I almost stumbled over these rubber tubes strewn across a major arterial road, which are attached to unmarked boxes locked to trees along the median. These are most likely means of tracking and quantifying traffic and car counts. I used to think they could track speed and thus were part of police surveillance. At this... Continue Reading →
Tonight PennDesign had a show to celebrate all the work done over the past school year. The centerpiece was a 'menagerie', netting which had sheets of paper hung from it to catch projected images. It provided an interesting volume for the image to inhabit, as opposed to the usual flat surface. Kudos to Eric Wong... Continue Reading →
Tree eats metal bar.
Urban settings offer a lot of opportunities, with one exception being campfires. Glad to have the chance to buck that trend every now and again.
A quick goodbye to the mess and chaos of studio.
More photos from a trip to Algiers last year. These photos were taken at the Bardo Museum, a recently rehabilitated Turkish Villa housing artifacts from prehistory to antiquity to Ottoman times. During my visit most exhibits and artifacts were still in storage, as interior renovations had only recently finished.
Back in May of 2013 I spent a few weeks in Algeria and got to explore Algiers before flying home. Yesterday I showed a few photographs of the Sacred Heart Cathedral. Here are the photographs I took from the interior. Apologies for the low quality. The structure and textures are amazing. I don't know if... Continue Reading →
A few photos from a trip last year to Algeria, today of the Cathedrale du Sacre-Coeur d'Alger. It was planned and designed before Algeria gained independence from France, but was completed after to a country whose Catholic inhabitants were part of one of the greatest mass exoduses in human history. Notice in the first photograph that... Continue Reading →
Studio wraps up in a week of a half. One thing I am trying to keep in mind is the small vignette of life in Dhaka afforded to me during my week there. It isn't enough, it never is, but every reminder of the reality on the ground there helps. Here is a matter of... Continue Reading →
Another very long week in studio. Here are a few photos from two years back, from a project attempting to map how I read a book and turned a page. This work led to the reading chair mentioned in previous posts.
Adam Achrati 