This book is published to accompany the Hylozoic Series: Sibyl installation at the 18th Biennale of Sydney; Cockatoo Island; Sydney; Australia; 2012. The series of projects shown within this book explore a new generation of responsive spaces. The immersive environments of the Hylozoic Series invite viewers to raise fundamental questions about how architecture might behave in the future. Might future buildings begin to know and care about us? Might they start; in primitive ways; to become alive? Responding to the movement of visitors; ripples of vibration; glowing light; and whispering sound move throughout the immersive layers of these spaces. Floating overhead; many hundreds of thousands of custom-made components spread out into diffuse; translucent clouds.The Hylozoic environments can sense and interact with viewers; and they contain chemical systems that act like a primitive metabolism; processing and exchanging material with the environment. Projects illustrated within this book have developed by Canadian artist and architect Philip Beesley and collaborators between 2010 and 2012; following the Hylozoic Ground installation at the 2010 Venice Biennale for Architecture. These installations are located in Enghien-les-Bains; Madrid; Salt Lake City; Toronto; Rotterdam; Sydney; and Wellington.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. TediousBy JohnAlthough for a while able to hold my interest; it was not long before this work became; for me; rambling; tedious; and without real form. Rather than delivering on the titles promise of an "artistic duel"; the book came across as just another outlet for the art critics variegated opinions on the two artists(and other artists) Renaissance undertakings. Too much harping on Leonards and Michelangelos supposed homosexual proclivities and too little substantive development of the supposed theme (per the title) of this book.9 of 10 people found the following review helpful. Lots of potential but...By CustomerThe story is dangled before you: Michelangelo vs. Leonardo da Vinci in a head-to-head "paint-off". I managed to struggle about halfway through it before losing interest. The book mires its way through too much detail and repeats itself (particularly about a reported argument Michelangelo and Leonardo had in a town square in Florence). I may have had higher hopes for this storyline but it just didnt pan out for me. I never even got to the actual painting contest; or what happened in the end; thanks to the "too-much-detail" formula...0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Well done Johathan JonesBy zbrushputs the reader right in the middle of high renaissance and the characters involved
