Archive for the ‘Pop culture &’ Category
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The David Leaves Its Site to be Received in a Manhattan Traffic Jam
14 Mar 2012[Michelangelo's David being scanned by The Digital Michelangelo Project] Last week a crotch-shot appeared in my twitter stream. Now, this…
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A Portrait of a House, excerpts from Absalom, Absalom!
08 Feb 2012
[Robert W. Tebbs, photographic survey of a Louisiana Plantation (1926); via] I’m currently reading William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! It’s a…
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The Same Things Happen: On Repetition On RepetitiOn Repetitionrepetition
02 Feb 2012
[still from Groundhog Day, dir. Harold Ramis (1993)] The same things happen. The spray-painted tag was written on a crumbling…
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Breaking Out and Breaking In: An Architectural Film Fest
31 Jan 2012
What does a heist reveal about bank design? What can architects learn from a prison break? What happens when we…
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Tactical Urbanism
01 Sep 2010
Seemingly oblivious to the city around her, the young woman takes the mobile phone from her ear and presses a…
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Over-caffeinated, under-employed, and Bored to Death
17 Mar 2010
It all seems so simple in retrospect. I wanted a cup of coffee, I got a cup of coffee. But…
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The Heroics of Scale
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On Influence: Batman, Gotham City, and an Overzealous Architecture Historian With a Working Knowledge of Explosives
01 Jun 2009
[Looking west from across the Gotham River, by Anton Furst] New York, Dubai, Tokyo, Moscow, Gotham. Every city in every…
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“You killed the car.” Cameron’s House Now on the Market
29 May 2009[image via luxist] As seen in the 1986 movie Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, the modern home of Ferris’ best friend…
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Mediocrity Rules! The Simpsons Takes on The Fountainhead
11 May 2009Last night, The Simpsons finally got around to sending up The Fountainhead. Yes, Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead: the superficially architectural…
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Considering an Alternate San Francisco
19 Jan 2009[image via Memory Alpha] While thinking about the two very different issues of starship architecture and San Francisco’s Presidio last…
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More Architectural Graffiti: Lego Brick Building Grafts
07 Jan 2009[Dispatchwork by Jan Vormann. via Junk Jet] The above image comes from
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Adaptive Reuse of Crashed Starships
05 Jan 2009I once wrote briefly about how I’d love to see a movie that shows us what happens immediately after the…
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“The Most Awesome Building in The Universe”
19 Nov 2008[image via ABC] In Monday night’s episode of How I Met You Mother, main character Ted Mosby Architect is competing…
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The Apocryphal Cartographies of Carroll and Borges
26 Oct 2008An excerpt from the astounding Sylvie and Bruno Concluded, by Lewis Carroll: “What a useful thing a pocket-map is!” I…
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Here’s what happens when you look for truth: Life Without Buildings Interviews Charlie Kaufman
13 Oct 2008[Philip Seymour Hoffman and Charlie Kaufman. Image courtesy Sony Pictures] Synecdoche, New York is a masterpiece of filmmaking. In his…
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I’m Not A House But I Play One On Television
23 Sep 2008[images via S.A.R.A.H.'s Twitpic] In an cross-disciplinary exploration of Architecture, television, journalism, and new media, S.A.R.A.H (Self Actuated Residential Automated…
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New TV Series Fringe Lifted a Libeskind
10 Sep 2008[screenshot of Fringe via fringepedia (already? really?)] Last night saw the official premiere of J.J. Abrams’ new series, Fringe (which…
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Future Megastructures, Starship Breaking, and Independence Day 2
19 Aug 2008[image via io9] As the human race dares to venture further out into space, we’re going to have to adapt…
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A Little Perspective From Spider-man and Renzo Piano’s New York Times Building
12 Jun 2008[image via flickr usr thehighlandway] When I saw the photos last week of Alain Robert, “the French Spider-man,” scaling the…