MAS CONTEXT RELEASES OWNERSHIP
The concept of ownership, the exclusive rights and control over a property of any kind, has existed for centuries and in all cultures. Whether state, collective or personal, ownership is probably one of the most determining factors not only in defining our built environment but in the way we have shaped our society. But what if the way we live has changed? Can we redefine ownership to adapt it to the needs of the society? Can that redefinition provide new opportunities for our built environment? This issue will be dedicated to examining ownership in our current culture, ancient traditions, legal system and physical environment.
The thirteenth issue of the quarterly design journal MAS Context, OWNERSHIP, is already out. Contributors to this issue include Martin Adolfsson, William F. Baker, Kate Bingaman Burt, Eleanor Chapman, Santiago Cirugeda, Killian Doherty, Kirby Ferguson, Jeanne Gang, Iker Gil, Pedro Hernández, Network Architecture Lab, Quilian Riano, Denise Scott Brown, Richard F. Tomlinson II, XAM and Klaus who is the guest cover designer.
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Domesticities | Lieb House, Saved
(Lieb House, designed by Venturi & Rauch and completed in 1969, has a new life as a guest house in Glen Cove, N.Y. Photo by
For such a little building, the Lieb House has a notorious history. Designed by the Philadelphia architecture firm of Venturi & Rauch (now Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates) for Nathaniel and Judith Lieb and completed in 1969 in Barnegat Light, N.J., the house — a two-toned, asbestos-shingled box with a giant, Pop Art-influenced number 9 on the front and a huge crescent window on one side — caused outrage even in a neighborhood where clotheslines and telephone poles were essential parts of the landscape. (New York Times)
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DENISE SCOTT BROWN AND ROBERT VENTURI
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The Lessons of Las Vegas Still Hold Surprises
Nicolai Ourisoff reviews the show “What We Learned: The Yale Las Vegas Studio and the Work of Venturi, Scott Brown & Associates,” on view at the Yale School of Architecture Gallery through Feb. 5.
“Mr. Venturi and Ms. Scott Brown (…) were on a search for a way out of the dead end of postwar Modernism, whose early hopes had by then deteriorated into a dreary functionalism. The book they produced four years later, “Learning From Las Vegas,” was one of the last of the big architectural manifestos and a heartfelt embrace of American popular culture that would be hard to imagine anyone attempting today.” (New York Times)
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