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LE CORBUSIER
Stool, 1956/59
Oak wood
43.5 x 33 x 25.5 cm
Pavillon du Brésil, University of Paris
"the first badges were made by eric austin of kensington
CND, using white clay with the symbol painted black.
again there was a conscious symbolism.
they were distributed with a note explaining that in the
event of a nuclear war, these fired pottery badges
would be among the few human artifacts to survive
the nuclear inferno."
Jean Prouvé
Montage et démontage
Le Pavillon 6x6
via galerie patrick seguin 20c furniture and architecture
happy b day hippoblog
"Kinberg was stopped by police while demonstrating the bicycle for the television interview. His bicycle is a high-tech graffiti writer, using chalk to print anti-Bush political messages sent by people via the internet. Apparently there was a question of whether or not the sprayed messages were a defacement of property.
When Kinberg showed the police sergeant how the bicycle used a non-permanent spray chalk, the sergeant seemed to agree that it wasn't defacement, at which point Kinberg asked, "am I free to go?" After conferring about it, officers decided to call superiors, then came back moments later to place Kinberg under arrest and confiscate the bicycle.
Kinberg cooperated fully with the officers as he was being handcuffed, only asking, "can I ask what I'm being arrested for?" to which no one provided an answer. As of 11:00 PM Saturday evening, he was still in custody without being charged with anything."
greenspace
"LONDON - Many countries routinely shield historic buildings from the scourge of philistine developers by listing them as part of their national heritage. But in Britain, where three grades of protection of buildings already exist, a fourth, more radical, category has been proposed: Grade X, to be attributed to buildings that deserve to be torn down."
"Australian engineers have created an electricity generator fuelled by decomposing bananas, and hope to build a full size fruit-fired power station."
theres got to be a punchline in there someplace
howard meyer dallas modernist architect
via cosmicool (dfw googie)
principles of enclosure
from canadian architectures architectural science forum
scroll past those sicko birthday songs and enjoy the corporate music
messing with perfection
architonic design museum
greenspan on the housing-bubble
tout puissant konono No.1
>>sound warning<<
george nelson daybed 1949 - manufactured by herman miller
"dont you know all the cool kids are living in washing machines now?"
The U.S. entertainment giant went to a South African court on Tuesday seeking to set aside an order which holds some 240 of its most famous trademarks -- including Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck -- hostage to the outcome of a multi-million dollar lawsuit over the copyright to the song "The Lion Sleeps Tonight."
Lawyers for the family of the song's original composer, South African migrant worker Solomon Linda, have sued Walt Disney in Pretoria for infringement of copyright to the song, one of Africa's most famous melodies.
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The kit house on Sherier Place was, by definition, not unique. The plans and materials were ordered from a Sears catalogue, and a plumber named Jesse Baltimore put the pieces together in 1926 near the trolley line that ran through the Palisades."
"You couldn't walk down that staircase in jeans," she said. "You'd need to be wearing a Mainbocher dress."
"Alles ist Architektur"—“Everything is Architecture.”(1) Of all the architectural manifestos to come out of the 1960s, this is the wildest. Partly verbal, mostly pictorial, it was just under 1,000 words long and brought together over ninety images. Fast and short, the publication meant to pack a punch and send readers reeling. It did.(2) The time was April 1968. The place was the Viennese architecture magazine Bau.(3) The author/editor/artist/ architect/graphic designer was Hans Hollein.
“Alles” is usually read as a call for the complete dissolution of architecture.(4) Written at a time when conceptual artists were advocating what Lucy Lippard called the dematerialization of the art object in search of something more fundamental,(5) Hollein’s manifesto can be seen as the equivalent for architecture. His approach combined what might be termed conceptual architecture with cyberart. In April ’68, of course, the Information Age was just beginning to dawn on the architectural horizon, digital technology still belonged to a remote and mysterious world, and the only other person musing about the potential role of the new media in the field was Christopher Alexander, who had published his Notes on the Synthesis of Form four years earlier.(6) But Hollein’s approach was closer to artists’ than to Alexander’s.
Hollein had been one of the earliest importers into architectural thinking of Marshall McLuhan’s epoch-making 1962 Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man, the first book to herald the Information Age and attempt to predict the profound impact it would have on traditional verbal culture.(7) Hollein’s manifesto is primarily an attempt to imagine what this age meant for architecture. He was fascinated with the artistic potentials of the new electronic media. One of his schemes at the time, in fact, was to replace the University of Vienna with a television set—an inkling of what today is called “distance learning” but also, more generally, of cyberspace. As opposed to Walter Benjamin, who had been adverse to the age of mechanical reproduction, Hollein was eager to embrace the age of digital reproduction. In the optimistic ’60s, his manifesto was the first to oppose a novel architectural e-topian alternative to the conventional, tired mainstream architectural practices of the day, dominated by the conservative, formalist architects like Philip Johnson, Walter Gropius, Edward Durell Stone, and Minoru Yamasaki.
haus resor
out bid on these two
transportable enviornments
the eduardo catalano house raleigh nc
camper's queen mosquito net
pop up bugnet room
black thai style mosquito nets
safe rooms
this ones going out to gamer sally
move over growing up gotti, it's entourage
Orbit by Eero Koivisto for OFFECCT
via totem via vz
Wolfson Trailer House, Pleasant Valley, N.Y. Ben Schnall, photographer, [between 1949-1950]. 1 photographic print : b&w ; 17 x 24 cm. Marcel Breuer papers, 1920-1986. Archives of American Art.
A Constructive Madness
"Whether the Lewis project went sadly wrong or brilliantly right is debatable. The film asserts that the commission served as a valuable incubator for Gehry's evolving vision. Instead of expressing ideas through a private house, as Mies did with his iconic glass Farnsworth House, Gehry incorporated his concepts into public and commercial projects."
hygiene pods
jones partners pro/con
wm stout architectural book seller
little steven garage essay
siva vaidhyanathan the anarchist in the library
clifford ross R1 900 megapixel digital camera
waiting for the end of the world
tumbleweed tiny house company
fat freddy says
translucent concrete
dogpoint cabin < vinalhaven < fox islands < maine
brian turner overdrive
rat rod
Cameron Sinclair The Bob Geldof of architecture
if cribs is here, then growing up gotti is here.
Sidney Morgenbesser anecdotes
architecture's journal
The Schlemiel as Metaphor
The History and Development of Yiddish
unbuilt nyc