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This month’s issue (actually this was back in october '08) of Metropolis features a multifaceted look at design activists in Public-Interest Architecture. A discussion with Bryan Bell, founder of Design Corps and author of Expanding Architecture: Design as Activism is included as a sidebar in From the Notebook of Bryan Bell , but the conversation with the architect—which we present to you here— included more information on his influences, Rural Studio, why he doesn’t enter architecture competitions, and how he includes the community is his work.

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5 great 45's




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TOH goes to BKLN


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Saddam's hometown unveils statue dedicated to man who threw shoe at President Bush

via hullabaloo


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container home kc


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MBSA

note window / door panels
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mars rover still ticking


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fine wooden motor scooters by carlos alberto

thx lisa
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Texas oil fields, and the oil barons they created, have had an outsized influence on modern America. Bryan Burroughs, author of The Big Rich, tells us about the rise and fall of Texas oil fortunes.

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The point may soon come when there are more people who want to write books than there are people who want to read them.


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test


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shipping container puma store

via lavadera
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bkln ny shipping container snowboard ramp


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sea / sky photos of jonathan quinn


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found a link for garage hangover going back through older posts at dull tool dim bulb blog. good on the outsider stuff. loads of fun just digging around over there.


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brandeis univ closing art museum selling collection due to economy


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BRONTOSAURUS FSBO


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wyllie water tower @ SpaceInvading


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The image of the destroyed Einstein Tower fascinates for its ability to recall Mendelsohn's original sketches for the building. As in the photograph from 1945, the sketches reveal the lenticular dome atop the tower as a broken and incomplete form. The ground seems incomplete and upturned in the sketch, much in the way it would appear in the second photograph. Is it possible that the building, when damaged and eviscerated, speaks more to the architect's vision than a completed building? The form of the Einstein Tower has withstood damage, but it is a form that has become reduced to its constituent lines of force. Strangely, the bomb blast, with its incredible displacement of pressure, earth, and energy, makes the building more legible. But is this because we are filling in the blanks, completing the forms? Are we visualizing a completed dome atop the building even when we look at the image of the damaged Einstein Tower?

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And somewhere between Lou Reed, Electricity, Marshal McLuhan, and Andy Warhol - I forget exactly the circumstances - I drew a comparison between the translucent walls of the Johnson Glass House, and the metallic-reflective walls of Warhol's silver Factory. They seemed like related opposites: spaces that were very similar, famous for the material surface of their walls that were both materials which both fascinated modern architecture. Both had qualities that embody modernity - transparency, reflection, flat and smooth, seamless, almost textureless, technological, industrialised, cold-to-the-touch and factory-formed into sheets from molten state. The Glass House and the Factory are like opposing twins.

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sesquipedalis

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fantastic

dull tool dim bulb


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dropped bra observation

@elseplace
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Admiral’s Row is a series of dilapidated yet gorgeous Second Empire-style mansions once used to house officers at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Some of them date back to the Civil War. Left to decay since the 1970’s, these beautiful buildings are in desperate need of rehabilitation.
thx lisa
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“I really wanted to fight the used-car-salesman stigma that real estate bloggers have.”

realworld


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