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Narrative Atlas

October 24, 2013by Sara 1 Comment

Dennis Wood, Jack-O’-Lanterns I been reading two books “MapHead” by Ken Jennings and “Everything Sings: Maps for a Narrative Atlas” by Denis Wood. According to Jennings he has been a […]

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Impossible Architecture

June 2, 2013by Sara Leave a comment

Fillip Dujardin, D’Ville 007, 2012 WAM Architecten, Inntel Hotel I have written before about not being that interested in artists who seamless use photoshop to create a new reality. For me collage is much […]

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Architects, Architecture, Artists, City, Collage

The Contradiction of Consumerism

May 3, 2013by Sara 5 Comments

Bangladeshi volunteers and rescue workers pictured at the scene after an eight-story building collapsed in Savar, on the outskirts of Dhaka, on April 25, 2013. (Munir uz Zaman/AFP/Getty) With the […]

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Artists, City, Urbanism

Vancouver Matters

April 27, 2013by Sara 4 Comments

I just finished reading Vancouver Matters a  book  in which artists, architects, and urban planners presents the city of Vancouver through a variety of uncharacteristic urban elements as a “counterpoint to the […]

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Architects, Architecture, Artists, City, Urbanism

Diagram Mapping

February 3, 2013by Sara 7 Comments

World map by Ranulf Higden, British Library Recently, in my ongoing researching of maps, I discovered that before the 15th century, the word “map” did not exist. Instead, what today […]

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Artists, City, Fiction, Mapping, Urbanism

Collaging New Forms

December 13, 2012by Sara 1 Comment

A couple of weeks ago I saw this post from Dezeen about Dutch studio MVRDV ‘s proposal of a 400-metre skyscraper for Jakarta that looks like a collage of many separate buildings. What struck me […]

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Architects, Architecture, Artists, City, Collage

The flow of things

December 6, 2012by Sara 8 Comments

Sara Graham, StreetFinder: Vancouver, 2012, LJT40 Print mounted on dibond, 32 x 48″ I recently started reading Visual Complexity: Mapping Patterns of Information  by Manuel Lima. Although the book was recently […]

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Artists, City, Infrastructure, Mapping, Urbanism

Unusual Encounters

November 16, 2012by Sara Leave a comment

Julian Charriere, Some Pigeons are More Equal than Others, 2012 When I came across this post on iGNANT I was immediately intrigued (and maybe a bit concerned for the welfare of […]

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Artists, City, Urbanism

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

Coppernickel Goes Mondrian

October 21, 2012by Sara 1 Comment

Wouter van Reek, illustrations for Coppernickel Goes Mondrian Piet Mondrain, Red Tree This might seem like an unusual choice for a post but I recently got a children’s book from the library […]

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Artists, City

Reconfiguring Suburbia

September 26, 2012by Sara 2 Comments

I have finished reading Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscape, an exhibition catalogue published by the Walker Arts Center in 2008 for the exhibition Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscape. I realise […]

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Architects, Architecture, City, Urbanism

Aerotropolis

September 14, 2012by Sara Leave a comment

Peter Cook had great insight about using the airport as a model to build a city. I thought this was a great idea to start thinking about our city, its structure, […]

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Architecture, Artists, City, Infrastructure, Uncategorized, Urbanism

Rolling Masterplan

August 14, 2012by Sara 4 Comments

I wrote about Cedric Price’s Potteries Thinkbelt  not too long ago and this morning I saw this on iGNANT and had to post it right away. The Rolling Masterplan was proposed […]

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Architects, Cedric Price, City, Infrastructure, Urbanism

Auto-centric

August 9, 2012by Sara 5 Comments

Thomas Bayrle, $, 1980 As I mentioned in a previous post I have been reading Michael Sorkin’s All Over the Map and I just finished Sorkin’s essay the Jungle Urban: Welcome […]

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Artists, City, Infrastructure

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

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