Sentences with phrase «urban grid»

Within suitable urban grids, autonomous vehicles could be the logical solution.
Architectural renderings and aerial views of urban grids enter the work as fragments, losing their real - world specificity and challenging narrow geographic and cultural readings.
The streets of Manhattan form the most famous urban grid in the world — we type in grid - shaped keyboard keys, we digest our digital media through tiny pixellated grids, and play the lottery filling numbers in small grids.
As in White Noise, a sunset dominates the novel's end: the chance alignment of sun and urban grid known as Manhattanhenge.
His compositions — conceived as a series of «cells» or «prisons» connected by «conduits» — strove to reflect not only the city's three - dimensional urban grid, but also the burgeoning flow of information spawned by computer technology.
Born in Los Angeles, Mark Bradford collages pieces of detritus — found billboards, logos, hairdresser's endpapers — scavenged from the streets of southern California, which together snap into abstracted urban grid paintings and other evocative compositions.
«Fearful Symmetry» directly addresses the issue of who creates urban grids, while «Top Table» explores the connections between empire and exploitation.
Hewitt and Young drew visual inspiration from Harlem's dense urban grid, its architectural features and through the study of its street archives.
She started working with architectural renderings and aerial views of urban grids, combining hundreds of them until a point the starting material becomes unrecognisable — these fragments are stripped from their real - world specificity and challenging narrow geographic and cultural readings, becoming a part of something unique and new.
Even though cruising Chicago's urban grid in the back of a taxi cab comes with its share of risks, as does automobile travel in general, that's just part of living in the big city.
LA NY: Aerial Photographs of Los Angeles and New York (Thames & Hudson, November 7, 2017) is a dazzling visual tale of two cities, Los Angeles and New York, photographed from the air, shooting straight down to emphasize the particular patterns of place and how the urban grid adapts to local topography — and, indeed, how the topography is itself adapted to human purposes.
A custom mural by Stanley Felderman makes a bold and colorful statement, with an urban grid counterbalanced by additional curved fluid lines.
RFB's can do everything pumped hydro can do at a similar cost, but RFB's are more responsive, easily move continuously from charging to discharging without a «dead zone», can be sited where needed inside the urban grid instead of running transmission lines hundreds of miles to the mountains, are economical at a smaller scale so are more easily planned.
The house carries an address that has appeared on the Denver tax roles for 87 years, and that exists in the middle of Denver's urban grid.
Inspired by travel, the Urban Gridded Jewelry Collection includes over 120 + major cities from 32 countries around the word.
These five offer a sampler of natural assets, from lush canyons to soothing water features to eye - popping views of the ocean and urban grid.
But Barcelona natives love — and many live in — the quirky residential neighborhood of Gràcia, which fills the urban grid on Diagonal's north side, between Passeig de Gràcia and Passeig de Sant Joan.
It is «urban grids» that I am particularly drawn to.
Modern grids found in cities are generally graphical, and I have been inspired by them, but I also class a cobbled road as an urban grid, which is obviously much more organic.
Ghost Money, a celebrated example of Bradford's map - like mixed - media collage, alludes to both the modernist grid and the urban grid, to the networks of local economies and to networks of public space.
I'm also interested in your work with the urban grid, which conceptualizes the layout of a city.
Ghost Money, a celebrated example of Bradford's characteristic map - like mixed media collage, alludes to both the modernist grid and the urban grid, to the networks of local economies and to networks of public space.
Wilfredo Ortega's color saturated wall installation is inspired by a condensed bird - eye view of the urban grid.
Composed of rectangular shapes and vertical bars, Halley's works evoke a range of geometric network models, from the urban grid to high - rise apartment buildings to electromagnetic conduits.
Developing his own visual lexicon, Halley engages in a play of relationships between what he calls «prisons» and «cells» — composed of rectangular shapes and vertical bars — evocative of geometric networks from the urban grid to high - rise apartment buildings to electromagnetic conduits.
Each piece is a response to the concept of the urban grid — the framework of streets, buildings, paving stones and indeed tiles, that shapes the cities around us — and the ways in which these grids are transformed by the movement of people over time.
In his work, Mack creates intricate compositions that echo aspects of movement and the urban grid, while Hudson's works evoke the topographic — mapping devastation and rejuvenation.
Life in late - capitalist culture, according to Halley's own critical writing, has been inscribed and circumscribed by geometric networks: think of the urban grid, the office tower, the high - rise apartment building, the correctional institution, the parking lot.
The models for the [wheat grass] «walkways» suggest a weaving through and loosening of the urban grid and the notion of growing, nurturing and adaptive bio structures redirects our concepts of the static, authoritarian sterility of the built urban environment.
The density of the urban grid appears in drawings by Simon Fowler, paintings by Vivien Abrams Collens and Ben Boothby (pictured here), and photo collage by Diana Cooper.
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