Revista Wallpaper 11/21. Diseño, Arquitectura. En Inglés

Revista Wallpaper Noviembre/2021

ISSN: 1364-4475

Descripción

Wallpaper*, is a publication focusing on design and architecture, fashion, travel, art, and lifestyle. The magazine was launched in London in 1996 by Canadian journalist Tyler Brûlé and Austrian journalist Alexander Geringer. It is now owned by Future plc after its acquisition of TI Media.

Wallpaper *, es una publicación centrada en el diseño y la arquitectura, la moda, los viajes, el arte y el estilo de vida. La revista fue lanzada en Londres en 1996 por el periodista canadiense Tyler Brûlé y el periodista austriaco Alexander Geringer

Contenido

Visions of a life Nine years ago, when Cao Fei first featured in the pages of Wallpaper*, she was already at the forefront of technology, but relatively unknown among an audience that wasn’t familiar with the Chinese art scene. Commissioned by our then guest editor, Ole Scheeren, to share her impressions of Beijing, Cao riffed on her RMB City project (2008-11) a fictional Chinese city constructed in the online virtual world Second Life, an experiment in avant garde urban planning to create a dynamic, dreamlike collage of architecture and landscape, including four of Scheeren’s designs. As the architect told us at the time, ‘Cao Fei has long intrigued me with her depiction of the new China through scenes of fantastic perpetual construction and a virtual world in which everything