Cape Canaveral
The new launch tower at Cape Canaveral, very similar to the one used for the Saturn Five launches. The new heavy lifting rockets and their landing modules appear very similar to their Apollo programme equivalents. Cape Canaveral is wonderful, but increasingly has a greater archeological interest than promise as a place of hope and invention.
Cape Canaveral from Cocoa Beach
It is about a year ago that we were at Cape Canaveral – I posted quite a bit from there at the time. This is a view of some of the larger launch structures from Cocoa Beach
Pamphlet Architecture 34
The cover, taken with a flash.
Pamphlet 34
My copy of Pamphlet Architecture 34 arrived today – very good to see it. The parts we were worried about, such as the balance between the main text and the secondary commentaries has come out well. The colour pages really help bring out the work. Big thanks To Meredith Baber from Princeton Architectural Press who was super-helpful and to Mark Stanley for his design work in setting out the book.
The image is of course the digital file for the cover – I will photograph the real thing when some daylight arrives.
If you want a copy there are a bunch of links a couple of posts back.
Splatter
Splatter
Splatter
A few more examples from Instrument Five where the throw of paint is almost over, or not as articulate as some, but where the splatter coming off the drawing pieces tells different stories.
Splatter
I don’t think I have posted this view of Instrument Five in action before. The throw of paint is almost spent, but the splatter on the backside of the drawing pieces is one of the clearest examples of this series, giving away the range of stories that emerge from the collision between the paint and the drawing pieces. The Paint discusses a certain occupation of the architecture that is modelled int he drawing pieces.
Instrument Eight
Another of the latest instruments, with my drawing in the foreground and Perry Kulper’s behind.
If you want to find out more about this work Pamphlet Architecture No.34 will be released on the 10th of December.
You can get copies from here:
http://www.papress.com/html/book.details.page.tpl?isbn=9781616891732
and here:
In the UK
Instrument Eight
Instrument Eight
Perry Kulper’s drawing and drawing piece is on the right foreground, with his paint catapult in the centre and my drawing behind.
AA Smout Allen Exhibition
Smout Allen
Smout Allen
Smout Allen
Mark Smout, Laura Allen and Geoff Manaugh’s British Exploratory Land Archive exhibition opened at the AA this evening – well worth a visit. Some views of the show.
Nat Chard 