Singapore Design Awards _ 2016
Together with Designers Michael Young of Michael Young Ltd, Naoto Fuskasawa of Naoto Fukasawa Design, Priscilla Tsu-Jyen Shunmugam, Hans Tan and…
Liquid Modernity
In this book, Bauman examines how we have moved away from a 'heavy' and 'solid', hardware-focused modernity to a 'light' and 'liquid', software-based…
Wilderness Downtown
Our research often leads us to question place, continuity and change … This little video does so as well.
Whole Earth Catalog
The Whole Earth Catalog was a cultural touchstone of the 1960s and 1970s. The iconic cover image of the Earth viewed from space made it one of the…
The Restoration Economy
The Restoration Economy describes a huge, fast-growing new growth frontier for entrepreneurs, investors, & organizational leaders, not to mention…
Robert Irwin
Robert W. Irwin (born September 12, 1928) is an American installation artist who has explored perception and the conditional in art, often through…
#instagram update from Compasses World
American architect and designer, he works between California and Milan. His multidisciplinary approach has lead him to range from landscape urbanism,…
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
News,Environmental,Favorite Reads
The game changing and vital text on what makes a city work, focusing on the street and public space, is a must read. A direct and fundamentally…
This Changes Everything
Academic,Environmental,Favorite Reads
Forget everything you think you know about global warming. It’s not about carbon – it’s about capitalism. The good news is that we can seize this…
Conversazione con Tim Power
This Conversation between Tim Power and Ivana Riggi, conducted in Italian on the 16th of April 2011, discusses various aspects of the practice of…
Michael Heizer
As long as you’re going to make a sculpture, why not make one that competes with a 747, or the Empire State Building, or the Golden Gate Bridge?…
David Report
Tim Power has been an active blogger at the David Report since it’s inception in 2006. David Report is an influential blog and online magazine that…
The Hidden City
Talks,News,Activities,Academic
The Hidden City is a project drawing from the narrative tradition of Palermo and focusing on one of the singular aspects of Manifesta 12, the…
California Plants
California Plants is an essential resource for outdoor enthusiasts. This definitive guide features more than 500 species, along with detailed…
Transient Places, Interstitial Space – an Interview with Moby
A new Book by Moby, know best as a musician, exposes his sensibility to territory and the transient relationships between us and the places we…
CSU_Florence Architecture Symposium
Invited guest lecturer Tim Power presented the works of TP/A in the Symposium ’30 years of Teaching and Research in International Architecture’ at…
Wolfgang Laib
News,Inspiration,Environmental
Since the mid-1970s, Laib (German, b. 1950) has been producing sculptures and installations marked by a serene presence and a reductive beauty. These…
Troublemakers
Troublemakers unearths the history of land art in the tumultuous late 1960s and early 1970s. The film features a cadre of renegade New York artists…
L’Industria del Design tra Digitale e Internazionalizzazione
On 26 June 2018, Tim Power was invited to attend a conference titled "L'industria del design tra digitale e internazionalizzazione".
Shaker Furniture Rail
The Shakers' dedication to hard work and perfection has resulted in a unique range of architecture, furniture and handicraft styles. They designed…
Avalance
Avalanche was a New York–based art magazine founded and edited by Willoughby Sharp and Liza Béar from 1970 to 1976. The magazine was unique in its…
Palazzo Abatellis Palermo
Writing,Activities,Academic,Favorite Reads
This book, published for the occasion of Manifesta 12 and the collateral event 'The Hidden City', exposes the forgotten stories, events and details…
Casa Azul in Mexico City
Other than Casa Gilardi, Arch. Power had also visited La Casa Azul (The Blue House), which was the house of the famous Mexican artists Diego Rivera…
Amate l’Architettura
Era il 1957 quando questa “piccola architettura da tasca”, scritta e plasmata da Gio Ponti in ogni suo dettaglio iconografico e tipografico, venne…
Trick Mirror
In her new book of essays, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion, Tolentino writes about how social media shapes identity, public discourse and…
This is Not a Drill
Academic,Environmental,Favorite Reads
Now or never, we need to be radical. We need to rise up. And we need to rebel.
