about

2AeM is a cooperative design effort composed of the 3 young Midwestern-sprung, spread-the world-out, out-and-out Architecture student-architects: nicholas m. reiter, Jessie Wilcox and Peter Nguyen. The team base was originally Milwaukee, WI but since has become a mobile abstraction or a state of mind. 2AeM is sometimes physical, sometimes sober, partially virtual, usually vocal, and all-the-time IN-it.

We are track jumpers, demons, villains and observing you right now. Design is the New and so are the Stakes.

Friday, November 25, 2011

UCLA Project 3 so far.

BentSpace:
A project based on bending plywood....right... I threw material study out the window for the start of the project. Instead I took a stab at A-periodic tiling and this is where i'm at.
1[D]Aperiodics:v1
The system lends itself to make pockets of space.
2[D]Aperiodics:v1
these pockets have different variables to create new atmospheres within one system. [not shown... :(] But what is shown here is refinement on how these tiles come together. No more Crazy Angles connections!!!


[D]Aperiodics
so far...is this what they want? I have no idea :P.

Monday, November 21, 2011

#occupywallstreet

below is a preview of some of the poster art i've been putting together. 
monday's rally should be epic!

a few more details to polish up and they should be ready to print.

"the status quo has got to go" (2011)



"who are you protecting?!" (2011)



"brutality" (2011)


...more to come.

Sunday, November 20, 2011

#occupywallstreet

some reading for those wanting to know more about what is happening

paul krugman: nytimes
matt taibbi: rolling stone
reinhold martin: design observer
jd sachs: nytimes

data visualized: by the gaurdian


charts, charts, charts


...and this ariticle highlighting the bat signal of the 99% that showed up at the 11.17 rally.  first across the federalist buildings in the financial district [the cops caught wind and coralled everyone marching from folley park across the brooklyn bridge].  it was a much needed inspirational lift at the time... and then to see it occupying the verizon tower facade. remarkable!

Saturday, November 19, 2011

ofuro

Custom Japanese Ofuro by Bath in Wood of Maine, LLC, at CustomMade.com

custom japanese ofuro [bath]
bath made of wood.  so nice.  i soak a while in that.
apparently, baths don't come in endless varieties like shoes.  too bulky to store in warehouses and keep on show room floors means only the strongest [sellling] survive leading a lack of diversity.


this deep cedar bath is an elegantly crafted solution for an applicance that takes up plenty of household real estate.




some other examples of ofuros can be seen through custommade:ofuro.

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

#occupywallstreet


OWS week of actionstudent and laborers. shut the city down.

massive canvassing @GSAPP [just in time for zaha].  this is a call to action.


Monday, November 14, 2011

earth

this video happened to catch my eye walking past a friend's desk!  i could sit and watch this for hours (due to school, i've calculated many minutes, approaching an hour - but best believe i will return again and again to this clip!)


view here.... the embed didn't work for some reason.  but seriously, do yourself a favor. take a break and make on more click!


a camera attached to the outisde of the international space station captures some riduculously amazing imagery of cityscapes illuminating darkness, storm systems dancing across the arc of the horizon, and the most spectacular dance of the aurora borealis i have ever seen!


serious props to ron garan, michael konig and crew!

Friday, November 11, 2011

Saturday, November 5, 2011

Occupy Wall Street Architecture

Occupy Wall Street Architecture
Frederic Levrat – Nov 4 2011

Controlled space

Space is currently defined by a controlling mechanism ofproperty right. Investment companies acquire land through leverage andspeculation, then rent it for a profit to the real user of the space, whiledisenfranchising the community as well as the individual from the most basicright to occupy space.

The main maps we have of the city – such as the Sandbornregister – are black on white definition of property right,only stipulating theowner and its property for insurance purpose on profit on the  increased value of property. There is absolutelyno indication of existence of trees, of community activity, of the density ofhappiness, noise level, social interaction or any human quality. It is a purerepresentation of the controlling power of a few individual over what used tobe public space. Everything is about money and control, about property and the precise/legaldefinition of it.

Questioning these types of boundaries is essential but notentirely a new struggle. The history of the nomads, violently repressed by thesettlers in the North American genocide, the North African Touareg, theaboriginal tribes of Australia is a long history of confrontation between thehoarder of the land for a profit against the actual user of the land. Morerecently, some alternative thinking produced some interesting re-mapping of theurban context, with the French Situationists trying to remap Paris based onsubjective perception of space rather than objective state-issued maps.
We need to rethinkspace in general, and public space in particular.

It is not surprising that the drum circle is the mostcontroversial element of the OWS camp. It challenges the notion of enforceableboundaries. Unlike the physical presence of the occupiers, the sound travelsfree in between the buildings and through the air. The physical bodies areconfronted to metal fences and police forces closing space down at every turn.The police are enforcing every possible law – and many interpretation of it –to claim territory and mostly to deny the freedom of assembly andmovement.  But there are other ways tooccupy the space, to break boundaries, to circumvent the solid edges the powerfuland its legal sub-system has been erecting. An ephemeral occupation of thespace needs to be engineered, with temporary banners, video projection and soundprojection.  We need to rethink our environment, as a flexible and adaptable one, where boundaries are allowingpeople to meet rather than to separate or protect the dominant from the dominated.