Rolling Masterplan
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 […]
Auto-centric
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 […]
Cedric Price’s Potteries Thinkbelt
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 […]
Ant Farm
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 […]
Public Art and Urban Interventions
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 […]
Hall of Mirrors
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 […]
Taking Measure
The Exposed City written by Nadia Amoroso, which I have written about a little here introduced me James Corner, landscape architect and Principal at James Corner Field Operations. I feel like I should […]
Why are so many cities afraid of colour?
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Relocating
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 […]
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 […]
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