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VERB CONNECTION (SP ED.)

Albert FerréThe third issue of Verb boogazine is about the changing status of the city in the electronic era

Albert Ferré The third issue of Verb boogazine is about the changing status of the city in the electronic era. Connection looks at the impact of electronic technology on new forms of urban reality, which are generated by new phenomena that affect all aspects of space and the experience of living in these new urbanisms. Faced with an increased blurring of the distinctions between the physical and the informational dimension of cities, we explore the relation between virtual connections - the effect of digital networks on the spaces and uses of the city - and the persistent role of architecture in creating physical connections between people, programs and uses. Featured works and texts: OMA, Atelier Bow-Wow, AUDC, PLOT. Featuring the Palast der Republik story in Berlin, Chip City by Shinobu Hashimoto and Rients Dijkstra, and Sim City, which contrasts the real city (the product of virtual processes) with virtual cities (created

Verb Matters ( FR ED. )

Albert FerréVerb Matters revisa las posibilidades formales y materiales de la construcción actual.

Albert Ferré Verb Matters revisa las posibilidades formales y materiales de la construcción actual. Obras publicadas de Diller-Scofidio, Jürgen Mayer H., OMA, Toyo Ito, Media Lab, MIT y Metapolis.

Seattle Public Library

OMA/ LMNOMA’s design for the Seattle Public Library–one of the firm’s most heavily anticipated projects to date–begins with a radical rethinking of the very nature of the library.

OMA/LMN OMA's design for the Seattle Public Library--one of the firm's most heavily anticipated projects to date--begins with a radical rethinking of the very nature of the library. If the library exists today as a threatened sanctuary, it has been done in by its own stubborn reliance on one kind of literacy and its consequent blindness to other emerging forms that increasingly dominate our culture, especially the huge efficiencies and pleasures of visual intelligence. Rather than merely package this traditional institution in a new way, OMA has completely reinvented it, transforming it wholeheartedly into a site able to aggressively orchestrate the coexistence of all available technologies for collecting, condensing, distributing, reading, and manipulating information. The library will no longer be loyal to the book... In more architectural terms, the $156 million building has an angular, meshlike glass and metal skin that surrounds a series of floating public spaces: a kid's area

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