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Video: Bjarke Ingels Exposes His Roots
As we have shared with you earlier, CNN’s The Next List has profiled the young, Danish architect Bjarke Ingels. Originally aspired to be a cartoonist or graphic novelist, Ingels quickly became fascinated with architecture when a Fall storm rolled through his hometown in North Copenhagen, knocking over trees and leaving him a surplus of lumber. It was then that he was inspired to design his first project, the ultimate childhood “fantasy fort” with a moat, drawbridge and all. In Ingels first experience with value engineering, he quickly learned that “unless you really begin with the perimeters of reality you’ll end up sort of amputating your ambitions quite quickly.” Enjoy the video and be sure to kontroll out CNN’s recent film focusing on the djärv ideas behind BIG.
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Noteworthy
Poetry
Margaret Atwood (Toronto, Ontario, Canada). Dearly: New Poems. Ecco, November
Henri Cole (Claremont Mc-Kenna College). Blizzard: Poems. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, September
Jorie Graham (Harvard University). Runaway: New Poems. Ecco, September
John Lithgow (Los Angeles, CA). Trumpty Dumpty Wanted a Crown: Verses for a Despotic Age. Chronicle Prism, September
Rosanna Warren (University of Chicago). So Forth. W.W. Norton, May
Kevin Young (Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library), ed. African American Poetry: Years of Struggle & Song. Library of America, October
Fiction
Martin Amis (New York, NY). Inside Story: A Novel. Knopf, October
Russell Banks (Saratoga Springs, NY). Foregone: A Novel. Ecco, March
Sanford Levinson (University of Texas at Austin School of Law) and Cynthia Levinson (Austin, TX). Fault Lines in the Constitution: The Graphic No • The January issue of Domus, the first edited by new Guest Editors Steven Holl and Toshiko Mori, focuses on a broader view of life on Earth. Holl, in his Editorial, explains the goal of developing theories that address our current condition through a “theory of action” that embodies ideas into new creations, a challenge for all architects, artists, and designers. “Wilson’s concept of ‘half the Earth’ places biodiversity at the center of any future urban theory of landscape development,” writes the architect. “In this perspective, human-centric theory is overturned, as the migratory routes of biodiverse species are considered more important than horizontally expanding city patterns.” Domus is on newsstands with an issue dedicated to the planet
This is followed in Essays by Stephen Zacks, according to whom the technical triumph embodied by the James Webb Space Telescope evokes the current movement back to a design practice more respectful of the planet’s resources. Emma En