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Monthly Archives: March 2012

Parasitic Architecture

March 29, 2012by Sara 7 Comments

Architecture academia posted some ideas about parasitical architecture and I would really like to continue the dialogue and focus on some artistic parasitic projects. A parasite is an organism that grows, […]

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Architecture, Artists, Fiction

Stairs that lead to nowhere

March 27, 2012by Sara 3 Comments

Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Tower with Bridges, from Prison Caprices. 1760-61. Etching, 55.2 x 41.6 cm. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York I have always been fascinated with Piranesi’s Tower […]

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Architecture, Artists

Facade Mashup

March 26, 2012by Sara 3 Comments

The mashup is a term that is often refered to music or video where a file combines and modifies existing works to create a new  work that emulates the original work. […]

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Architecture, Collage

Cedric Price & the Fun Palace

March 24, 2012by Sara 9 Comments

’Now! Now!’ cried the Queen. ‘Faster! Faster!’ … Alice looked round her in great surprise. ‘Why, I do believe we’ve been under this tree the whole time! Everything’s just as […]

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Architecture, Cedric Price, Visionary Architecture

The Exposed City

March 23, 2012by Sara 2 Comments

I am reading The Exposed City Mapping the Urban Invisibles by Nadia Amoroso. Nadia Amoroso specialises in visual representation by using mapping strategies and reorganizes information and patterns found in architecture and […]

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Artists, Mapping

Sarah Sze

March 21, 2012by Sara 4 Comments

After a seven days’ march through woodland, the traveller directed towards Baucis cannot see the city and yet he has arrived. The slender stilts that rise from the ground at a great […]

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Artists, Italo Calvino

Pedestrian Bridges

March 19, 2012by Sara 1 Comment

I could tell you how many steps make up the streets rising like stairways, and the degree of the arcades’ curves, and what kind of zinc scales cover the roofs; […]

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Architecture, Italo Calvino

Constant Nieuwenhuys’s New Babylon

March 16, 2012by Sara 6 Comments

I have been influenced by the Dutch artist and architect Constant Nieuwenhuys, whose 18-year architectural project entitled New Babylon was first conceived under the auspices of the Situationist theory of […]

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Situationist International, Urbanism

Yellow pipes

March 15, 2012by Sara Leave a comment

Have you noticed these yellow pipes? We encounter pipes like this in our daily lives but because of their banality, they are usually overlooked.   These are the city’s gas pipes […]

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Yellow Pipes

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