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Last Stop for Long-Haul Containers
By JULIE V. IOVINE
LOS ANGELES
DEVELOPERS take note: nesting nomads could be a trend to track.
Two sure-footed front-runners are Jennifer Siegal and Richard Carlson. She is an architect who specializes in buildings on wheels and keeps an Airstream trailer parked in Marfa, Tex., as a getaway. He lives in four old shipping containers in downtown Los Angeles that she transformed into a sleek modern glass house. There is even an indoor lap pool made, naturally, of a shipping container sunk into the floor.
Mr. Carlson, 51, is a developer, most notably of the Brewery, a former Pabst Blue Ribbon building that he upgraded in 1981 into live-and-work lofts for artists and other creative types.
Ms. Siegal, 37, dropped by six years ago to admire his collection of shipping containers strewn around the 20-acre Brewery site. The 40-foot steel and aluminum shipping crates, she said, are "the building blocks of the construction industry." She is out to prove that they are also ideal for a new kind of homemaking.
Marcel Duchamp's Impossible Bed and Other "Not" Readymade Objects: A Possible Route of Influence From Art To Science / Part I
RHONDA ROLAND SHEARER
Hans Urich Obrist / Marjetica Potrc
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in the CAUSE of ARCHITECTURE
On Autonomy and the Avant-Garde
How is art to operate in conditions that openly reify and dissolve the traditional values of art?
"Now, Christopher (A Pattern Language) Alexander's iconoclastic reputation is likely to grow some more. This spring, he finally completed his four-volume, 2,150-page magnum opus: "The Nature of Order: An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe." After laboring over it for 27 years, Mr. Alexander had a falling out with his editors at Oxford University Press and is now publishing the work himself through his Center for Environmental Structure, a nonprofit organization in Berkeley dedicated to promoting his ideas."
THE MAD MATTER
20 West 22nd Street, Studio 1501; 243-2593
"People come to Mad Matter for the immaculate mats alone, although you can also get a solid framing job here. "Most serious frame shops won't be bothered with mere mats, because there's no money in it," says proprietor Ron Yourkowski, "but they're very important in keeping the artwork away from the glass, and creating a space where your eye can rest." Struggling photographers stop here, then procure cheap frames elsewhere; young collectors swear by the archival framing jobs. A 16-inch-by-20-inch mat might cost $20, or $200 if it's gold-beveled and covered in fabric."
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