Category: asides

The National Portrait Gallery is holding an exhibition of portraits of architects. The exhibition Portraits + Architecture explores the thinking that informs creative architecture practice rather than the details of specific buildings or architectural projects. The selection of the participating architect teams was based on the original nature of their practice. As a group, they…

House as infographic; the Pie Plan divides space based on time utilisation.

The Cosmonaut of the Erotic Future. An essay by Aaron Schuster on levitation in art history: I think it would not be terribly controversial to call Yves Klein the artist-levitator of the twentieth century. Indeed, with Klein, levitation becomes a veritable revolutionary program. In his 1959 manifesto Overcoming the Problematics of Art, the artist proclaims:…

All Stage 1 Entries, Shortlisted entries, and the winning proposal by DCM for the UTS Broadway Competition are now up online. Thanks John.

James Turrell at Design Observer, speaking about his project at Roden Crater: Exactly. They’re only interested in events that occur in that space. That’s why the Pyramids are much more interesting to me than Stonehenge. A pyramid is a structure with an opening to an event outside. The light enters down the shaft only once…

The Architects Journal lists their Top Ten Comic Book Cities. Unlike the top ten gaming cities they ran short while ago, this is a pretty solid list. Miller’s New York City, Moore’s and Campbell’s London, Morrison and Quitely’s Metropolis are significant studies of urbanism through the medium of the comic book, with Frank Miller, in…