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"This fantastic, hovering blob will be Archigram's revenge for its many earlier disappointments, for competition-winning schemes that were never realised. [...] And to me it is Archigram at its best. [...] At last we will have a building worthy of their true spirit, albeit 35 years too late. Of course part of Archigram's potency was its ability to initiate by going beyond what was possible, and some might argue that its ideas and messages were not intended to be built. But I believe the fact that this will be built, after so long, gives credibility to Archigram's mid '60s predictions. The amorphous quality of the form, internally and externally, manages to escape the language of a building type, which was one of the major points of Archigram in the twentieth century." Will Alsop*
"Two European scholarship students of the MAK-Schindler Artists and Architects in Residence Program in Los Angeles initially intended to develop a prototype of a "case study house" for the present in their course of their six-months stay. During their investigations of the case study program, the buildings and the circumstances of their development, Roland Oberhofer and Nicolas Février became aware of the changes that Los Angeles had undergone since they were built. Today's problems are not so much related to the necessity of producing additional residential buildings but rather to urban planning approaches such as the issue of public space for the inhabitants of the metropolis."
otis ball super_karaoke_fun_time_band
ariel bender
hot property
preservation age before beauty
RIP clark byers
smile :)
saul steinbergs assistant
the bottle dump
LINOLEUM
artoleum by forbo flooring of the netherlands
marmorette by armstrong
narndur by tarkett sommer
bungalow manifesto linoleum page
secondhand rose rare and vintage linoleum
spherical granules mars
tom moody on appropriation art
FutureHouse via jetset modern
atomic ranch launch
Simmons Hall dormitory at MIT
..."Holl said his design was inspired by a bath sponge."
"Thomas Pynchon's novel, Gravity's Rainbow, declares an ambition to make physics become metaphysics; Douglas Huebler's work relates to Pynchon's in a vital respect, which is that Huebler seems to want to make the "sociological" achieve an analogous transcendence. By this I mean that Huebler wants to make ways of documenting events stand for a larger paradigm, one that can contain enough of the conditions of experience in the real world to stand as a sort of model for ordinary language itself. In Huebler, sociology—events in the real world—becomes a sort of phenomenological linguistics—language in the real world. This happens via a procedure which in Huebler's recent work, of which Duration Piece #7, 1973, is a useful example, employs a metonymical structure to present an event in the real world, and, by doing so, illustrates the incompleteness—reflexiveness—of ordinary perceptual experience in a way that is newly clear. Huebler's work is about the "deconstruction" of the familiar."
A bearded hippy wearing only his underpants emerges from what appears to be a subterranean concrete bunker. He's followed by a shaggy man in overalls, a topless woman with long hair, and another, and another, like clowns from a Volkswagen. A voiceover informs us that these people are leaving behind an "indescribably large house...with all the possible comforts, and with all the pieces of modern furniture on the market...built following all ancient and modern styles, forming a homogenous and pleasant whole."
The movie, Ceremony, is one of five films (together called Fundamental Acts) that the Italian avant-garde architecture collective Superstudio planned in the early 1970s to communicate their radical vision of an ideal world: one devoid of architecture. This vision is chronicled in
Superstudio: Life Without Objects, an ambitious retrospective of the firm's conceptual work from 1966 to 1978 currently spread across several New York galleries.
Vanity and Validation
Films celebrating the design and construction of projects by celebrity architects are now ubiquitous. But do we actually learn anything from them?
(spoiler: "no")
scrapping noguchi bayfront park miami
whole-town makeover
"You failed! The point is to be uninteresting. But you can have a second chance."
- bob
raiders of the lost...
(06/03 blog story picked up and elaborated on in 03/04 vanity fair magazine)
John Stephen, the fashion designer, who has died aged 69, was "the King of Carnaby Street" in the 1960s, when his clothes, which were worn by members of the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Bee Gees and the Kinks, created a revolution in men's fashion.
greendale the movie with director bernard shakey
hermes 'chaîne d'ancre'
"metaphors rise in harlem sky"
paolo soleri
6 1/2 x 9 inch black and white photograph by Haus - Rucker Co. titled:
Yellow Heart
There is a label on the back reading Yellow Heart, Haus - Rucker - Co. 1968 Model and a Haus - Rucker stamp ( with address ).
