WEEK IN REVIEW

ON VIEW: THE RADICAL ARCHITECTURAL DRAWINGS OF LEBBEUS WOODS

the drawings of late visionary architect lebbeus woods are currently on view at friedman benda's los angeles gallery. the show brings together three building projects that illustrate woods’s sweeping and radical vision of what architecture could be. designboom spoke with jennifer olshin, partner of friedman benda and curator of the exhibition, to find out more about the late architect's lasting impact. ‘the notion of architecture as a method with which to uncover and reorder society for the common good, runs throughout,’ olshin says. read our conversation in full here, and discover more recent interviews here.

WHAT DOES A CACTUS SOUND LIKE?

using wires, data, and his custom-built sound machine, audiovisual artist love hultén brings out the inner tunes of cacti. haunting, eerie, and at times, playful, the thorny plants' sounds emerge from a small device that translates biodata from organic material into MIDI sounds.‘it’s not magic and the plants are not composing, it’s simply biofeedback creating true organic randomness,’ the artist says.

MEET GHOSTWRITER, THE TYPEWRITER THAT TYPES BACK

arvind sanjeev has made a vintage 'brother' typewriter type back with the use of artificial intelligence (AI). powered by open AI’s GPT-3 language model, the 'ghostwriter' responds to any prompt entered by its users with an original phrase. see more submissions by our readers here, and find out how to upload your own project here.

the weekly is an inside review curated by sofia lekka angelopoulou.