Donald Judd
Donald Clarence Judd (June 3, 1928 – February 12, 1994) was an American artist associated with minimalism (a term he nonetheless stridently…
Tim Power at UDesign Conference UDEM – Monterrey, Mexico
Tim Power presented recent Tim Power Architects studio work and research in a multimedia presentation entitled ‘From the Spoon to the City … to the…
WorkPlace 3.0
The WorkPlace Environment, where the majority of adults pass more than half of our wakening lives, is undergoing a new wave of notable…
Architecture Days _ Florence
In a lecture entitled 'Halfway to Infinity' Tim Power presents the work of TP/A, passing though the connections of scale between Design,…
Tim Power lectures at ENSCI _ Les Ateliers
Talks,News,Activities,Academic
On January 20th, 2011 Tim Power lectured to a Course of Masters students at the renowned French industrial Design School ‘ENSCI – Les Ateliers’ in…
Speed and Politics
With this book Paul Virilio inaugurated the new science whose object of study is the "dromocratic" revolution. First to use the concept of speed as a…
Tim Power and the Chair That Doesn’t Exist
For the launch of his new website TP/A, the American architect, based in Milan, Tim Power introduces Hole.
The Green New Deal: Shaping a Public Imagination
News,Inspiration,Environmental
When climate change is the focus of both fiction and nonfiction, dystopia tends to rule. A notable exception is the prize-winning work of Kim Stanley…
K
News,Inspiration,Environmental
Titled succinctly with the capital letter “K,” this exhibition is to be understood as a story, not unlike a parable, about the “darkest concerns of…
Gordon Matta-Clark
Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-1978) is one of the most influential artists of the 1970s, whose work has continued to be a noted influence of both…
Singapore Design Awards _ 2019
Together with Designers Janine Wunder, Keiji Takeuchi, Brandon Gien, Hans Tan and other illustrious member of the international design community, Tim…
Oluce
Founded in 1945, Oluce is the oldest Italian design company in the illumination sector still in operation today. The design qualities of the lamps…
Whatever Happened to Analogue Architecture
Books about architecture used to be rather straightforward and were not that numerous. Historical writing had few, if any illustrations and…
No More Play
Favorite Reads,News,Inspiration,Academic
The work of TP/A … our work … concurrent to our research and design, explores the ability of Architecture, Objects, Services, Landscape Design, etc.…
The Superstudio Tapes
Tim Power, director of TP/A, worked with Superstudio for 2 years on the late 1980's. His experience with Superstudio ( 1986-1987 ) and Ettore…
Ecotopia
News,Environmental,Favorite Reads
Ecotopia: The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston is a utopian novel by Ernest Callenbach, published in 1975. The society described in the book…
Maria Del Camino
With his project ‘Maria del Camino’, Architect Bruce Tomb furthers his research and personal love affair with all things American. In Bruce’s own…
All Things Come To Those Who Wait _ 2016
All Things Come To Those Who Wait 1(dated) A patient seeker will be satisfied in due time; patience is a virtue. Usage notes •This version of the…
Carlo Scarpa. L’Arte di Esporre
Il nome di Carlo Scarpa (1906-1978) è intrinsecamente legato alla storia dell'arte, al gusto e alla museografia del XX secolo, tanto che negli anni…
Design Boost
Talks,News,Activities,Environmental
Design Boost envisions a holistic approach as a condition for sustainable design. To fulfil this vision the belief is in upgrading design competence…
Casa Gilardi _ Luis Barragán _ Mexico City
This summer, Arch. Power had the honour to visit the extraordinary Casa Gilardi designed by the prestigious Mexican architect Luis Barragán in Mexico…
Design Boost _ Interview with Tim Power
… Over the span of the past half-decade or so, Tim Power Architects has consciously enlarged the focus of their research and production from…
Ettore Sottsass _ Early Years
Ettore Sottsass (14 September 1917 – 31 December 2007) was an Italian architect and designer during the 20th century.
