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Shedding the Shell

by Eduardo McIntosh
Shedding the Shell
Eduardo McIntosh
Eduardo McIntosh
Received his Master in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University, New York where he was awarded the Kinne Travelling Fellowship Award and the Excellence in Design Award.
He is currently a Senior Designer at Populous, where he has being responsible for the designs of Olympique Lyonnaise Stadium, AEK Athens Stadium, Lyon Arena, Sochi Olympic Stadium and numerous sports and master planning projects in the Middle East and Russia. Eduardo’s work has been published in several architecture and design journals and books from Europe, Asia and the US, and he has won first prizes and distinctions in half a dozeninternational competitions. Many of these award winning schemes have been exhibited in the US and Europe.
His current interests revolve around the hyper-characterization of architectural production, the denunciation of institutions of control, the questions posed by re imagining the organic as inorganic and vice versa, and the possibility of separating the human (animal) flesh from the human (spiritual) soul.
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About the design
Quoting from Nietzsche’s Beyond good and Evil: “Even the body within which individuals treat each other as equals ... will have to be an incarnate will to power, it will strive to grow, spread, seize, become predominant—not from any morality or immorality but because it is living and because life simply is will to power.” Shedding The Shell assumes that we all are driven by the will to power and that the lofty ideals of the “magnanimous human spirit”: equality, justice, freedom, etc are in practical terms absent from us, for we are not human spirits, we are flesh and bone. Shedding the Shell represents the separation of the human spirit from its organic vessel: The separation of soul from flesh.
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from: Rossana Cappiello

Gilding the lilly. Mess

from: dom

Cardboard

from: mel

very different artistic but the CHAIR itself has not been changed at all. would maybe use it is i had a BIG modern house but it has not been made much more fntional than it already is. it is a really new fresh idea i would probaby put fflowers in those pots exciting and can hold a persons attention just fiddling and finding out what the design is about

from: Maria

Truly a work of a mad man. Where on earth did he invisage puting this monstrosity Not in my house.

from: Roger Bannister Jr.