Liquid economy - Jonathan Glancey on the London Festival of Architecture [guardian.co.uk]
Blogged on: July 2, 2008, 1:06 am
"To mark the London Festival of Architecture, Jonathan Glancey explores whether the capital's waterlogged past holds the key to its future "
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london | architecture | cities | history | psychogeographic | rivers | urbanism | water
THE REALITY OF THEORY [LEBBEUS WOODS]
Blogged on: March 29, 2008, 1:26 am
"Architecture, as a social and primarily constructive act, could heal the wounds, by creating entirely new types of space in the city. These would be what I had called ‘freespaces,’ spaces without predetermined programs of use"
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lebbeus-woods | sarajevo | architecture | history | theory | war
Light Vessel Automata [StrangeHarvest.com]
Blogged on: March 27, 2008, 11:47 pm
"Though essentially pieces of infrastructure, they seem amazingly poetic objects - as though sprung from somewhere amongst the sketches of John Hejduk, and the phrases painted upon them add to their enigmatic quality" Lovely stuff.
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design-history | floating-architecture | navigation | ships
A Lazarus Taxon [a456]
Blogged on: March 27, 2008, 9:46 pm
"For Banham, then, Russian Constructivism is a Lazarus Taxon: a species of architecture that though eradicated from previous historical records, reappears once again."
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reyner-banham | architecture | criticism | design-history
Hypertext Style: Cool URIs don't change.
Blogged on: March 22, 2008, 8:39 pm
Written by TBL in 1998
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architecture | change | design | history | interaction | reference | smartbook | web
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