Posts Tagged with ‘New Orleans’
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Inflate and Imbibe: Art and Architecture meet in a New Orleans Courtyard
04 Jan 2010
[Des Cours Installation, original photo] In December, I participated in Des Cours, a week-long art exhibition in New Orleans organized…
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The Making of a Make it Right House
30 Jul 2009[Shigeru Ban MIR house] Can you guess who designed this rather clumsy looking Make it Right house? While it almost…
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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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Brad Pitt’s Make It Right Homes Now Under Construction
09 Sep 2008[photo courtesy Wayne Troyer] A pleasant surprise was waiting in the Life Without Buildings inbox this morning: construction photos of…
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Hurricane Katrina, Three Years Later
29 Aug 2008[photo taken in May...2008] It’s the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. For new readers who may not have followed this…
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Banksy Tags New Orleans?
28 Aug 2008[image via Flickr usr anthonyturducken] If its not him, then its a damn good imitator. Never one to resist controversy,…
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Preserving The Modernist Schools of New Orleans
27 Aug 2008[Thomy Lafon School, Curtis and Davis, architects; Frank Lotz Miller, photographer; Tulane Libraries, Special Collections, Southeastern Architectural Archives. Via Regional…
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It’s Pinup Time for The Sundance Channel’s Architecture School
18 Aug 2008[The URBANbuild house designed and built during Architecture School] In today’s reality-TV obsessed culture, any architecture student who has spent…
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3rd URBANbuild House Almost Complete
16 May 2008Just last January, The Tulane School of Architecture broke ground on their 3rd URBANbuild house. Now, barely 5 months—5 months!—later,…
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Art From Disaster
28 Apr 2008Almost 3 years after Hurricane Katrina, many New Orleans homes still bear the spray-paint markings used by rescue workers who…
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Local Architects Shaping the New New Orleans
25 Mar 2008Contemporary architecture is making some welcome headway in post-Katrina New Orleans — at least if we look at the top…
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URBANbuild Breaks Ground on New House
04 Feb 2008>Last Month students at Tulane University School of Architecture broke ground on their fourth URBANbuild house. Each house explores a…
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The New New Orleans Riverfront
11 Sep 2007[image of the jazz center via the new york times] An article in last week’s New York Times focused on…
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Architectural Soul of the City at Stake
30 Aug 2007A fantastic article @ NOLA.com about the preservation of homes and the slow, confused reconstruction of the city: Campanella believes…
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Katrina Memories
30 Aug 2007Yesterday was the two year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. I was going through some old notes and photos I had…
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The God of Thunder visits The Big Easy
27 Aug 2007An excerpt from Thor #3, written by J. Michael Straczynski and due out in September: …but the god of storms…
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Architecture School: as seen on TV
24 Aug 2007It was only a matter of time, really.Remember those frantic late night studio sessions when you rambled on about what…
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N.O. Return
07 Nov 2005Hey you. Yeah, it has been a while… What? Oh…thanks. You look good too. So um…sorry I haven’t called… things…
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Tales from Taliesin
16 Sep 2005Finally. I have internet. The past few days have been pretty strange. Normally, I get most of my news from…
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Modern in New Orleans
18 Aug 2005So I recently got a new bike and have since become addicted to just cruising around New Orleans. Despite its…