ONLINE
POWERED
EXPERIMENTS,
RESEARCH &
ARCHITECTURE

AT THE HEART OF OUR TEACHING LIES THE OPERA UNIT: EACH DESIGN STUDIO REVOLVES AROUND AN ONLINE POWERED TOPIC, DRIVEN BY A SOCIO-CULTURAL INVESTIGATION OF THE INTERNET. THEREBY WE ARE RESEARCHING A HUGE SPECTRUM OF MEDIA SPECIFIC SUBJECTS: GAMING, LIFESTREAMING, SOCIAL VR SPACES, MEME CULTURE, SOCIAL MEDIA, DIGITAL ANTHROPOLOGY, VIRTUAL ARCHAEOLOGY, ETC... IN DOING SO, WE WANT TO INITIATE AN ARCHITECTURAL DISCOURSE UNDER THE SIGN OF CURRENT INTERNET PHENOMENA AND COMMUNICATION CULTURE. BY EXPERIMENTING WITH DATABASES, ARCHIVES AND OTHER PLATFORMS OF SHARING ECONOMIES, WE STRIVE TO CREATE A FLAT DESIGN ONTOLOGY. THROUGH THE CULTURAL PRACTICE OF COPYING, SAMPLING, OVERLAYING, RECODING AND SHARING, WE COLLECTIVELY ARTICULATE ARCHITECTURAL VISIONS OF TODAY, TO PROVIDE OUR STUDENTS WITH A CONTEMPORARY VOCABULARY IN ORDER TO MEET THE CHALLENGES OF BEING A LITERATE ARCHITECT OF TOMORROW.

TEACHING METHODOLOGY I: SAMPLING

IN OUR TEACHING WE PUT SPECIFIC EMPHASIS ON THE METHODOLOGY OF “SPATIAL SAMPLING”. THIS REFERS TO THE ACT OF RECORDING, DIGITIZING AND DECONTEXTUALIZING A SPATIAL FRAGMENT THROUGH THE USAGE OF 3D CAPTURING TECHNOLOGIES (LIDAR, PHOTOGRAMMETRY, VOLUMETRIC CAPTURING).

TEACHING METHODOLOGY II: ARS COMBINATORIA

THE CONCEPT OF ARS COMBINATORIA PLAYS A CENTRAL ROLE IN THE DESIGN AND COMPOSITION PROCESS, AS IT MEANS TO CREATIVELY CRAFT AND COMBINE DIFFERENT SAMPLES FROM DIFFERENT SOURCES, DATABASES AND ARCHIVES.

TEACHING METHODOLOGY III: MACHINIMA

AFTER ALL, REAL-TIME GAME ENGINES, SUCH AS UNITY 3D OR UNREAL ENGINE 5 ARE OUR WEAPONS OF ARE OUR WEAPONS OF CHOICE TO CREATE HYPERREAL CINEMATIC PRODUCTIONS, EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILMS AND IMMERSIVE, INTERACTIVE EXPERIENCES.

AGE OF YOU: THE ARCHITECTURE OF STREAMING ARCHITECTURE
MASTER DESIGN STUDIO 2021_2022

AGE OF YOU IS A DESIGN STUDIO THAT EXPLORES MEDIA ASSEMBLAGES, THE SPACES OF WORLD WIDE WEB AND ITS ARCHITECTURE, TO UNDERSTAND HOW IT CHANGES WHAT WE ARE AND HOW WE LIVE. PRECISELY WE WILL LOOK CLOSELY AT THE PHENOMENON OF STREAMING CULTURE AND ITS ARCHITECTURAL UNDERSTANDINGS AND FORMULATIONS. THIS WILL INCLUDE A HUGE VARIETY OF DISPARATE AGENTS, SUCH AS HOSTS, CROWDS, SPACES, INFRASTRUCTURES, MECHANISMS, PROTOCOLS, RITUALS, CULTS AND DATA, TO NAME JUST A FEW OF THEM. WE WILL ALSO PUT THOSE AGENTS IN RELATION TO EACH OTHER TO SEE HOW THEY PERFORM AS A NETWORK DETERMINED BY A HIGH COUNT OF PARAMETERS, SUCH AS CONNECTIVITY, TRANSPARENCY, UBIQUITY, PERFORMATIVITY, EMPATHY, IRONY, FIDELITY, ACCESSIBILITY, … AND SO ON. THE AIM OF THE DESIGN STUDIO IS TO PROVIDE STUDENTS WITH THE VOCABULARY OF CONTEMPORARY DIGITAL CULTURE SO THEY CAN ADEQUATELY MEET THE CHALLENGES OF BEING A LITERATE ARCHITECT OF TODAY (AND TOMORROW).

