I gave a presentation at Green Monday’s yesterday. Thanks to Rob Oudendijk for the pictures.

I’m lost for words having seen this:

The Third & The Seventh from Alex Roman on Vimeo.

I wrote a short piece on Tokyo for the UIA World Congress of Architecture which will be held here in Tokyo in 2011.

A visiting architect-friend of mine described Tokyo colorfully as “an urban disaster with shit-piled-upon-shit”. Seeing my slightly annoyed face, he thoughtfully added “but it is fascinating shit”. This is a stereotypical reaction I have heard many times over, and not only from visitors. The Japanese themselves, architects as well as non-architects mutter an apologetic reference to European cities when we talk about Tokyo. Kenzo Tange once said that Tokyo has had many times over the chance to rebuild itself: after the Great Earthquake of 1923 or after the World War Ⅱ bombings, but according to Tange the rebuilding from an urban design’s point of view always failed. Did Tokyo, the world’s largest urban entity, really fail?

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A new building in Singapore features a facade made of 3,000 modules of which some contain light. At night these lights create animated patterns. very interesting building, l like the various open-garden levels created by the curvatures as well. (via Interactive architecture )

CRYSTAL MESH from autokolor on Vimeo.