| Description |
1 online resource (1 streaming audio file (34 minutes)): sound, color + transcript, images of works |
| Contents |
Professor Neil Spiller--The Island Of Vessels, Half There, Half Not There. Site Plan, Fordwich, Kent, England, 2008, Neil Spiller--Baronesses Filaments. The Filaments Caress The Wheelbarrow's Bulb Under The Disapproving--Composite Eye Of A Wasp, 2008, Neil Spiller. The Baroness Is The Matriarch Of The Island, A Desiring Sculpture, She Senses All Her Flock With Virtual Tendrils Called 'Filaments'--The Glade Of The Chicken Computer, 2009, Neil Spiller. One Of The Input Machines On The Island - A 'Chicken Computer' Contained In A Small Red & White Pavilion--Flames Of Desire & Hot Eggs -- Inside The 'Chicken Computer', 2009, Neil Spiller. This Is An Analogue Computer - Its Computing Is Determined By Chickens Pecking Themselves, Passing Things Or Each Other--Baronesses Filaments In Full Frenzy, 2009, Neil Spiller. The Filaments Keep The Baroness In Touch With All Around Her--Holding Down The Hose - Before The Dawn, 2010, Neil Spiller. Sketch Scheme For A Roof Garden On The Island Of Vessels--The Great Scheme Of Things, 2010, Neil Spiller. One Of The Interaction Diagrams For Much Of The Island Of Vessels Scheme--Four Little Girls Are We - Inside The Professor's Shed, 2011, Neil Spiller. All Gardens Have A Shed & In It Are Stored Spares, Tools & Fertilisers |
| Summary |
Professor Neil Spiller is dean of the school of architecture at Greenwich University. Before moving to Greenwich in September 2010, he was vice-dean at the Bartlett school of architecture, where he founded AVATAR, the Advanced Virtual and Technological Architecture Research Group. In this talk, Spiller describes his 14-year long Communicating Vessels project - an architectural paracosm set on an island in Kent. His designs for the island - which include a walled garden in memory of the American theorist Lebbeus Woods - draw on the work of the Surrealists, science fiction and technological advances such as nanotechnology and augmented reality |
| Event |
The talk was recorded at the Building Centre, London |
| Notes |
Title from publisher's website (viewed April 15, 2021) |
| Subject |
Architects.
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Architecture -- Aesthetics.
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| Form |
Streaming audio
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| Author |
Spiller, Neil, narrator.
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