alex haw architecture - 101008 - interactive architecture - media architecture - 211
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Media Architecture: Alex Haw, director of atmos, explains the inspirations behind a selected number of interactive pieces of architecture created at atmos.TRANSCRIPT
“When two Englishmen meet, they first talk about weather”
Samuel Johnson, British lexicographer and literary critic, The Idler, 1758
John Constable
Cloud Study
1822 Oil on paper laid on board 12 x 19 1/4 in (30.5 x 49 cm) Courtauld Institute Galleries, London
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Rain, Steam and Speed
c. 1844 Oil on canvas 35 3/4 x 48 in. (90.8 x 121.9 cm) National Gallery, London
Pedestrian membrane
Photovoltaic sphere
Inhabitable sphere
Hot air
Inflated sphere
Cloudraising – everyone has a stake