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More Resonating Freaks.
This one features Philip Glass and Thom Mayne. At The Great Hall, Cooper Union, 8PM. I’ll craft my disdain at this interdisciplinary star-fucking (Rem does a magazine! Eggers does art!) into something pithy for the Moby installment.
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Dal Co on Soriano.
Francesco Dal Co presents a lecture “Architecture and the Economy of Means: the Lesson of Raphael Soriano” this evening. Soriano is a ‘Case Study’ architect of whom I confess complete ignorance. But my unmitigated admiration of anything and all case study (even the glib appropriation of it, wrought well) should count for something. Wood Auditorium, […]
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5C Update
Downtown Express has reports on the rather heated Community Board 1 meeting from last week, regarding the tower Scott Resnick is proposing for ‘5C,’ a city lot adjacent to PS 234 on Chambers Street. Some of the interesting details include: even though a lapse of a 40 year-old development plan allowed the develop to resubmit […]
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Bring me your duplicitous, your obfuscatory.
If I have a category for ‘Deplorable’ this would be filed as such. If you haven’t heard, the Times broke a story over the weekend, after the rather abrupt re-opening of the Statue of Liberty, with the implication that the appeals over the last year for money were perhaps unnecessary and unreasonably vague. To whit, […]
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It’s not the Cyclone, but it is Solar.
The Architect’s Newspaper (permanent link at right) is a new publication, the focus of which should be self-evident. The diversity of their editorial board, and their (or so they claimed to me) independent status means for some lively and unbiased wrinting (read: it doesn’t sound like they are in hock to the building materials industry). […]
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Fab.
The Times (via the The Old Hag, who provides better linkage) gives an abbreviated round up on the state of prefab modernism. It’s springs from a recent publication (though the article isn’t a review), so their elision of The Dwell Home isn’t unforgivable (and Dwell, being a nominal competitior, somewhat understandable). Though I wonder how […]
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A New Home on the Range
is an AIA sponsored competition intended to …challenge architects and students of architecture to design the 21st century seminal house… for an unbuilt, single-family house. Entrants are encouraged to explore the impact of their proposals relative to economic and social issues associated with housing, and the principles of sustainable design. Site is near Denver Airport. […]
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Detail and Desire.
Lecture, and opening of an exhibition by 1100 Architect (who have a nice, newish site from Base) at Parsons. 25 East 13th, 2nd Floor, 6PM.
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Shrinking Cities.
Sponsored by archplus and domus, Shrinking Cities is [a] competition to identify strategies and new modes of action for shrinking cities in reference to Detroit (USA), Halle/Leipzig (DE), Ivanovo (RUS) and Liverpool/Manchester (GB). Pick one and submit a proposal, as in, your idea, not just your name, (be sure to register online first) by ‘April […]
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Koenig Passes.