AN ARCHITECT AND AN ELEPHANT ON A JOURNEY OF SELF-DISCOVERY THROUGH THAILAND IS THE PREMISE OF THE STORY BEHIND POP AYE, THE DEBUT FEATURE FILM BY SINGAPOREAN FILM DIRECTOR KIRSTEN TAN CURRENTLY ON ITS WAY FOR SCREENING AT THE RENOWNED SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL IN 2017. ART4D SPOKE WITH TAN TO LEARN MORE ABOUT HER CREATIVE PROCESS AND HOW POP AYE CAME TO BE.
ART4D SPOKE WITH ONE OF TAIWAN’S MOST PROMINENT DESIGNERS OF BUSINESS AND INNOVATION STRATEGIES FOR THE GLOBAL COMPUTING AND MOBILE INDUSTRIES ABOUT HOW HUAREN CULTURE COMES INTO PLAY WITHIN THE FIELD.
SINGAPORE-BASED ARCHITECT LING HAO IS INTERESTED IN THE WAYS IN WHICH BOTH PEOPLE, TIME AND NATURE MOVE THROUGH, WITHIN AND WITH ARCHITECTURE. ART4D CAUGHT UP WITH HAO TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE STUDIO’S PHILOSOPHY AND HOW AN ADMIRATION FOR THE EVERYDAY CAN BE TRANSLATED INTO A SPACE.
WITH A VISION AIMED AT OFFERING FREELANCERS, TECHNOLOGISTS AND CREATIVES A SPACE TO COME TOGETHER AND CONNECT, APW SET WITHIN AN INDUSTRIAL PRINTING FACILITY IN BANGSAR, MALAYSIA HOPES TO FUNCTION AS A CREATIVE CAMPUS FIT TO ACCELERATE CREATIVE POTENTIAL.
ATTA GALLERY, THAILAND’S FIRST GALLERY SPACE SPECIALIZING IN CONTEMPORARY ART JEWELRY TURNS SIX WITH AN EXHIBITION OF WORKS DEPICTING JUST HOW FAR THEY’VE COME.
A NEW DOCUMENTARY SHORT BY DESIGNER NUANKHANIT PHROMCHANYA LOOKING AT THE LIFE AND WORKS OF THAI ARTIST CHAVALIT SOEMPRUNGSUK BRINGS THE STRUGGLES FACED BY CREATIVE INDIVIDUALS, WHETHER PAST OR PRESENT, INTO FOCUS.
THERE ARE TWO GREAT DIFFICULTIES WHEN IT COMES TO BEING A LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT IN THAILAND. FIRST, IS CONVINCING CLIENTS NOT TO REMOVE TREES FROM ONE SITE IN ORDER TO INCORPORATE THEM INTO ANOTHER, AND SECOND, WORKING IN A MANNER THAT ALLOWS FOR THE STUDIO TO MAINTAIN THEIR INITIAL VISION.
SANITAS STUDIO DELVES INTO THE REALM OF BOTH LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE AND FINE ART, DRAWING FROM ELEMENTS SUCH AS SOCIAL CONTEXT, CULTURAL NORMS AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR TO DEVELOP WORKS THAT EXPLORE THE VARIOUS POSSIBILITIES OF INTERACTION AND FORMS OF DIALOG THAT CAN BE FACILITATED BETWEEN PEOPLE AND THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT.
IF’S WORK WILL EXPAND YOUR UNDERSTANDING OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE INTO SOMETHING WIDER, THROUGH NOT ONLY THEIR CONSIDERATION OF STRUCTURE BUT ALSO THE SENSE OF THE USER, AND UTILIZATION OF FAR FROM TYPICAL CONDO AND GARDEN SITES TO THAT OF AGRICULTURAL FIELDS.
WORKING ACROSS VARIOUS DESIGN DISCIPLINES, ARCHIVE STUDIO IS A DESIGN OFFICE THAT PRACTICES ARCHITECTURE, LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE, INTERIOR, EXHIBITION AND PRODUCT DESIGN, RESULTING IN A MIXED COMPILATION OF WORKS THAT, WHILE WIDE-RANGING IN SCALE AND MATERIAL, SHARE A COMMON STARTING POINT THROUGH THEIR INTENTION TO SYNCHRONIZE SOCIAL, ECONOMICAL AND CONTEXTUAL CONDITIONS INTO DESIGN OUTCOMES.
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