# Mouvement en train de se faire de deux siècles - Christian Kerrigan
J'ai rencontré Christian Kerrigan il y a un an et demi (grâce à Yorgos Loizos) alors qu'il venait de terminer son diplôme à la Bartlett. Celui-ci partait d'une observation des tuteurs de bonsaï et mettait en scène la construction d'une architecture par le guidage mécanisé de la pousse d'arbres sur un temps total de deux siècles. Ce projet incarne donc un véritable éloge de la patience (!) et une belle hybridation de l'artefact et de la nature. (les images sont en excellentes définitions, n'hésitez pas à cliquer)
I read this Fredric Jameson 's book six months ago, and I don't know why I forgot to post a small article about it since I have been extremely interested by its content at that time... First of all I love absolutely the name of this book. Archaelogies of the Future. The Desire called Utopia . This second sentence is pretty much my own definition of Utopia that I am always comparing to the horizon, something to aim to without being ever able to reach it. This essay explores the notion of utopia through More and Marx, but more essentially through science fiction novels. The chapter about Stanislaw Lem 's literature is particularly interesting in its illustration of an attempt to describe the un-imaginable. The book has also been translated in French .
After yesterday's post about Constant's New Babylon's drawings, today is the one about his models. Once again, the same pictures are always visible but it exists a multitude of others; those following are only the visible side of the iceberg. If you want to read more about Constant and New Babylon, I recommend the excellent book from Mark Wigley, Constant's New Babylon: the hyper-architecture of desire Those models pictures are excerpted from two books: - Libero Andreotti & Xavier Costa. Situationists. Art, politics, urbanism . Actar 1996 - Mark Wigley. Constant's New Babylon: the hyper-architecture of desire. 010. 1998
This building must be very well known by people who live in Chicago, but until yesterday I never heard about it. Designed in 1975 by Harry Weese's office, the Metropolitan Correctional Center is a vertical prison in the very center of Chicago. The buildings definitely uses a feudal vocabulary of dungeon but is also striking by its discretion that makes it be easy to confused with an average office building. (the corollary is probably also true)