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american sign museum
papress
precis no.14
"Photography and architecture use each other. Photography encounters architecture specifically as a means of representation and dissemination. The architectural manipulates the photographic for its own ambitions. However, the question is not so much of who does who, but rather how each creates and delineates the other?"
samuel mockbee
modern home design
atomic ranch
living small
dieter rams
the queens museum nyc panorama 1" = 100'
Karel Teige :
Functionalist and then some: the first exhibition in the U.S. of a leading Czech modernist illuminates the intellectual landscape of interwar Prague while adding new dimensions to the histories of design, architectural theory and the international style.
Art in America, Dec, 2001, by Joseph Masheck
The Minimum Dwelling
steven holl and jane highstein's oblong voidspace the snow show
roger dean
tectonic culture
giant coffepot moved to safety
people hanging out with duane hansons' janitor sculpture
alison and peter smithsons' 1956 house of the future
"This was the Smithsons' Pop phase. As participants in the famous "This is Tomorrow" exhibition of Pop Art, they adopted the pose of their friend, the artist Richard Hamilton, who urged them to be "Popular, transient, expendable, low cost, mass produced, young, witty, sexy, gimmicky, glamorous, big business". Alison rose to the challenge with her all-plastic house for the Ideal Home Exhibition. She correctly predicted electronic remote controls for television and lighting. And some budget hotels do indeed now have self-cleaning bathrooms as she suggested. But why don't women wear nylon pixie dresses, and why don't men sport combined leggings and shoes?"
from here to modernity
acrophobia
OCAD Ontario College of Art & Design classroom and studio building
the sharp center for design
will alsop mr blobby
"...designs unhumble buildings for humble clients, hits new heights of audacity in Toronto."
canadians astir siting kunstler
when buildings fall down
why buildings fall down
anyone with information regarding this interesting building growing on the lower east side of manhattan, feel free to comment
miami house no. 27
miami house no. 26