, around the EEA-ESEM conference this year, excellently hosted by the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics, in its two campuses at Autònoma and Pompeu Fabra.
→ Read more (New) Dutch architecture or urbanism in three dimensions
Here’s an excellent article in NYTimes about MVRDV, nowadays the (no reservations) top Dutch architects (here’s their website, describing their projects etc.; here’s a brief slideshow presentation of some of their work, accompanying the article above).
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