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Folklorist Alan Lomax's Trove Goes to Library
By Linton Weeks
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, March 24, 2004; Page C01
The lifework of the late legendary American folklorist Alan Lomax has been acquired by the American Folklife Center in the Library of Congress.
"I think it's the jewel in the crown of the collections here," says Peggy A. Bulger, director of the folklife center, "because it spans 70 years. It's almost an entire century of documentation by one person who was an incredible collector and who had an ear for excellence."
The Lomax collection, she says, offers a vast sampler of "the very best music, dance and stories from 1930s to present day." The library expects scholars to benefit from it for eons to come.
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"But Zaha Hadid is also an awful choice for the Pritzker. She is well known for her inability to translate her ideas into realistic projects, let alone finished buildings--of which she has a mere six to her name. And her recognition comes at a time when a host of more deserving architects stand in the wings for the award--architects who have built far more but are far less beloved by the avant-garde. Her selection, no doubt influenced by her distinction as the most prominent woman in a field dominated by men, represents a fatal debasement of an award purportedly about rewarding excellence, not political correctness or trendiness. Worst of all, it threatens to further widen the rift between ideas and practice that is slowly undermining architecture's ability to contribute to society."
hadid joins the world of the international architectural establishment yet ignored by fellow brittish
reflecting absence...
latest win - should i keep the christmas shots in the piece ?
rummy
skYsPace
Turrell likens the spare interior to Plato's cave, in which ''we realize that we perceive the outside reality incompletely. We think we are seeing the whole, but in fact we are only seeing part. We think we exist independently of nature, but we are very interrelated. We even influence the colors that we see.''
13 nyc federal row houses proposed as landmarks
space colonies
"The Crystal Palace comes close, very close, to being the single most influential piece of architecture ever built in Britain. I think we must concede that Inigo Jones's Banqueting House in Whitehall of 1622, introducing Renaissance classicism to the nation, had a greater impact over time. But in the modern world, the Crystal Palace beats everything else. 1851, when it was first built, was Year Zero for what eventually came to be known as high-tech. Look at buildings such as Richard Rogers' Lloyd's of London HQ, and there the Crystal Palace lives on. But the most astonishing thing about it was that they had to go and build it twice."
garyR50's container and SurfShack drawings on SketchUp
casa rufus
concrete monstre
and then there were three
khoshnevis extruded house
via tom moody
the dukes of hazzard...
penzys spices herbs seasonings
scenes from a mall
"dumb as a painter" a quick survey indicates that the term was originally coined in french. anyone ?
junkspace
"What makes Tokyo a continually compelling yet utterly baffling urban experience? Shows on either side of town highlight the practical, aesthetic and theoretical conditions of this disaster-prone city."
part two
parole by words
Kisho Kurokawa
Architecture in the World of Image
Woodcut Prints
"I dwell on Libeskind here because his project is close to my interests, but also because he exposes most clearly the intellectual tendencies of current public building on a grand scale. And the ROM project shows, more than any other current major building, how monumental-conceptual architecture shares the problem of evanescent novelty with conceptual art. Indeed, conceptual art is an important enabling condition of the current architectural scene. Without the pioneering slyness and precedent of clever self-promotion in the Seth Seigelraub (sic) stable of 1960s New York post-Pop artists, today’s architectural highwire artists would probably not exist or function in the global limelight. In a new book, art historian Alexander Alberro usefully unearths the roots of conceptualism in American art. Seigelraub, an accomplished impresario, successfully packaged Lawrence Weiner, Dan Graham, Sol LeWitt, Douglas Huebler, Carl Andre, Robert Barry, and Joseph Kosuth, and sold them as a new art-world brand.Their group exhibitions at Windham College in upstate New York and at Manhattan venues, from Seigelraub’s downtown galleries to the School of Visual Arts, established new norms of intellectual playfulness in an art scene at once moribund and confused."
Monumental/Conceptual Architecture, The Art of Being Too Clever By Half, by Mark Kingwell
conservation resources international
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hollywood diaries amatha gerelle
70's invasion
architecture w/o architects
Chicken Head Men! With live music from the Fat Possum blues caravan--Paul 'Wine' Jones, T-Model Ford, and Kenny Brown--and a visit from Townes Van Zandt biographer John Kruth
modeling the wtc / via architecture week
virtual walk-thru of the yet-to-be-built
Let's talk about the Freedom Tower for a moment. There has been criticism about the wind turbines that have been proposed for the top of the building: that they won’t work, and that they will produce a ridiculous amount of vibrations. How feasible are the turbines? Could they actually produce 20% of the building’s electricity?
We have researched wind turbines in the past, and it has always brought up the vibration issue, the safety issue, and the bird mortality issue. The WTC is right in the flyaway of migrating birds, and the original WTC was the worst violator in terms of the amount of birds that were killed flying into the buildings at night. They’d either hit it directly or, if it was foggy, get confused and exhaust themselves. So maintenance crews would come out at 5 o’clock in the morning to clean the dead birds off the plaza.
bent ply
St. Petersberg is in the second stage of a program to renovate itskhrushchyovki, the five-story mass-produced housing projects built during the Khrushchev era in the 1950s and 1960s. Judging by the slow rate of progress and the lack of funding for the program, more recent buildings - those built between the 1960s and the 1970s - will be in need of repairs before the first are rebuilt.
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