Serial / Portable Classic
Inspiration,Journal,Favorite Reads
Portable Classic. Ancient Greece to Modern Europe (Venice, May 9–September 13) is an exhibition curated by Salvatore Settis and designed by OMA for…
5th International Interior Architecture Symposium
Activities,Environmental,Talks
In a lecture entitled 'Halfway to Infinity', Tim Power presents the work of TP/A, passing thought the connections of scale between Design,…
Being Bejing
The planetary trajectory of increased urbanization in the third millennium is transforming the ways in which the we inhabit our territory, our…
A Pattern Language
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction is a 1977 book on architecture, urban design, and community livability. It was authored by…
Center for Land Use Interpretation
Inspiration,Academic,Environmental
The mission statement of the CLUI is to "increase and diffuse knowledge about how the nation's lands are apportioned, utilized, and perceived."[3]…
The Hidden Life of Trees
Beyond the life sustaining qualities that trees and plants supply the planet via the cyclical process of photosynthesis, trees have a secret life of…
The Medium is the Message
The Medium is the Massage is a unique study of human communication in the twentieth century, published in Penguin Modern Classics Marshall McLuhan is…
Critical Path
Critical Path is a book written by US author and inventor R. Buckminster Fuller with the assistance of Kiyoshi Kuromiya. First published in 1981, it…
Sol Lewitt _ Between the Lines _ La Fondazione Carriero in Milano
One decade after the death of Sol LeWitt (Hartford, 1928 – New York, 2007), Between the Lines aims to offer a new perspective on the American…
Street Food
Traditional cultures understood the fragile nature of our Earth without technology, but modern culture was able to do so only with distance, scale…
George Condo Interview : The Way I Think
In this video, recorded in his New York-studio, the iconic artist shares his life-long love of drawing and thoughts on his artistic expression, which…
Hands On
A conversation with Jerszy Seymour, Stephen Burks and Yoichi Nakamuta
Progettare l’Eccellenza (w/ R. Koolhaas)
Last night Rem Koolhaas, founder of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, opened the series of events scheduled for the Workshop on ‘Management…
Singapore Design Week
Talks,News,Activities,Academic
On March 14th, 2014, Tim Power spoke on Design, Interiors, Architecture, and Territory. Tim was invited by Singaplural, the official event organizer,…
The Society of the Spectacle
Guy Debord’s (1931–1994) best-known work, The Society of the Spectacle (1967), is a polemical and prescient indictment of our image-saturated…
Bodies in Space _ Nike Fuori Salone _ 2011
With this sub-title, ‘Bodies in Space’, one may indeed expect the lead in picture to segue into a dissertation on ‘New Situationalism’, of a renewed…
MUJI – Laboratory for Living – Enjoy ! ( ) Energy
With admirable resolve and a sincere desire to change the planet for the better, from the onset of their existence the Japanese company Muji has…
Walter De Maria
Walter De Maria’s six-decade career made lasting and profound contributions to contemporary art. A vanguard force within four major twentieth-century…
The Entreprenurial State
Debunking the myth of a laggard State at odds with a dynamic private sector, this book reveals in case study after case study that in fact the…
POWER _ Infrastructure in America
POWER challenges participants to think about how infrastructure relates to life across a series of intersecting concerns, including democratic…
Beware of Google’s (Urban) Intentions
In partnering with local governments to create infrastructure, Alphabet says it is only trying to help. Local governments shouldn’t believe it.
Compasses Turns Ten
Talks,News,Activities,Academic
Arch. Tim Power was invited as a special guest for an event organised by Compasses during Milano Design Week 2018.
Italy: The New Domestic Landscape
Italy, The New Domestic Landscape is the show that changed the world of Design, and this is the book that brought that change to the world. Italy,…
Compasses Turns Ten
Arch. Tim Power was invited as a special guest for an event organised by Compasses during Milano Design Week 2018.
Olafur Eliasson
Blue and Orange and Grey to Purple movie Watercolour and pencil on paper 51,4 x 61 cm Photographer: Jean Vong
The City, Our Greatest Invention
Ideally our cities become exciting, sexy, and profitable places to live, play, and work – that’s the most important part. When people have no…
Understanding Design
An Article and Interview with Tim Power in Bravacasa Indonesia focusing on the unique approach of TP/A, in a discussion covering Design, Interiors,…