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Monthly Archives: May 2012

Tunnels

May 29, 2012by Sara 1 Comment

In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how in the world she was to get out again. The rabbit-hole went straight on like a tunnel for […]

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Architecture, Artists, Infrastructure, Urbanism

Model Room

May 18, 2012by Sara Leave a comment

In Jorge Luis Borges’ story, On Exactitude in Science, Borges imagines an empire where cartographers become so extreme that they believe that the only a map that will suffice will need to […]

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Architects, Artists, Fiction

Reconfigurations of the Urban Grid

May 14, 2012by Sara 3 Comments

Rento van Drunen,  Gridcollages Rento van Drunen’s Gridcollages on pytr75’s blog put my mind back to Albert Pope’s book, Ladders which was published in 1996. This book was very influential on […]

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Artists, City, Mapping, Urbanism

Relocating

May 11, 2012by Sara 6 Comments

I am relocating and it is not to a neighbouring community or across to the other side of town but across the country. I am now knee deep in the daunting […]

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Archigram, Architects, Architecture, City, Visionary Architecture

Do Maps Create or Represent Reality?

May 9, 2012by Sara 5 Comments

Kim Dingle, Maps of the U.S. Drawn from Memory by Las Vegas Teenagers, 1990 Do maps create or represent reality? And what is the reality that they purport to either create […]

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Artists, City, Mapping, Urbanism

Dazzle Camouflage

May 1, 2012by Sara Leave a comment

I have recently noticed some artists using the strategies of dazzle camouflage. Unlike the  “woodland” pattern of muted green, yellow and brown abstract organic blobs and stripes adopted by the US […]

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Architecture, Artists

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