Nicolai Ourousoff reviews the Hammer Museum’s exhibition “Between Earth and Heaven: The Architecture of John Lautner,” and suggests that the show ‘makes a strong case that Lautner’s role in forging that architectural legacy has been curiously underestimated.’NYT Article.Slideshow.Comments Off mb
Is Not Magazine — A Melbourne publication where each issue is the size of a bill poster that is then glued up on walls around the city “and is, among other things, an experiment in publishing real content where people expect to find advertising.”
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Kenneth Chang on the science of glass. ‘It is well known that panes of stained glass in old European churches are thicker at the bottom because glass is a slow-moving liquid that flows downward over centuries. Well known, but wrong’.IHT.Comments Off mb
The Guardiuan tours the creations of Mexican architect Javier Senosiain. ‘Aside from Casa Nautilus and the flower house, Senosiain’s zany, organic constructions include houses that replicate a whale, a mythical plumed serpent and a shark. All are in the same area in Mexico City, and he keeps a close eye on his creations, living in the shark and renting out the rest.’Comments Off mb
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Login 2030“A look at how infomatic networks may re-orientate a different sense of urban, the city, architecture and information. An alternative blueprint for what Sydney 2030 could be.” Some interesting propositions in here, including the integration of alternate reality games into the city, surveillance, and exploitable glitches in systems.
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