AUTO ATMOSPHERES

&

ARTIFICIAL ECOLOGIES

alex haw - atmos

ISEA 2010 (RUHR) : DORTMUND

24 08 10

“MAKE MUD, NOT WAR”

WET ARCHITECTURES

GASEOUS ARCHITECTURES

LUMINOUS ARCHITECTURES

ACTIVATED ARCHITECTURES

ECONOMIC ARCHITECTURES

CLIMATIC ARCHITECTURES

MEDIA ARCHITECTURES

“When two Englishmen meet, they first talk about weather”

Samuel Johnson, British lexicographer and literary critic, The Idler, 1758

John Constable

Cloud Study

1822 Oil on paper laid on board 12 x 19 1/4 in (30.5 x 49 cm) Courtauld Institute Galleries, London

Joseph Mallord William Turner

Rain, Steam and Speed

c. 1844 Oil on canvas 35 3/4 x 48 in. (90.8 x 121.9 cm) National Gallery, London

Pedestrian membrane

Photovoltaic sphere

Inhabitable sphere

Hot air

Inflated sphere

Cloudraising – everyone has a stake