"cities are places built for women"

…or so says Brian Eno in an interview with Index magazine.An exerpt:
BRIAN: In cities, you have the opportunity to do all the things that women are really specialized at: intense social relationships and interactions, attention to lots of simultaneous details. And of course in cities you can do very few of the things that men [...]

Sign of the Times

Utopia will arise in rural South Dakota. well…not really, but Marvin Miller is planning a new city, Laurent, to accomodate people who use sign languange - Miler, his wife, and their four children are all deaf. So how does one build a city around a form of non-verbal communication? It’s a subtle [...]

Ugly is the new Pretty

from Archinect:
BBC news had this picture of Kaliningrad, now in the news because of political unrest, This is the unfinished House of the Soviets, called “the ugliest building in the former USSR”
Ugly? More like completely awesome! With more buildings like this, maybe there’d still be a USSR. It kind of reminds me of [...]

We regret to inform you

back from a mini easter vacation, but no posting for a while yet. the hinges on my laptop broke and now i sit patiently awaiting its return from apple. the good news? at work, i got a new 20″ iMac, allowing me to publish this brief post.

Chinese Architecture by (gasp!) Chinese Architects

“Duchamp marrying a Chinese painting marrying urbanism producing a child that could be called contemporary Chinese architecture.” This is how Chinese Architect Chang Yung Ho describes his work. In fact, his drawings demonstrate the joint influence of the international modern and the chinese tradition - computer renderings incorporated into chinese rice paper paintings. [...]

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