Sinking American Dream

Artist Mike Boucher built a typical American suburban home for the Venice Biennale art exhibition, but when a floating pontoon meant to carry the house failed midstream, the house sunk

Watch on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9Cb9BzQxus

Bizarre Landscapes

Site of Reversible Destiny, Yoro Arakawa + Madeline Gins: Architectural Experiments
"Do you want to live in an apartment or house that can help you determine the nature and extent of interactions between you and the universe? Procedural architecture is an architecture of precision and unending invention. Works of procedural architecture function as well-tooled works of equipment that help the body organize its thoughts and actions to a greater degree than had previously been thought possible.  Set up to put fruitfully into question all that goes on within them, (works of procedural architecture) steer their residents to examine minutely the actions they take and to reconsider and, as it were, recalibrate their equanimity and self-possession, causing them to doubt themselves long enough to find a way to reinvent themselves."

Procedural Architecture : rules of the game

1. Resemblance and reversal

                   reorganize the senses so that the horizon is not in a predicted place

                   treat the landscape as sculptural rather than pictorial

                   use the method of "simulation" rather than "imitation"

2. Architectural "landing site"

                   indicates the positional relation of the 'person' resting 'there'; that is to say, a table placed                
                   there holds a position as distinct from anything else in that room

images at : http://figure-ground.com/reversible_destiny/