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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

Cedric Price’s Potteries Thinkbelt

August 3, 2012by Sara 7 Comments

I now take the West Coast Express home from work. I have a short commute and rather enjoy the quiet, relaxing travel from Vancouver. I am on the train for […]

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Architects, Architecture, Cedric Price, Infrastructure, Urbanism, Visionary Architecture

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

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

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

The City seen as a Garden of Ideas

April 3, 2012by Sara 2 Comments

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 […]

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Archigram, Architects, Artists, 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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