Streetlamps
I have been walking around my hood for one last farewell and I stumbled upon a street lamp that I never noticed before near a busy intersection close to where […]
Category Archives: Artists
Tunnels
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 […]
Model Room
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 […]
Reconfigurations of the Urban Grid
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 […]
Do Maps Create or Represent Reality?
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 […]
Dazzle Camouflage
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 […]
‘Fake’ Estates
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 […]
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 […]
Psychogeography
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The City seen as a Garden of Ideas
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 […]
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, […]
