18th
July
2000
“Having insisted in various essays on the need of the architect to impose his personality on a project, Koolhaas now wants to expand on this idea. Much of the appeal of the joint effort with Herzog & de Meuron is the opportunity to impose two sets of values simultaneously. Renowned for classically Modernist buildings clad in beautiful ’skins,’ Herzog & de Meuron could be regarded as the antithesis of OMA. This, for Koolhaas, was a compelling reason to collaborate. ‘We want to see if we can combine with two focuses and generate a third one,’ he says.”
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18th
July
2000
“Like most people, I spend far too long explaining the web medium to people who are climbing a steep learning curve. To save my time, I’ve put together the following list of books and sites which communicate the bare essentials to those relatively new to all this.”
posted in Books | Permalink |
18th
July
2000
La Storia/The History “The Alessi company was founded by Giovanni Alessi in 1921 at Omegna, a village on Lake Orta in the foothills of the Alps near Novara. Giovanni was a skilled lathe turner, the last of a long line of craftsmen from the nearby Valle Strona valley. …One of
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18th
July
2000
“Science and Engineering Indicators 2000 is a joint report of the National Science Board and the National Science Foundation. …the report presents trends in U.S. and international research and development funds and alliances, in the S&E workforce, in science and mathematics education, and in public attitudes and understanding of science and engineering. The report also devotes a chapter to the significance of information technologies for science and the daily lives of our citizens.”
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18th
July
2000
“This site contains links to researchers and resources in the field of visual cognition.”
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18th
July
2000
“The suit, which demands declaratory relief at a jury trial, alleges that ‘Razorfish breached the Agreement with IAM.com by delivering wholly inadequate deliverables and services.’ It alleges that some of those breaches include building a site that could not be accessed with version 4.0 of AOL’s software, despite promising a site that could be so accessed; missing almost all delivery deadlines; and creating an interface for IAM’s buy-side tool that was ‘unusable.’”
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18th
July
2000
“Razorfish has a message for IAM.com: Since you don’t like the site we built you, and haven’t finished paying for it, stop using it. In a lawsuit filed in New York’s Supreme Court Monday, the Web designer demanded $500,000 damages and an injunction barring IAM, a talent casting service, from using its own Razorfish-designed site. As reported, IAM last week sued Razorfish in Los Angeles, claiming that its site was faulty and unusable.”
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