BLDGBLOG Book Launch, originally uploaded by moleitau.
Last night I went to the launch of the Geoff Manaugh’s BLDG BLOG book at the Architectural Association in London (I’m somewhere stuck in the back in the above photo). Not something I usually do because functions like that can, in my opinion, become quite stuffy and a bit pretentious (I’m not a big fan of gallery opening nights). But this intrigued me, in part because Warren was raving about it (and since we have mutual friends I though I’d drop by and say Hello to him), and anything that combines design, Sci-Fi and speculative thinking gets my vote.
Talking in your book about buildings causing earthquakes because of their weight and location is interesting. Extrapolating that fact into ideas of how to weaponize that, or force shut fault lines by clever urban planning is taking it to a whole other level. And thats just one tiny bit of a book filled with all kinds of amazing ideas of building a science fiction habitat.
So yeah, in a very roundabout way I’m saying you should buy the book (and also because its a very nicely designed printed object).
July 8th, 2009
bingo!