Hurricane Katrina, Three Years Later
[photo taken in May...2008]
It’s the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. For new readers who may not have followed this blog from the beginning, Life Without Buildings was conceived in a French Quarter alley and born on a Garden District Balcony into the depressing heat of a New Orleans summer and post-architecture school ennui. Then came [...]
Banksy Tags New Orleans?
[image via Flickr usr anthonyturducken]
If its not him, then its a damn good imitator. Never one to resist controversy, the stencils have appeared just in time for this Friday’s third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina… Jesus. I can’t believe its been that long! Anyway, more Banksy images can be found on the flickr pages of anthonyturducken [...]
Preserving The Modernist Schools of New Orleans
[Thomy Lafon School, Curtis and Davis, architects; Frank Lotz Miller, photographer; Tulane Libraries, Special Collections, Southeastern Architectural Archives. Via Regional Modernism]
Architecturally, New Orleans is perhaps best known for its Creole cottages, shotgun houses, and the mixed-influences of the French Quarter. But there is a small yet important concentration of Regional Modernism in the [...]
Links Without Buildings – 22 August
[image via City of Sound]
Tomason: the purposeless artifacts of architecture. An idea inspired by the work of Atelier Bow Wow and named after a Japanese baseball player. Pictured above is one such tomason found by Dan Hill in Sydney. [City of Sound]
If Gordon Matta-Clark were alive today, he would be a subversive installation artist. It’s [...]
David Byrne, Daniel Libeskind, and the Audio Perception of Space
[image via Creative Time]
David Byrne’s Playing The Building will come to a close this weekend. The art installation—a repeat performance of a 2005 installation in Stockholm—transforms an abandoned Manhattan warehouse into a fully playable, fully immersive musical instrument. Byrne describes the resulting cacophony as “authorless” but “strongly directed” music, with sounds created by air hoses [...]
Bus Stops As Urban Playground
[image via DVICE]
For far too long, bus stops have been ugly, ubiquitous reminders of inefficient transportation, dreary commutes, and the public saturation of advertising. No longer! Industrial designer Bruno Taylor thinks it’s time to reclaim the streets in the name of Play. Life Without Buildings wholeheartedly agrees. To reclaim the city for children now grown, [...]
