June 2012
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The Idea of Voice →
Hans Ulrich Obrist’s recent interviews with Dario Fo, Alberto Garutti, Luca Cavalli Sforza and Franco Vaccari offer a departure point for a reflection on the importance of oral tradition. An art report from Milan by Ludovico Centis. (Domus)
May 2012
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A City Rises, Along With Its Hopes →
(The entrance pavilion to the Botanical Garden in Medellín, Colombia, designed by Lorenzo Castro. Paul Smith for The New York Times)
“What sets Medellín apart is the particular strength of its culture of urbanism, which acts now almost like a civic calling card. The city’s new mayor, Aníbal Gaviria, spent an hour describing to me his dreams for burying a congested highway that runs...
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Fronton
(Frontón La Esperanza, Bilbao. Photos by Iker Gil)
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baden-württemberg kunsthandwerk 1964 →
Art handicrafts exhibition poster with artwork by Herbert W. Kapitzki. (via Iain Claridge)
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Subway Systems Obey Emergent, Natural Laws As They... →
The design of subway systems in big cities conforms to certain patterns regardless of where, when, and how they’re built. So where does that leave designers? (Fast Company)
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Fog
Photo by Iker Gil
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Alessandro Mendini interviews Dieter Rams →
On the occasion of the German industrial designer’s 80th birthday on 20 May, Domus turns to the archives to propose a conversation between Rams and Mendini in 1984.(Domus)
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La Concha fence
(Photo by Iker Gil)
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Away
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Ownership | MAS Context + Studio Gang →
A tease of the MAS Context + Studio Gang Architects event a few days ago. Video by Tom Harris and Matt Messner.
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FABERGÉ BIG EGG HUNT by Fourfoursixsix Architects →
Sharing a project sent by Mark Nicol, who was part of this team:
Fourfoursixsix Architects, EOS and Ogle Models teamed up to create a laser-sintered egg for the Fabergé Big Egg Hunt that happened in London this Spring as part of a group of 200 unique eggs produced to raise fund for charities Action for Children and Elephant Family.
Fourfoursixsix’s Daniel Welham points out that...
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Pedro Gadanho: curating is the new criticism →
“Criticism is a matter of getting the critical function of architecture, of how architects reflect on the world, to a wider public while also bringing critical ideas to bear on the discipline.”
Pedro Gadanho, MoMA’s new curator for Contemporary Architecture discusses his program and practice, and expands on his first show, opening in September. An interview by Kazys Varnelis...
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A day with Shelby
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Carroll Shelby, Builder of Cobra Sports Car, Dies... →
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Manual Labor →
For those of you in Chicago, do not miss the opening of “Manual Labor” tonight. Organized by The Post Family.
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La Defense, Almere, UNStudio →
Photo by Pedro Kok
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Filthy Luker →
Public interventions by Filthy Luker (via Fubiz)
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The NASA Design Program →
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration Design Program is a modernist vision for an optimistic future. The logo (often referred to as the “worm”) evokes qualities of unity, technical precision, scientific capabilities and uniqueness. Reduced to its simplest form; the one width, continuous-stroke letters are as contemporary today as when the logo was first introduced by Richard Danne...
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The Many Paths of David Chipperfield →
The 13th International Architecture Exhibition Common Ground sees the collective force of architecture as a value to rediscover through engagement. An architecture report from Venice by Laura Bossi (Domus)
Side note: We are thrilled to be part of the US Pavilion with our project Cut. Join. Play.!!!!
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Marina City meets Airstream →
“Off the road.” A project by Jennifer Meakins
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Dawoud Bey: Harlem, U.S.A. →
(A Boy in Front of the Loews 125th St. Movie Theatre, Harlem, NY, 1976 (printed by 1979). Photo by Dawoud Bey)
Can’t wait to see this show at the Art Institute of Chicago:
“In 1979 African American photographer Dawoud Bey (born 1953) held his first solo exhibition at the Studio Museum in Harlem, showing a suite of 25 photographs titled Harlem, U.S.A. Bey had been in residence...
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keep moving →
(via Iain Claridge Via Most ExeRent)
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The Amazing Infrastructure That Powers IBM,... →
Christian Stoll captures some of the world’s largest corporations in wide-angle splendor. (Fast Company)
April 2012
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House NA by Sou Fujimoto Architects →
Designed for a young couple in a quiet Tokyo neighborhood, the 914 square-foot transparent house contrasts the typical concrete block walls seen in most of Japan’s dense residential areas. Associated with the concept of living within a tree, the spacious interior is comprised of 21 individual floor plates, all situated at various heights, that satisfy the clients desire to live as nomads within...
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The Geometry of God →
Photographer David Stephenson captures architectural triumphs at the intersection of art and mathematics. (via Brain Pickings)
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Damn Good Advice (For People With Talent!) →
Really enjoyed this recently published guide by George Lois.
