Visionary Architecture
Louis Khan, City Tower, 1958 “When the imagination surpasses the limits permitted by the institution of culture, one speaks of poesie, utopia. When critical thought attains and surpasses its limit […]
Narrative Atlas
Dennis Wood, Jack-O’-Lanterns I been reading two books “MapHead” by Ken Jennings and “Everything Sings: Maps for a Narrative Atlas” by Denis Wood. According to Jennings he has been a […]
Impossible Architecture
Fillip Dujardin, D’Ville 007, 2012 WAM Architecten, Inntel Hotel I have written before about not being that interested in artists who seamless use photoshop to create a new reality. For me collage is much […]
The Contradiction of Consumerism
Bangladeshi volunteers and rescue workers pictured at the scene after an eight-story building collapsed in Savar, on the outskirts of Dhaka, on April 25, 2013. (Munir uz Zaman/AFP/Getty) With the […]
Vancouver Matters
I just finished reading Vancouver Matters a book in which artists, architects, and urban planners presents the city of Vancouver through a variety of uncharacteristic urban elements as a “counterpoint to the […]
Winchester Mystery House
Knaresboruough, Yorkshire a stairwell that leads to nowhere Recently, I was a sent a link to this website that depicted 22 stairs that lead to nowhere. While I wrote a […]
Diagram Mapping
World map by Ranulf Higden, British Library Recently, in my ongoing researching of maps, I discovered that before the 15th century, the word “map” did not exist. Instead, what today […]
Collaging New Forms
A couple of weeks ago I saw this post from Dezeen about Dutch studio MVRDV ‘s proposal of a 400-metre skyscraper for Jakarta that looks like a collage of many separate buildings. What struck me […]
The flow of things
Sara Graham, StreetFinder: Vancouver, 2012, LJT40 Print mounted on dibond, 32 x 48″ I recently started reading Visual Complexity: Mapping Patterns of Information by Manuel Lima. Although the book was recently […]
Unusual Encounters
Julian Charriere, Some Pigeons are More Equal than Others, 2012 When I came across this post on iGNANT I was immediately intrigued (and maybe a bit concerned for the welfare of […]
Lebbeus Woods
System Wein with Christoph Kumpusch , 2005 is an experimental sketch of Vienna’s 1st District, and shows how it might find a way to change, even radically, without rejecting its […]
Coppernickel Goes Mondrian
Wouter van Reek, illustrations for Coppernickel Goes Mondrian Piet Mondrain, Red Tree This might seem like an unusual choice for a post but I recently got a children’s book from the library […]
But does it float?
I pass this abandoned floating restaurant on my commute home. It seemed like such a great idea – a restaurant that was able to dock anywhere along the River, offering […]
Reconfiguring Suburbia
I have finished reading Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscape, an exhibition catalogue published by the Walker Arts Center in 2008 for the exhibition Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscape. I realise […]
Aerotropolis
Peter Cook had great insight about using the airport as a model to build a city. I thought this was a great idea to start thinking about our city, its structure, […]
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