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 [...]
