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Public Art and Urban Interventions

July 21, 2012by Sara 10 Comments

Pierre Vivant, Traffic Tree, 2008 Pierre Vivant, Traffic Tree, 2008 The definition of what public art is has slowly evolved over the last two decades from large-scale sculptures to urban interventions […]

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Architecture, Artists, City, Infrastructure, Urbanism

Hall of Mirrors

July 18, 2012by Sara 1 Comment

The Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles was constructed between 1678-1684. The key feature of this famous hall was the seventeen mirror-clad arches that reflected the windows that […]

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Artists, City

Why are so many cities afraid of colour?

July 10, 2012by Sara 5 Comments

I am finally starting to get settled. I have almost unpacked, changed my mobile number and have had my connection to the Internet made. I am now living across the […]

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Architecture, Artists, City, Urbanism

Streetlamps

June 10, 2012by Sara Leave a comment

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 […]

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Artists, City, Infrastructure, Urbanism

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

Drawing a line

April 25, 2012by Sara 2 Comments

Maps, for easier legibility are simplifications of actual places. Through mapping projections – the practice of transforming the three-dimensional surface of the earth onto a two-dimensional plane – the graphic description of […]

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City, Mapping, Urbanism

‘Fake’ Estates

April 23, 2012by Sara 1 Comment

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 […]

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Architecture, Artists, City, Urbanism

Ghost Town

April 19, 2012by Sara Leave a comment

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 […]

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Architecture, Artists, City, Urbanism

Psychogeography

April 17, 2012by Sara 8 Comments

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 […]

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Artists, City, Mapping, Situationist International, Urbanism

Can density be beautiful?

April 15, 2012by Sara 2 Comments

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 […]

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Architecture, Artists, City, Infrastructure, Urbanism

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

Non-Plan

April 11, 2012by Sara 3 Comments

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 […]

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Architecture, Cedric Price, City, Infrastructure

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

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