Art, Design and Architecture

ABSTRAK Indonesia berada pada zona tektonik aktif yang menyebabkan wilayah-wilayahnya rentan terhadap ancaman gempa bumi. Rumah tinggal seringkali menjadi ancaman yang berbahaya saat gempa bumi. Dengan kondisi ini diperlukan sebuah gagasan rumah tinggal yang antisipatif terhadap ancaman gempa bumi. Pulau Jawa yang menyimpan berbagai jenis rumah tradisional perlu dikaji, seberapa mampu peninggalan budaya tersebut adaptif terhadap kondisi tanah Jawa. Penelitian ini berfokus pada kajian seberapa mampu rumah Srotong suku Samin menahan gayagaya yang ditimbulkan oleh gempa bumi. Kemudian mengambil prinsip dasar struktur dan konstruksi rumah Srotong untuk menjadi acuan dalam merancang rumah tinggal sederhana yang tahan terhadap gaya gempa. Pengambilan prinsip struktur rumah Srotong diharapkan mampu diaplikasikan pada desain bangunan rumah tinggal sederhana sehingga mengurangi dampak yang ditimbulkan oleh gempa.

An survey and analysis of a certain style of "whatever" in contemporary art, fashion and architecture. It is a style that goes beyond post-modern appropriation towards a radical "indifference" of materials to each other -- and ultimately to the spectator. It is perhaps the "style" of the new object oriented ontology.

. There is a wonderful letter written by Magritte to the critic Suzi Gablik explaining the genesis of the work: My latest painting began with the question: how to show a glass of water in a painting in such a way that it would not be indifferent? Or whimsical, or arbitrary, or weak -but, allow us to use the word, with genius? (Without false modesty.) I began by drawing many glasses of water, always with a linear mark on the glass. This line, after the 100th or 150th drawing, widened out and finally took the form of an umbrella. The umbrella was then put into the glass, and to conclude, underneath the glass. Which is the exact solution to the initial question: how to paint a glass of water with genius. I then thought that Hegel (another genius) would have been very sensitive to this object which has two opposing functions: at the same time not to admit any water (repelling it) and to admit it (containing it). He would have been delighted, I think, or amused (as on vacation), and I call the painting Hegel's Holiday.

As Australia marks the centenary of World War I, Rex Butler surveys two Brisbane exhibitions and asks if the role of art is to step in where the political and historical analysis of war falls short, allowing us to feel sympathy for one or even both sides.