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Review of ‘Architext’: A book series on architecture, design, history and discourse [Space & Culture]
Blogged on: February 23, 2008, 3:00 am
"Since the late 1990s, Thomas Markus and Anthony King’s Architext series has framed buildings and cities as social" A thorough review ensues.
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reviews | journals | academy | cities | architecture | urbanism | space | history
Folk Football: Landscape, Space and Abstraction [StrangeHarvest.com]
Blogged on: February 6, 2008, 7:19 pm
"Pitches have an extraordinary beauty that has evolved from chaotic vernacular origins - a trace of the landscapes of folk football ... This makes football - perhaps more than any other sport - a kind of essentialised urbanism." Fabulous.
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football | architecture | landscape | sam-jacob | history | minimalism | organisations
7 Abandoned Wonders of the Former Soviet Union: From Submarine Stations to Unfinished Structures [WebUrbanist]
Blogged on: January 28, 2008, 4:35 am
"There are abandonments all over the world, but the former Soviet Union has some of the most interesting, unique and strange abandoned buildings."
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ruins | russia | history | military-history | architecture
Floating Prisons, and Other Miniature Prefabricated Islands of Carceral Territoriality [Subtopia]
Blogged on: January 22, 2008, 4:32 am
Incredible post from Bryan Finoki on floating prisons, from the hulks that were emptied out to form White Australia onwards ...
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chile | australia | history | prisons | ships | architecture
1973: Sorry, Out of Gas [CCA - Canadian Centre for Architecture]
Blogged on: January 1, 2008, 4:46 am
"This major exhibition is the first to study the architectural innovation spurred by the 1973 oil crisis, when the value of oil increased exponentially and triggered economic, political, and social upheaval across the world."
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oil | history | exhibitions | montreal | architecture | 70s
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