"You think you really know me"
- gary wilson
Abstract: Frederick J. Kiesler, born in Cernauti in Romania on September 22 1890, presented Endless Theatre design based on the concept of endless space in 1924, showing his thoughts on non-territoriality of space, which went beyond the modern functionalistic thinking. Being presented through egg-shaped Continuous Construction (1934) and Endless House (1952), his thoughts on The Endless escaped from metaphysical concept of space through Correalism and Biotechnique, and became critical of modern functionalistic concept of space. Following Kiesler, Philip Johnson invited seven deconstructionist architects to the Museum of Modern Art held in New York 1988, which made deconstructionist construction emerge. However, deconstruction of concept of space and non-territoriality of space, both of which are found in deconstructionist construction, date back to the oval structure used by Kiesler in the Endless Theatre in 1924. With continuous curved surface, this structure showed that it could maintain a shape structurally without column or frame. This brought paradigm shift from the conventional thought that floor, wall, ceiling and column, which are structural elements of construction, are primary elements in shaping space. This shift matches to deconstructionist ideas. Egg-shaped curved figure proposed by Kiesler has no corner and its surface is a continued one, showing non-territoriality of space best. This non-territoriality is found equally in the Roof Top Remodeling proposed by Coop Himmelbau, deconstructionist architect. Giving up conventional concept of space, Coop Himmelblau embodied non-territoriality of space in construction by excluding wall, column and roof, in order to bring total liberation from all conventional traditions and customs of construction. This is similar to the concept of the Endless proposed by Kiesler.
Therefore, the methodologies and objectives of this study are to understand the correlationship between Kiesler and deconstructionist non-territorial expression of space through theoretical observation, and identify the correlationship of non-territorial expression of space by analyzing the construction works made by Kiesler and deconstructionists.
revisiting "I didn't want to get involved"
tupperware: the movie
7 x 9 1/2 black and white photograph of:
Yellow Heart
Designed in 1968 by Haus - Rucker - Co.
7 x 9 1/2 inch black and white photograph of:
CLOUD 1
There is a paper attached to the back from Coop Himmelblau reading: Cloud 1 Project for the Gemeinde Wien, Wohnformen der Zukunft, 1968 - 72. Project for Documenta V Mobile pneumatic house. The static building materials are replaced by a pneumatic construction on a movable platform. Architecture becomes variable like clouds. The inflatable sphere 1o m can be stored in a container. It takes 97 minutes to set it up.
NORTON 301 ROKY ERICKSON AND THE ALIENS – DON’T KNOCK THE ROK!
A Teenager In Love/Angel Baby/ You Drive Me Crazy/Stand By Me/Heart-strings/Untitled/What To Do/You’re The One/Bashful Bob/One Last Kiss/Take Good Care Of My Baby/Things That Go Bump In The Night/Wake Up To Rock And Roll/Can’t Be Brought Down/Money Honey/You’re The One/Love Is Strange/ True Love Ways/You’re The One/Our First Kiss/Heartbreak Hotel/Bumble Bee Zombie/Hushabye Twenty three unissued blasts cut at the 1978 warm up sessions for Roky and the Aliens’ EVIL ONE LP! Roky filters his patented howl through a slew of covers ranging from Dion and the Belmonts and Bobby Vee to Elvis and Buddy Holly, not to mention a Bye Bye Birdie show tune! Dig some unheard Roky originals, too! It’s like the Elevators meet King Uszneiwicz at a Martian pajama party! Double LP $13/CD $12
Last night (2/5/04) Dave the Spaz played "Your The One" a Buddy Holly cover. (I think/thought/thunk) he said it was a Norton 45 with guest sideman Waylon Jennings from a live show in Texas from the 70's. What I found at the Norton
site is this new release cd/lp "Dont Knock the Rok!". clarification pending
[A/D] yes, but is it art ?
subgenius
tokers fallingwater rising
bang & olufsen
pet rock
christy's modern links from livemodern
Turf war at ground zero -
The architectural machinations at Ground Zero can be treacherous
"The design as it now stands bears scant resemblance either to Libeskind’s compelling sketches or to Childs’s original concept. It is an unnatural hybrid made up of the work of two architects, each of whom believed he had the right to design the building himself."
- Goldgerg
After Theory Eagleton
whats american about american music