Finally! A Role Model for Architect Vigilantes

It’s been years since I’ve seen any of the Death Wish movie series, so I was pretty excited when Charles Bronson’s leather-like face appeared on my TV screen Sunday morning. Death Wish 2, the perfect movie for today’s hangover.
Early on, before any of the death wishing starts, we see Bronson in his office…but [...]

Unbuilt Works Find Life in Art

Manhattan Guardian and Seven Soldiers are two new comic books from Scottish writer Grant Morrison. The New York Times reports that the comics are noteworthy not only for the gritty realism and compelling ideas that Morrison always brings to the table, but also for their representation of a Manhattan that could have been. A [...]

Weekend Wisdom

“What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity, devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter, an art that could be for every mental worker, for the businessman as well as the man of letters, for example, a soothing, calming influence on the mind, something like a good armchair that provides [...]

Hey! Let’s Get Known!

Forget Thomas Mayne! Unleash your inner Thomas PAINE! That’s right, you wanna-be revolutionaries and posing pamphleteers, here’s your chance to prove that the pen is mightier than the sword. Pamphlet Architecture is calling for submissions!
To promote and foster the development and circulation of architectural ideas, Pamphlet Architecture is again offering an opportunity for [...]

The Next Big Thing

Reading through discussions of Chicago’s new leading lady, someone suggested that the twisted building is merely the newest trend in land developing - the metropolis’ equivalent of “keeping up with the Johnson’s (or Jones’?).” So I started thinking, what’s going to be the next trend to storm our cities? Quickly realizing that [...]

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