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Monthly Archives: April 2012

Drawing a line

April 25, 2012by Sara 2 Comments

Maps, for easier legibility are simplifications of actual places. Through mapping projections – the practice of transforming the three-dimensional surface of the earth onto a two-dimensional plane – the graphic description of […]

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City, Mapping, Urbanism

‘Fake’ Estates

April 23, 2012by Sara 1 Comment

Gordon Matta-Clark, Reality Properties: Fake Estates, 1973-74 Uranculturalstudies’ recent post, “Deconstructing Reality: Gordon Matta-Clark” highlighting Matta-Clark’s well known body of work ‘building cuts’ (architectural interventions consisting of the strategic removal […]

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Architecture, Artists, City, Urbanism

Ghost Town

April 19, 2012by Sara Leave a comment

I was reading an article posted on Arkinet titled, “Another New City in China Bites The Dust.” The year old post got me thinking again about Celebration, the planned community created by […]

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Architecture, Artists, City, Urbanism

Psychogeography

April 17, 2012by Sara 8 Comments

Urban Cultural Studies posted “The City as You’ve Never Seen it Before” and it got me thinking about mapping and the Situationist Interntional. The Situationist International, an international group of revolutionary […]

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Artists, City, Mapping, Situationist International, Urbanism

Can density be beautiful?

April 15, 2012by Sara 2 Comments

I saw this image of Shanghai’s 20 year transformation and I was really mesmerised with the amount of urban development the city has undergone. Unfortunately, its not a very flattering image […]

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Architecture, Artists, City, Infrastructure, Urbanism

Continuous Moment

April 12, 2012by Sara 2 Comments

If on arriving at Trade I had not read the city’s name written in big letters, I would have thought I was landing at the same airport from which I […]

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Architects, Architecture, Artists, City, Italo Calvino, Visionary Architecture

Non-Plan

April 11, 2012by Sara 3 Comments

In 1969, Cedric Price with Paul Barker (writer), Reyner Banham (architecture historian) and Peter Hall (geographer and planner) published ‘Non-Plan: an experiment in freedom’ an article in a social affairs […]

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Architecture, Cedric Price, City, Infrastructure

A house is not a home

April 9, 2012by Sara 4 Comments

I saw Yabba Dabba Doo on Honestly WTF blog which highlighted legendary Dick Clark’s Malibu house. Clark and his wife affectionately nicknamed their custom-made house ‘Bedrock’ which sits on top of […]

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Architecture, Artists, Fiction

Buckminster Fuller and the Geodesic Dome

April 7, 2012by Sara 3 Comments

Buckminster Fuller, US Pavillion in Montreal 1967 I saw that Utopian Impulse: Buckminster Fuller and the Bay Area opened in San Francisco Museum of Modern Art at the end March […]

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Architects, Architecture, Artists, City, Visionary Architecture

Parking Garages

April 6, 2012by Sara 3 Comments

I was thinking about Ed Rusha’s Thirty-Four Parking Lots series that he completed in 1967. What I like about them is their complete banality of subject matter, an urban landscape constructed […]

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City, Infrastructure, Urbanism

The City seen as a Garden of Ideas

April 3, 2012by Sara 2 Comments

I have borrowed my title for this post from Peter Cook, a British architect and founder of Archigram, a  collaboration of six architects known for architecture through drawing. The City, Seen […]

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Archigram, Architects, Artists, Visionary Architecture

Metabolists

April 2, 2012by Sara 7 Comments

In the late 1950’s a group of young Japanese architects and city planners joined together to form the Metabolist group. They conceived of cities as living, moving and evolving organisms […]

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Architects, Architecture, Urbanism, Visionary Architecture

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