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The Neon Boneyard Park - Las Vegas, NV →
(Photo by cshimala)
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Allan Hill, Detroit, Michigan →
Allan is the caretaker of one of the few remaining structures that still stand at the old Packard Plant. Years of neglect have resulted in massive decay in this Albert Kahn designed factory. But, it has its own kind of beauty and for Allan is the place he calls home.
The short doc is part of filmmakers Ben Wu and David Usui’s “This Must Be the Place,” a series of shorts...
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Knife Typography →
By artist Farhad Moshiri (via Fubiz)
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Archipelago Cinema by Buro Ole Scheeren + Film on... →
Doesn’t look like a bad place to watch a movie.
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Ownership event with MAS Context and Studio Gang →
On Wednesday, May 2nd 2012, MAS Context and Studio Gang Architects are hosting an event to celebrate the release of OWNERSHIP, the latest issue of MAS Context, and Studio Gang’s “The Garden in the Machine” project, currently on display at The Museum of Modern Art’s Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream exhibition in New York.
Led by Iker Gil and Jeanne Gang, the event is a unique opportunity...
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Theater Bookstore →
I love how the Grand Splendid Theater in Buenos Aires, Argentina, has been turned into a bookstore. I know a few old vacant theaters in Chicago that would be great to try this. (Images via Fubiz)
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Unplanned L.A.? Think Again →
(Photo by David McNew / Reuters)
When David Sloane was asked to write a book about urban planning in Los Angeles, he balked. One person’s take on such a big and dynamic city would be far too limiting, he thought. So instead, he gathered dozens of authors to write nearly 30 essays on the city’s planning history, its current challenges and its future. (The Atlantic)
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An Experience of Ruin: Niemeyer's Tripoli... →
A survey of the Brazilian architect’s extensive International Fairgrounds of Tripoli, whose construction was interrupted by the Lebanese civil war in 1975 and never completed. A photo-essay from Tripoli by Pelin Tan. (Domus)
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Lecture by Giancarlo Mazzanti →
(Photograph by Iwan Baan)
This Monday, April 16, Colombian architect Giancarlo Mazzanti will lecture in Chicago as part of the exhibition Colombia Transformed organized by the Instituto Cervantes of Chicago in collaboration with MAS Studio.
Vladimir Belogolovsky, founder of the New York-based Intercontinental Curatorial Project and curator of the exhibition, will introduce Giancarlo’s...
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Bruce Goff, for a Total Architecture →
Visible structures and spatial complexity. Common materials used in uncommon ways. One house never resembles another. This is the eclectic architecture of Bruce Goff. (Domus)
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7 A.M. →
7 A.M. (New Year’s Morning) by László Moholy-Nagy. (via iainclaridge via The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Colombia: Transformed exhibition →
(Orquideorama by Plan:b arquitectos)
If you are in Chicago tomorrow Tuesday, April 3, don’t miss the opening reception for the exhibition “Colombia Transformed” at 6 pm at the Instituto Cervantes. The exhibition is the fourth installment of the Architecture Series organized by the Instituto Cervantes of Chicago in collaboration with MAS Studio and directed by Iker...
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Church in La Laguna by Menis Arquitectos →
Completed in 2008 by Spanish architect Fernando Menis of Menis Arquitectos, the church comprises four chunky concrete volumes separated from one another by sliced openings. (Dezeen)
March 2012
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Inside Marina City at pinkcomma →
Inside Marina City going to pinkcomma gallery in Boston! Join us for the opening of the exhibition on Thursday, April 5.
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Jeff Koons’ Model ‘Train’ Proposed For The High... →
Famed pop-artist has proposed dangling a 70-foot long replica of a 1943 Baldwin steam locomotive above a segment of the park. Koons’s ‘Train’ will be fabricated from steel and carbon fiber, weighing in at some several tons, and will feature spinning wheels, a blowing horn, and puffing steam–all part of what the artist attributes to the “ephemeral energy that runs through the city every day.”...
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“ALCATRAZ” AND FORD RECREATE BULLITT’S CLASSIC... →
Love that they are recreating the classic car chase from “Bullit” for the final episode of “Alcatraz”, this time with the 2013 Ford Mustang. More info here. Here is part of the original chase:
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Jungleland →
(Two houses on Alabo Street, one abandoned, one occupied. Photo by Andrew Moore/European Pressphoto Agency)
The Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans Gives New Meaning to ‘Urban Growth.’ The Lower Ninth has become a dumping ground for unwanted dogs and cats. People from all over the city take the Claiborne Avenue Bridge over the Industrial Canal, bounce along the fractured streets until they reach a...
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Developing a mutable horizon, 2011 →
Developing a mutable horizon, 2011 by Chris Fraser.
The camera obscura is one of the world’s oldest, simplest devices, dating back at least to the times of Aristotle. It’s a dark box (or room) with a hole drilled in one side. When light shines through this hole, it projects a perfect image from the outside world that has been flipped upside down. (Fast Company)