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Doug AitkenALTERED EARTH 2012
Next week…very excited.
There’s also an app for those of us who can’t make it to France next week. Takes a while to download but it’s super worth it and it’s free!
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from “Theoretical Elevators, Vol. 1,” by James Fulton:
We do not know what is next. If we were to take a barbarian and place him, loincloth and all, before one of our magnificent cities, what would he feel? He wold feel fear, doubly: the fear of powerlessness before our architectural excess and our fear, the thing that drives our architectural excess. The dread of imperfection. We do not need cities and buildings; it is the fear of the dark which compels us to erect them instinctively, like insects. Perspective is the foot-soldier of relativity. Just as the barbarian would gaze upon our cities and buildings with fear and incomprehension, so would we gaze upon future cities and future buildings.
- an excerpt from Colson Whitehead’s The Intuitionist
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I was interested in architecture as it related to memory, and how unfixed faith is in memory, because I was trying to draw things from memory. I remembered floor plans, and they were all wrong—big patches were missing—and I was seeing that as repressed memory syndrome.
- Mike Kelley, re: “Educational Complex” sculptures
from Glenn O’Brien’s blog.
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NYTimes article about the future of Arcosanti
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“Making Planning Popular: A Manifesto”, David Knight
via BLDGBLOG
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Really excited for Chris Burden’s Metropolis II at LACMA!
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We must not be satisfied merely to ask how such models might conform to the supposed “realities” of a fetishized corporate economy. Rather, we must ask, quite pragmatically: What sort of political economy, and what sort of society, would be required to make another way of living possible or even conceivable in the first place?
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“Squirrel Highways” - from Everything Sings (Denis Wood)
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Serenbe, GA
Interesting new real estate development model - Certainly a lot to be said for the premise, but seems a little elitist and has the potential to create an insufferable population of holier-than-thou neo-yuppie culture.
In which planning/architecture/urban development is discussed intelligently or idiotically, depending on the reader.
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