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kraus campo
"...a new installation on the roof of the Posner Center dubbed “both a garden-as-sculpture and a sculpture-as-garden,” is a devastating failure. Inaugurated this past Friday, it is surprising that a sculpture as short-sighted as the Campo has been in planning by acclaimed artist Mel Bochner and architect Michael Van Valkenburgh since 2002."
Within 15 years, homebuilders may be living in prefabricated houses made almost entirely from steel, timber, clay, glass, concrete or even cardboard.
wazup doc ?
"I felt social changes would result from the Anthology," Smith explained to Cohen. "I'd been reading Plato's Republic. He's jabbering on about music, how you have to be careful about changing the music because it might upset or destroy the government. Everybody gets out of step. You...may undermine the Empire State Building without knowing it."
Walker Evans
"Untitled" (thinly painted arrow pointing left), ca. 1973/74
Color polaroid photograph, 4 1/4 x 3 1/2 in.
"Elements of the design and construction of the towers, investigators said, certainly played a part in how long the buildings stood. Buildings designed differently - with more robustly protected and spread-out emergency stairwells, for example - engineers said yesterday, might still have resulted in fewer deaths.
But the most severe shortcomings identified at the World Trade Center in the institute's comprehensive review do not pertain to how the buildings were conceived or built. Instead, the failings on Sept. 11 were chiefly found in the response by the New York City Fire and Police Departments, which was hampered by inadequate command, unreliable communications equipment and an overwhelmed dispatching system.
For Leslie E. Robertson, the structural engineer who helped design the twin towers as a young man back in the early 1960's, the latest findings buttress his longstanding assertion that the towers were fundamentally sound. His wife, Saw-Teen See, who is a managing partner at Mr. Robertson's New York design firm, said the report "validates the way we thought the structure would have performed."
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jandek sorry, no hot linking
"Visiting Charles Sheeler's famed portraits of Henry Ford's Rouge complex at the Detroit Institute for Arts the other day, I was struck by how much architecture owes to photography."
your getting warmer warmer, warmer...
tomorrows house from yesterday
"The international space-age craze of the 1960s stirred interest among Finnish architects,
but there was only one Finnish project that can be regarded as a bona fide sample of space-age
architecture: the Futuro house designed by Matti Suuronen. Its design encapsulated the distinctive
themes of 1960s utopian architecture: mobility, increased leisure time and new materials.
This plastic, ellipsoid, portable holiday hideaway represented something totally new in Finnish
architecture. Even by international standards, it is among the most striking samples of utopian
space-age design."
flatpack
Music and Language in Working-Class Culture
LOS ANGELES (Oct. 15) - Burt Reynolds and Willie Nelson are in final negotiations to join Johnny Knoxville, Seann William Scott and Jessica Simpson in the big-screen version of "The Dukes of Hazzard."
Reynolds, most recently in theaters with the hit comedy "Without a Paddle," would play the evil Boss Hogg, a role played in the original 1979-1985 CBS show by the late Sorrell Booke.
Nelson would play Uncle Jesse, stepping in the shoes of the late Denver Pyle. Knoxville and Scott will play his good ol' boy nephews, Luke and Bo Duke, respectively, with Simpson on board as their sexy cousin, Daisy Duke.
Jay Chandrasekhar is directing the Warner Bros. project.
Reynolds' upcoming film include "The Longest Yard," "Cloud Nine" and "Instant Karma." Nelson, better known as a country music legend, has appeared in such films as "Wag the Dog" and "Red-Headed Stranger."
Reuters/Hollywood Reporter
gone to schwarz/segui family reunion in st augustine
"Mr. Kahn, 69, has been a steadfast chronicler of offbeat owner-built shelter: straw and mud houses, solar-powered houses, geodesic domes beloved by hippies (of whom Mr. Kahn was one) and made from chopped-up cars pounded into submission and bent into triangles."
this is the reverse image of an imperfect celluloid negative with 4 hours to go and no bids yet. it looks like an american gothic redux to me. is that splotch too distracting ? i guess it colud be photo shopped out.
The Japanese architect Shigeru Ban and the New York-based architect Dean Maltz have designed the Nomadic Museum, a movable exhibition space with steel cargo containers for walls and columns made of recycled paper tubes. The traveling museum will be transported in its own containers and will arrive at Pier 54 in Manhattan early next year, with a show of 200 large black-and-white photographs by the Canadian-born artist Gregory Colbert called "Ashes and Snow'' (March 5 through June 6; information: ashesandsnow.org) >scarey flash warning!!!<. RAUL A. BARRENECHE for the NYT - see home section currents slide show.
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