the other side of the lower case "a" frame

Tar-House

A structure to celebrate "all things tar"
commission by the Cameron Art Museum, Wilmington NC
The Tar House site

Barbed Wire Bear Gets a Roof

Jonas Lindberg returned in December after dropping off his homeless weaved barbed wire bear. With a little Sisal twine(2500 ft) and the sticks lying around we gave it the beginning of its roof

Food Dryer

Human Scale Sun Oven House with Rocket Stove

This little in progress structure is a collaboration with Stephan Hren
More about the Rocket Stove Building process HERE

Wood working Studio

New structure built with Kalwalls given to me by Aaron Davis and Melissa Dubbins, salvaged from the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

The Chair in picture was built for the Show : Out of Order

Arctic Talk in Beacon NY Saturday December 12th

city made of waste

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVlOWZfaat0&feature=player_embedded

Carrie Dashow's Archive of Lost Thought

An ongoing project regarding the creation of archive space for lost and buried thoughts.

many more pictures of the new structure here:

and of the process here

Neighbor Ted's Shed

the new bridge(on the back of an old maple)

Stitch Britch Fork House Museum

A new museum is now open in Riverhead Long Island down the street from the Flanders Giant Duck
Ready for the residence of the 2 forks to fill with their forked goodness.
Note Andrea Cote, the curator of the Found Show's
Equalateral Triangle Rock Collection.







This project was realized for Art Sites in Riverhead Long Island, Where the north and South Fork Meets

Henry Hudson Mutiny Memeorial Drive-Thru Kiosk

2009 Byrdcliffe Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition
June 13 – October 12, 2009

16 Hudson Valley architects have designed and constructed “memorials” to Henry Hudson who never received a proper burial because his body was lost at sea after his crew mutinied. The outdoor installations are constructed at the historic Byrdcliffe Arts Colony on Upper Byrdcliffe Road, Woodstock.

http://www.woodstockguild.org/ahoy/

Crotch Rocket(of the trees)

Me and Christopher Robbins threw this one up the other day, awaiting the hammock and netting.

architectural Cribbage Synopsis

Exploring alternatives to the gallery system
Time Out NY April 16th, 2009

LINK

As many of our favorite glass-fronted white cubes scuttle their Chelsea operations, pressured by exorbitant rents and stagnant sales, it’s a great time to take a harder look at those individuals and institutions harnessing their ambitions to unconventional structures and spaces less affected by the slump, as these ways of “thinking outside the box” are proving to have staying power. Whether art spliced with sustainable city planning or a call for artists to build their own structures that operate as ad hoc museums, the below projects are related in their relative freedom from or flaunting of contemporary market concerns.

“Unbuilt Roads”
e-flux, 41 Essex St between Grand and Hester Sts (212-619-3356). Subway: F, V to Lower East Side–Second Ave. A gallery presentation of the 1997 book project by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Guy Tortosa, this show offers the unrealized proposals of 107 artists (Louis Bourgeois, Robert Rauschenberg, Jenny Holzer, the Chapman Bros., etc.) in blueprint pages spanning the gallery interior. Though it’s installed in a conventional white-walled context (e-flux’s new LES space), experiencing the show means entering the speculative environs generated by some of art’s more ambitious thinkers—there is a wonderful freedom in the fact that these vaulting ambitions are completely unrestrained by material tethers.

“Vertical Gardens”
Exit Art Underground, 475 Tenth Ave between 36th and 37th Sts (212-966-7745). Subway: A, C, E to 34th St. Through May 23. The third in an Exit Art series, SEA (Social Environmental Aesthetics), this show brings architects and artists together to present existing vertical farms, urban gardens and green roof projects, as well as speculations on a future of more sustainable urban planning—visions with a deliciously sci-fi effect. Free lectures on April 21 and 22, and an indoor composting workshop, are detailed here.

Matt Bua, “Architectural Cribbage”
Ongoing. Matt Bua’s “Architectural Cribbage” amounts to a platform for empowering people to define their own architectural surroundings, free from the normalizing strictures of building code. Through an ongoing open call, Bua along with Max Goldfarb organized a clearinghouse of hundreds of visionary architectural drawings ( available online at www.drawingbuilding.org, which serve as potential designs for 12-by-12-foot structures built at Bua’s woodsy Catskills site, “b-home”). Artists are encouraged to install their own personal collections of odds, ends and artworks inside their visionary structures—an upheaval of gallery and real-estate conventions alike.—Brian Zegeer

BLDG BLOG - crib notes

Geoff Manaugh's thoughts on Cribs to Cribbage

Infantospatialism, or: adventures in crib design

CRIBS by Matt Bua is a "Kidpspace exhibition" at this sprawling, industrial-warehouse-turned-modern-art-museum in northwestern Massachusetts.
While CRIBS itself features "an overloaded crib complete with hanging mobiles, recorded 'lullabies,' and the bars that keep the infant safe," the exhibition's second part, ...To CRIBBAGE, is a kind of spatial escape act: the crib has come alive and is climbing out a nearby window: "To escape the chaos of the cluttered future that encroaches on it, the crib must breech the gallery walls, pouring itself down on the museum's entrance below."
Child-sized visitors can, in turn, crawl inside it: "This piece of crib can be entered outside the museum to experience the collaborative 'building game' Bua calls Architectural Cribbage, a game in which he encourages others to start constructing their own small-scale visionary spaces."
The dinosaur spine-like spaces created by this apparently sentient crib-structure – it's Lebbeus Woods meets Lincoln Logs by way of vertebrate biology – would seem rather nightmarish from a child's perspective, I'd imagine, but there's also a spatial honesty to that. After all, one of the earliest architectural spaces that a modern human being experiences is a small, enclosed space, locked behind bars – so cribs aren't necessarily reassuringly womb-like environments.
In fact, I don't mean to show up 100 years late to the child-rearing game here, but surely there has been some architectural writing about the formative psychological influence that such cribs might have?
At the very least, this sounds like an amazing article for Volume magazine: Jeffrey Inaba and Benedict Clouette visit the world's largest crib designers and manufacturers – in Holland, the States, Canada, Japan – and, amidst on-the-spot New Yorker-style reportage direct from the factory floors (the milling machines, the workers, the design team and their tables full of Macs), they show multiple photographs of different crib spaces. Dimension, color, material choice, layout. It's the crib as primordial space research.
Pair this, then, with a series of short interviews with development psychologists – and even neurophysicians who have taken research into spatial perception and the infant brain into uncharted realms – and you're talking National Magazine Award, baby! Damn. I'd read that.
Matt Bua's CRIBS is on display at MASS MoCA till September 7, 2009.

sauna with face

the half free morel- found on the drive way

Jesse and Suzzane's Day and a half "house

cribs to cribbage(outdoor crib extension)

http://www.massmoca.org/event_details.php?id=463

interior and paint job and Chandelier:Jesse Bercowetz

Sauna in progress

Almost completed 3 story, Dug in Sauna.
Wood stove fired


Photo Credit: Stephen Hren

Form for the filling, design your piece here

Gravity Shower

The "Orange Wolf" of Rachel Lowther now resides at b-Home

For more about Rachel click here