Ghost Town
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 […]
Category Archives: Architecture
Can density be beautiful?
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 […]
Continuous Moment
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 […]
Non-Plan
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 […]
A house is not a home
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 […]
Buckminster Fuller and the Geodesic Dome
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 […]
Metabolists
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 […]
Parasitic Architecture
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, […]
Stairs that lead to nowhere
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 […]
Facade Mashup
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. […]
Cedric Price & the Fun Palace
’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 […]
Pedestrian Bridges
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; […]
