Greek home

Architects: decaARCHITECTURE
Location: Antiparos, Greece
Project Team: Alexandros Vaitsos, Carlos Loperena, Elena Zabeli, Kyle Gudsell, Katerina Chryssanthopoulou
Owner: Oliaros AE (Antiparos Design Projects)
Structural Engineers: KYMA / Manos Kyriazis
Mechanical Engineers: TEKEM / George Kavoulakos
Contractor: Kataskevastiki Topometriki Parou ABETE / Nikos Kaggelis
Landscape Designers: Doxiadis+ / Thomas Doxiadis
Project Area: 237 sqm
Project Year: 2008

Ettiene Leopold Trouvelot

Trouvelot made a living as an artist, painting mostly portraits, but he had an amateur interest in entomology. His main interest was in identifying native silkworms that might be used for silk production. (L. Trouvelot(1867) The American Silk Worm. American Naturalist, Vol. 1, No. 1., pp.30-38) The exact reasons or circumstances are unknown, but in the late 1860's he returned from a trip to France with some gypsy moth egg masses. He was apparently culturing them on trees in back of his house when some of the larvae escaped. Trouvelot understood the potential magnitude of this accident and notified local entomologists but no action was taken.

After this accident, Trouvelot apparently lost interest in entomology and became interested in Astronomy. He became famous for his illustrations of astronomical details of the sun and of Venus and was eventually given a faculty position at Harvard University in Astronomy. A crater on the moon was named in honor of Trouvelot and he won the French Academy's Valz prize for his astronomical research.

In 1882 Trouvelot returned to live in France; the timing of this move coincided with the appearance of the first gypsy moth outbreak on his street. Trouvelot Died in 1895.

As the outbreak on Trouvelot's street continued to grow in size, residents of the Boston area became increasingly alarmed about the gypsy moth problem. In 1889 the Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture began a campaign to eradicate the gypsy moth. The methods used during the program ranged from manual removal of egg masses, burning infested forests and application of primitive insecticides. Despite the expenditure of considerable money and effort, the gypsy moth infestation continued to expand in size and by 1900 the effort to eradicate this insect was abandoned.

During the 1980s, severe outbreaks in the Northeast resulted in vast tracts of defoliation, particularly in oak-dominated forests. Chris Bactel, Director of Collections and Grounds at the Morton Arboretum, recalls driving for fifty miles through a forested area near Johnstown, Pennsylvania, in 1986 and seeing not a single leaf except those on black walnut and tulip trees, two of the few species distasteful to gypsy moth caterpillars.

Garden Room

architects: visiondivision
location: stockholm
design team: anders berensson & ulf mejergren
construction year: 2009
project area: 55m2

2CV

florian pugnaire is part of the group show 'reset' at the
fondation d'entreprise ricard for contemporary art, paris
from january 19th to february 20th, 2010.

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Cumbre de Copenague

lkka halso: restoration
galerie wagner + partner, berlin
january 15th to march 6th, 2010

¿Por qué luchar por el pan si se puede combatir el cambio climático? Necesitamos estaciones como las que estudiabamos en el colegio: Primavera, verano, otoño e invierno que duren exactamente lo mismo, que la primavera sea verde, el verano caluroso, el otoño marrón y el invierno frio. Las variaciones propias de otras latitudes más tropicales no se tienen en consideración debido a su escaso nivel de desarrollo industrial e intelectual que les hace merecedores de un clima sin a penas variaciones anuales, ¿Porqué los paises ricos y poderosos se encuentran por encima del trópico de cancer? a excepción de Suráfrica y Australia que confirman mi teoría, ya que somos culpables de las variaciones climáticas del planeta, si nos ponemos a solucionarlo, por lo menos nos corresponde comprar el modelo climático deseado, uno que sea conservador de las buenas virtudes morales, con navidades nevadas y veranos con biquini.