Monday August 3 2020
Claire S. — Cut and Blow — Cuts on rainy days are the worst — a wreckage of variables. I need to clone myself so I can get out of here. No call from Julian for the third straight week.

Tip = $125.00

Monday August 10 2020
Kym R. — Cut and Blow — The city is a bad hairstylist — they trimmed our beautiful trees; no warning — too much sky. Mercury in retrograde.

Tip = $100.00

Know your neuromodulators, injectables, volumizers, fillers and peels.

Monday August 17 2020
Unknown — Color, Cut and Blow — Never has someone made such a scene from my chair. “You’ve ruined my life!!” Etc. Etc. I have such raging l’esprit de l'escalier! Of course on a day with new clients all around. But returned her venom with firm grace and apology. Thought it wise not to unleash; “I can’t afford a whole new set of enemies.” She didn’t pay; I should have had her arrested. Cigarette?

Tip = $00.00

Monday August 24 2020
Hannah J. — Cut and Blow — it is remarkable how much this woman looks like Marisa Berenson in Death in Venice. Too beautiful really, distractingly so. Especially looking at this autumn leaf of a face. I think she’s a lawyer too. Oh and she’s nice. A nice, gorgeous shark in the water.

Tip = $100

Monday August 31 2020
Tracy M. — Color, Cut and Blow — The new salon is brilliant. Aqueous filtered light everywhere — otherworldly. Nicholas is a master. I am broke but worth it. He even remembered the quince blossoms. Long, noble Quince flanking every station. I’m in ecstasy.

Tip = $150.00

Old Wiccan Charm For Blessing Your Station

Monday September 7 2020
Ella H. — Cut and Blow — So hungover. Hands shaking. A sweating queasy mess. And my face — I know It’s not advisable for a man to wear so much concealer, but what can be done? My eyes look like tires with a bit of red in the middle. Worried that the mask will collapse into a client’s lap. A lovely night with Julian though. No one is so attractive and so present. His lower back is a topography of dreams. Talked of going away.

Tip = $75.00

Monday September 14 2020
Hannah J. — Cut and Blow — Berenson back. Transcendental refinement — paroxysms of admiration for that face. Can’t see any stitch marks and I think she’s getting younger (not me). I would almost cut her hair for free.

Tip = $150.00

Monday September 21 2020
Dr. Susan — Color, Cut and Blow — It’s kind of fun to cut your plastic surgeon’s hair, we exchanged a glance in the mirror akin to the bow during a minuet (now it’s my turn). But a bit unbalanced (she drives a Rolls after all). I’m the upstart stable boy and she the slumming aristocracy. I know it’s not healthy to think such classist things. As my I-Ching once said, “It is not of noble aspect to look upwards with mouth drooling.” Fair enough. Cigarette?

Tip = $125.00

Monday September 28 2020
Sandy L. — Blow — I have known Sandy for soooo long. We had a bump by the wash stations. Being keyed up whilst cutting is pretty great. She gave me a number — I need to keep some around for the days of intestinal endlessness. Everyday ha.

Tip = $150.00

Monday October 5 2020
Carey K. — Color, Cut and Blow — Started smoking again. It’s so bad. I have to practically scrub down to bone to remove the odor. But it never really goes away (very lady Macbeth). No one has complained though. But still. I just love the breaks. Stare into a hedge. Watch a bit wrapper blow by. Look at cloud. Something prevents us from doing this without an occupation. A cigarette makes fertile absent mindedness possible. Whatever — so healthy and so unhealthy.

Tip = $75.00

Monday October 12 2020
Kate U. — Cut and Blow — The thing about cutting a celebrity’s hair is this: it’s horrible. You have to be the oldest of friends and the most reserved of surgeons. Mostly though you have to act as if you really care (who’s the actress now?). It’s abhorrent but keeps the wolves from the door.

Tip = $00.00

Monday October 19 2020
Alex P. — Cut and Blow — Is it wrong to ask a client out? It’s definitely in poor form but “wrong”? I mean we are so well suited and how many paths does one really cross? But what of beautiful Julian?

Tip = $175

Monday October 26 2020
Jenny H. — Color, Cut and Blow — Back from vacation with Julian. He wants to marry. Why do people always need more? Rhetorical. It’s just that I’m in such a good place. Construction is done; Doheny is perfection. I do love him but it’s difficult being a narcissist.

Tip = $100

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