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Artdaily (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
LONDON.- Design Cities tells the story of contemporary design through the focus of seven key cities, in each case looking at their most creative moments. Whilst focusing on how specific periods have contributed to the evolution of design, the exhibition also investigates the ways in which design has shaped contemporary culture. Beginning in London at the time of the Great Exhibition in 1851, and
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Articles Database (Free subscription) | 23/08/2008
At the same period in the late 1920s, three houses were designed which encapsulated the differing strands within the new view of architecture, by then often called “Modernism”: the Dymaxion House by Richard Buckminster Fuller in the USA; “Les Terraces” outside Paris by Le Corbusier for the Stein and de Monzie families; and Haus Moller [...]
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*michael parekh on IT* (Free subscription) | 13/07/2008
NEXT IN LINE A few days ago I posted about a unique building going up in Beijing, the new CCTV tower designed by Rem Koolhas, with critical praise by Paul Goldberger in the New Yorker. Today, the New York Times has a feature piece on the architectural renaissance going on all across China, lead in many cases by prominent architects from around the world. The piece also has a great picture of the Koolhas...
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International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 13/07/2008
The country's new architecture exudes an aura that has as much to do with intellectual ferment as economic clout.
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DOS HERMANOS (Free subscription) | 28/02/2008
Walk around collecting Turkish union dues They will call you sir and shine your shoes According to the firm Mercer Consulting, Vienna is one of the most liveable cities in the World. In fact, it's equal third with Vancouver but behind Zurich and Geneva. The index used looks at factors such as safety, political stability, blah, blah, blah. After my weekend break I think they
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Crap Detector! (Free subscription) | 15/01/2008
menu card design for Miss Cranston's Cafes at the 1911 Glasgow International exhibition
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loud paper (Free subscription) | 29/10/2007
Guggenheim Jimmy over at Life Without Buildings culled through the work of Austrian artist Erwin Wurm (on view at MUMOK). The sculptures featured are somewhere between melting and inflating, like marshmallows in the microwave. And yes, there is a bit...
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documents (Free subscription) | 19/10/2007
I Adolf Loos : " When walking through a wood, you find a rise in the ground, six foot long and three foot wide, heaped up in a ro ugh pyramid shape, then you turn serious, and something inside you says: someone lies buried here. That is architecture". (Sourced here ). II In " Symbolic Exchange And Death ", Baudrillard contrasts the meaning of death in primitive and modern societies. Baudrillard's...
