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PARIS 2e (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Somewhere in the northern part of France, close enough to the Belgian border, the French have erected a roadside attraction worthy of the best US highway tourist traps. Far from the decorated sheds or the lame ducks of a Robert Venturi ehthousiast, the proud region of whereverthehellweare decided to add this rotating wild boar to the list of things that begins in "the world's largest..."It's...
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varnelis.net - network culture (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Unfortunately I won’t have a chance to see this show, but I had the chance to contribute a brief piece on Archizoom’s “Structure for Leisure in Prato–Permanent Luna Park in a Shopping Centre” to the catalogue for First Works: Emerging Architectural Experimentation of the 1960s and 1970s , now on display the AA. The show explores the first projects that architects of that...
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Slog (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Sketch by Antoine Predock for the Tacoma Art Museum I remember the days when we arts writers were continuously invited to press conferences that were not about the arts. They were about architecture. The building boom in the Seattle area alone was estimated to have cost $1 billion from start to finish—Robert Venturi's downtown SAM to Allied Arts's do-over of Robert Venturi's downtown SAM—and...
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It's a cover-up (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
Some live by the rules while others feel they are only there to be broken. Anneloes van Gaalen’s new(ish) book, Never Use White Type on a Black Background and 50 Other Ridiculous Design Rules takes an analytical yet humorous look...
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Junk for Code (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
The exhibition New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-altered Landscape, held in 1975 at the International Museum of Photography George Eastman House, (Rochester, NY) and the show brought together nine photographers—Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Joe Deal, Frank Gohlke, Nicholas Nixon, John Schott, Stephen Shore, and Henry...
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Culture Monster (Free subscription) | 24/10/2009
The recent work of Frederick Fisher and Partners is deceptively simple. At the Annenberg Community Beach House in Santa Monica and a new academic building at Caltech, among other projects, Fisher has used a spare, restrained, formal approach to deal...
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Fast Company Now (Free subscription) | 12/10/2009
Travel & Leisure finds 15 of the ugliest buildings in the world. What on earth were these architects thinking? We tend limit our architecture coverage to, you know, things that are actually good. But what about the architecture that's really, really bad? Travel+Leisure has produced a new list that really scraps your eyeballs: The World's 13 Ugliest Buildings . For example: What you see above is...
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Slow Painting (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
Robert Venturi (Photo credit: George Widman, Associated Press) Robert Venturi, the Pritzker Prize-winning architect and lifelong resident of Philadelphia, has written a stinging letter in opposition to a controversial plan to dismantle the suburban Barnes Foundation and relocate its unparalleled collection of postimpressionist and early Modern art from its specially designed 1925 building to a new,...
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Phillyist (Free subscription) | 06/10/2009
World renowned and locally grown architect, Robert Venturi has come out swinging, criticizing the designs for the new home of the Barnes Foundation in Center City. In a letter addressed to the "Friends of the Barnes," he calls the estimated building cost "ridiculous" and expresses concern for a new building when the city can barely afford to keep its libraries open. The city's...
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Culture Monster (Free subscription) | 06/10/2009
-- Archaeological find: A new discovery of a small stone henge near the famous Stonehenge in England sheds light on how the monument was constructed. (Los Angeles Times) -- Taking one for the team: A survey shows that approximately one-third...
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Culture Monster (Free subscription) | 06/10/2009
Robert Venturi, the Pritzker Prize-winning architect and lifelong resident of Philadelphia, has written a stinging letter in opposition to a controversial plan to dismantle the suburban Barnes Foundation and relocate its unparalleled collection of postimpressionist and early Modern art from...
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Fast Company Now (Free subscription) | 24/09/2009
Object Lessons The maestro of Italian design lays out his (flexible!) system for enforcing creative discipline. Photograph by Emma Hardy Alberto Alessi, head of the world-famous design factory that bears his name, doesn't like to travel much anymore. And why would he? With an office in Crusinallo, Italy, deep in the heart of the famed Lombardy region -- home to some of the world's most revered design...
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Dornob Designs (Free subscription) | 14/09/2009
As a theoretical movement, Postmodernism in architecture (and in other arts) involved appropriating ancient or otherwise antiquated symbols to serve new purposes and convey complex meanings – it was short-lived. Still, there are some who seek to use symbolism in domestic architecture to create unique interpretations of the past, thinking both within and outside of [...]
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Commercial Interior Design & Visual Merchandising (Free subscription) | 07/09/2009
The Diesel store is still one of my favourite places to view while I am flaneur-ing the city. I cannot think of an occasion when I have ever been disappointed with their schemes and this is no exception. I always think of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Browns Learning from Las Vegas when I see this kind of homage to ancient Rome. The use of cardboard cut out columns and arches always remind me of...
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Junk for Code (Free subscription) | 21/08/2009
Mark C. Taylor, The Moment of Complexity: Emerging Network Culture explores the well known shift from the ‘grid’ to the ‘network’ that has being taking place since the 1960s. He says that the grid is the figure of modernism and it finds its most cogent early expression in the ideas...
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