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Visionary Architecture

January 25, 2014by Sara 3 Comments

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 […]

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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

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

Lebbeus Woods

November 5, 2012by Sara 1 Comment

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 […]

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Archigram, Architects, Architecture, Cedric Price, City, Visionary Architecture

But does it float?

October 14, 2012by Sara 2 Comments

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 […]

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Ant Farm

July 28, 2012by Sara 10 Comments

I am currently reading Michael Sorkin’s, All Over the Map Writings on Buildings and Cities (2011), and while I will be talking about it in a future blog, I wanted […]

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Architects, Architecture, City, Visionary Architecture

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

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

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

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