Archive for November, 2004
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Camera Obscura
30 Nov 2004Photographer Abelardo Morell has published a new book entitled Camera Obscura, in which he captures with incredible clarity the results…
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This is so Post Modern, I’m Going to Kill Myself
29 Nov 2004What happens when 6 hot babes from the suburbs move into a paradigm of Modernism? Check out Gravestmor to find…
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Prince Charles: No Friend of Modernism
29 Nov 2004Living anachronism Prince Charles, apparently holds outmoded opinions to match his outmoded job. Currently, he is at odds with Deputy…
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Bernhard Tschumi’s "Advertisement for Architecture," 1978
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Manhattan’s Golden Gate Park
22 Nov 2004Artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude, perhaps best known for wrapping the Reichstag, will be lining the paths of Central Park with…
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It Will be Beautiful Tomorrow: The Work of Lacaton & Vassal
21 Nov 2004[Nantes School of Architecture. Via Lacaton & Vassal] I just got around to reading a brief write-up on Parisian firm…
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Art Abandoned by MoMA?
19 Nov 2004Tired of all the praise the new MoMA is getting? Then you might be interested in what Hilton Kramer, of…
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Insert "Ship in a Bottle" Joke Here
18 Nov 2004The last of the British tea clippers, the 135 year old Cutty Sark will soon be undergoing a complete restoration,…
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Architect Discovers Atlantis?
17 Nov 2004American researcher Robert Sarmast claims to have discovered the lost Continent of Atlantis off the southeast coast of Cyprus. Sarmast,…
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In a New York State of Mind Part 2
17 Nov 2004Uber-hip architects, SHoP, and the Richard Rogers Partnership have completed the phase one conceptual design for a new east side…
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In a New York State of Mind Part 1
17 Nov 2004In the wake of the new MoMA opening, the Whitney Museum unveiled the model for their new expansion by Renzo…
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“This Place is a Dump!”
16 Nov 2004Once, when I was in Architecture School, the girl in charge of the print lab covered the walls of the…
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I Can See Through Walls
14 Nov 2004Last Friday, I stumbled across the website for LitraCon, which has since been removed. I guess this has been around…
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Charles Siegel Hates Post-Modernism
12 Nov 2004The website for INTBAU, the International Network for Traditional Building, Architecture, & Urbanism, (patroned by none other that his Royal…
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Mockbee’s Legacy
10 Nov 2004What will happen to the Rural Studio? That’s the questioned asked in this article from the Christian Science Monitor. Now…
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Freedom (Tower) isn’t Free
09 Nov 2004In school, we’d hear stories of things like this happening, but never at this scale. Apparently, Freedom Tower Architect David…
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Porn follows function
09 Nov 2004Nothing too original here, I just couldn’t resist that headline. Colorado Architect Doug Eichelberge built a barn and stable for…
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…but does "the wall in the mind" still remain?
08 Nov 2004SFGate.com has a pretty extensive article on the past, present, and future of Berlin. Definitely worth checking out, and don’t…
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Why does America ignore its Architects?
07 Nov 2004This, from a frustrating Washington Post: article by Roger K. Lewis, professor of architecture at the University of Maryland -…
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Pelli builds…um, this thing, in Japan
03 Nov 2004This from the sometimes informative ARCspace.com: The National Museum in Osaka, Japan opened today. Designed by architect Cesar Pelli, the…