"At a moment when the world is facing the world’s largest
refugee and migration crisis since the Second World War, Incoming by
Irish artist and Deutsche Börse Photography Prize winner Richard Mosse deals
with the major humanitarian and political plight of our time, the displacement
of millions due to war, persecution and climate change. With illuminating texts
by Mosse and the philosopher Giorgio Agamben, the 576-page book combines film
stills from the artist’s latest video work made in collaboration with electronic
composer Ben Frost and cinematographer Trevor Tweeten – a haunting and searing
multi-channel film installation, accompanied by a visceral soundtrack. Journeys
made by refugees and migrants across the Middle East, North Africa, and Europe
are captured with a new weapons-grade surveillance technology that can detect
the human body from 30.3km. Blind to skin colour, this camera technology
registers only the contours of relative heat difference within a given scene,
foregrounding the fragile human body’s struggle for survival in hostile
environments."
_da Incoming - Richard Mosse
Barbican Center, London 2017
Pink Floyd performed at the Architectural Association - Student Christmas Carnival party, London, on 16th December 1966. Their first, debut album, would have been recorded in August 1967.
"They hired Pink Floyd to play all night for £150. The
rooms and ceilings were covered with plastic sheet. It was hot and sweaty, but
the music was great and the party went on all night."
Pink Floyd were an English rock band formed in London in 1965. Gaining a following as a psychedelic rock group, they were distinguished for their extended compositions, sonic experimentation, philosophical lyrics and elaborate live shows.
The Piper at the Gates of Dawn is the debut studio album by the Pink Floyd, released 4 August 1967. The only album made under founding member Syd Barrett's leadership, it takes its title from chapter seven of Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows, and was recorded at EMI Studios in London from February to May 1967
- from Wikipedia
Roger Waters @ the Architectural Association
The Pink Floyd @ the Architectural Association
The Pink Floyd @ the Architectural Association
"The Architectural Association became known as the hub of Archigram whose
members became incredibly influential on the AA staff. The AA was revolutionised by the Archigram group … with
its colour, audacity and cheerful disregard of history, tradition and English
good manners. Students such as Nicholas Grimshaw and Piers Gough, who
graduated in 1965 and 1966, respectively, constituting what Peter Cook has
termed the ‘Electric Decade’ at the AA"
Rem Koolhaas was studying at the Architectural Association from 1968 to 1972. His visionary final thesis would have been "Exodus, or the Voluntary Prisoners of Architecture", in which "Like in West Berlin at the time, the Wall becomes here a
condition of freedom by self imprisonment. Voluntarily segregated, people find
shelter within the walls of a prison of metropolitan scale".
The Pink Floyd, Roger Waters, would have released their visionary masterpiece "The Wall" in 1979. The Wall is a rock opera that
explores abandonment and isolation, symbolized by a wall. The songs create an
approximate storyline of events in the life of the protagonist, Pink, a
character based on Syd Barrett as
well as Roger Waters.
Roger Waters and Nick Mason as architecture students at
Regent Street Polytechnic, London, 1963
Actually, Nick Mason, Roger Waters, and Richard Wright met while studying architecture at the Polytechnic in London, now known as the University of Westminster, which served as the band’s first rehearsal space and performance venue in the early 1960s.
In 2012, Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason was awarded
an Honorary Doctor of Letters by the Westminster University - Architecture faculty
Nell'estate del 1969 Michelangelo Antonioni aveva terminato il suo capolavoro, Zabrinskie Point. Mancava la colonna sonora che fosse all'altezza del film. Contattò i Rolling Stones, che rifiutarono, e poi i Doors, ma non gli piacquero.
Alla fine gli portarono una copia di Ummagumma. Antonioni aveva già visto i Pink Flyd dal vivo tre anni prima, insieme a Monica Vitti. Si innamorò subito della traccia "Careful With That Axe, Eugene", tanto che chiese loro di comporre tutta la colonna sonora del film e di registrare una versione di quel brano per il finale del film, quello nel video qui sotto.
Michelangelo Antonioni
Per i Pink Floyd sarebbe stata una collaborazione estremamente frustrante. Antonioni continuava a non essere soddisfatto dei brani che gli venivano proposti e i tempi erano molto ristretti. Alla fine avrebbe selezionato solo tre brani degli 8 registrati dalla band, chiedendo nuovo materiale fino alla fine, fino a poco prima della première del film.
Con alcuni degli scarti, i Pink Floyd avrebbero prodotto The Dark Side of the Moon, nel 1973
"Paimio Sanatorium is a former tuberculosissanatorium in Paimio, Southwest
Finland, designed by Finnish architect Alvar
Aalto. Aalto received the design commission having won the architectural
competition for the project held in 1929. The building was completed in 1933,
and soon after received critical acclaim both in Finland and abroad.
