EARLY YEARS PROJECT #8: BE YOUR OWN ISLAND
Category: ART
ARCHITECTURE IN MICRO-SCALE
Church of Light - Tadao Ando
TEXT & PHOTO: AESTHEBRICK
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These creations began with a simple question: how can childhood LEGO bricks be transformed into architectural works? The first piece was inspired by a rectangular brick with a cross-shaped hole at its center. That single element instantly evoked the image of Tadao Ando’s Church of Light, and we knew it had to be part of that architectural model. After completing the initial piece, we continued developing more works, focusing primarily on iconic architecture from around the world. More recently, however, we have turned our attention to Thai designs. Our two latest models are based on the Thailand Pavilion by A49 for Expo 2025 in Osaka and the Raw Line Pavilion by Looklen Architects for ASA Expo 2025. In both cases, we aimed to recreate the structures at the smallest possible scale while still clearly communicating their architectural identity. Form and proportion were our guiding principles, though we also simplified certain elements to accommodate the inherent limitations of LEGO bricks.
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Aesthebrick is a name derived from aesthetics, reflecting our intent to create works that explore beauty in all forms, not limited to architecture, but also encompassing floral arrangements made from LEGO and other creative ventures to come.
A TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE
A TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE AN EXHIBITION THAT EXPLORES THE NON-LINEAR NATURE OF HUMAN MEMORY Read More
SEA OF REFLECTIONS
EXPERIENCE THE UNDERWATER ART EXHIBITION ‘SEA OF REFLECTIONS’ BY MACKCHA AT SEA LIFE BANGKOK OCEAN WORLD
CHINA DAILY
EXPERIENCE YAOWARAT IN BLACK AND WHITE THROUGH THE ‘CHINA DAILY’ EXHIBITION BY NIWAT KOONPHOL
THE BRUTALIST
INVITE EVERY OUTSIDERS TO DISCUSS THE FILM THAT ATTEMPTS TO PRESENT AN ‘OUTSIDER’ PERSPECTIVE IN THE BRUTALIST
URGENCY OF EXISTENCE
KADER ATTIA PRESENTS THE PAIN OF WAR AND HIS PROCESS OF REPARATION THROUGH ART IN THE EXHIBITION ‘URGENCY OF EXISTENCE’
PERFECT DAYS
THE OUTER WORLD AND THE INNER WORLD: A DAY OF EXQUISITE PERFECTION IN PERFECT DAYS
THE 7TH BANGKOK EXPERIMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL
EXPLORE THE BOUNDLESS WORLD OF EXPERIMENTAL FILM AT THE 7TH BANGKOK EXPERIMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL (BEFF7) UNDER THE THEME ‘NOWHERE SOMEWHERE,’ WHICH DELVES INTO THE BLURRED BOUNDARY STATES OF VARIOUS MATTERS
SUNDAY SKETCHES
- Sunday Sketch (Book) © Christoph Niemann
TEXT & PHOTO: CHRISTOPH NIEMANN
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When I work on my Sunday Sketches, it’s never about a sudden inspired spark. I pick a random object, and then I just stare at it. I look at it from different angles, play with the light (usually just by moving my desk lamp). And I try to open my mind as wide as possible to see if a peculiar angle reminds me of a familiar shape.
More often than not, this yields… nothing.
And when it does, I doubt it’s because I have a special gift for making these visual connections. It’s because sometimes I have the stamina to keep on staring when a saner person would do the reasonable thing and get on with their life instead.
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Christoph Niemann (*1970) is an artist, author, and illustrator. His work regularly appears on the covers of The New Yorker, National Geographic, and The New York Times. Niemann’s works have been shown in many museum exhibitions worldwide, including Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe (Hamburg, Germany), Museum of Contemporary Art (Bucharest, Romania), Cartoonmuseum (Basel, Switzerland), Galerie d’Italia (Vicenza, Italy), Chemie Museum (Tainan, Taiwan), MoCA Museum (Shanghai), MoMA (New York, USA).