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blindspots

from christopher hawthorne “…Asking voters to nominate single buildings necessarily produces results that give a skewed view of the way architecture — and more important, the way we think and write about it — has evolved in recent years. Among critics and architects alike, there has been a rising understanding that architecture is not just [...]

“international festival” is a group of architects

http://www.international-festival.org/ Architecture Television is about using lo-fi, simple and open source technologies to examine borders, possibilities and limitation to the mediatization of architecture. Architecture Television is televised architecture and architecture televised. The representation of objects as we see them and their measured description, two tasks that are conventionally distinguished in architectural representation, will be shown [...]

originated in rec.humor.funny – January 1993 … … Ian Horswill (ian@ai.mit.edu)

Unix was a program gone bad. Born into poverty, its parents, the phone company, couldn’t afford more than a roll of teletype paper a year, so Unix never had decent documentation and its source files had to go without any comments whatsoever. Year after year, Papa Bell would humiliate itself asking for rate increases so [...]

when you make stuff in the urban space

you’re dealing with urbanism, architecture, and public space. What differentiates these activities, if it ever was distinct, is becoming so drastically less so that it barely merits mentioning their divergences.

can you create an art gallery with $10k?

portland

the archly artful barista: “your coffee was roasted on the 7th by jim, 195 degrees, pulled for 15 seconds…and, jesus, you just put sugar in it…”. Getting passed by the hipster in a dress on a 10 speed while riding home. Watching beautiful girls in dresses carry on long conversations with homeless crackheads. Drinking coffee [...]

Sadism and art

Long fruitful relationship, sadism and art, however, sadism in all it’s forms is not one of my favorite topics. I find Guillermo Vargas Habacuc’s idea particularly difficult. I’m not going to go into his piece at great length, it’s covered here (in Spanish) soydondenopienso (in english) theginblog So we have two things: a man who [...]

to do or to program

One can always wonder: should I do it? Or should I simply write a genetic algorithm to do it? This is becoming the architectural model, how long before it becomes the model in other things? What would Miguel De Landa say about this?

“Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.” Walt Whitman