Propinquity
“We seem divided between an urge to override our senses and numb ourselves to our settings and a contradictory impulse to acknowledge the extent to which our identities are indelibly Continue Reading →
Category Archives: Architecture
Weekend 206.0
(1) Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of 1373 (2) Fantastic hyperrealistic oil paintings by Steve Mills (3) Ways to Manage an Image (WSJ) (3a) The Art and Soul of Disney (4) Jean Nouvel: Continue Reading →
Thanksgiving 2011
(1) Playmofan (2) The Original Disneyland Hotel (2a) Disneyland Hotel interior lobby area (3) Christmas and winter photoshop styles (4) “We are writing a primer on planning for the same Continue Reading →
Weekend 201.0 (WSJ Edition+)
(1) Mastermind of the Mega-Coaster (2) Great Books Matter Culture – A catchall for any group of things or persons that one wants to link together for the purpose of Continue Reading →
Weekend 198.0
(1) Rachel Field “Field also wrote the English lyrics for the version of Franz Schubert’s Ave Maria used in the Disney film Fantasia (film).” (1a) Walt Disney’s Ave Maria (2) Continue Reading →
Weekend 194.1
“Perhaps the hard truth was this: New Yorkers had never come to really love Penn Station. Charles Follen McKim, an architect rankled by the very skyscrapers, crowds, and cacophony that Continue Reading →
Deconstructing 194X, Part I of X
Quote 1 …only revolutions offer up spontaneous futures like 194X, and usually at the cost of great memory loss – heads must roll in order to usher in Véndemiaire, the Continue Reading →
Weekend 192.0
A day in NYC… (1) 194X–9/11: American Architects and the City @ the MoMA (1a) The Life and Death of Buildings at the Princeton University Art Museum [FIELD TRIP] (2) Continue Reading →
Weekend 191.0
(1) Un’Introduzione al Disegno Italiano (2) China Train Crash Shows Fast Expansion Problems (3) Spending dispute halts airport construction (3a) Dulles Metro station should be functional and awe-inspiring (3b) Airports Continue Reading →
Weekend 190.1
Someone once asked Goethe what color he liked best. “I like rainbows,” he said. That’s what I love about architecture: If it’s good, it’s about every color in the spectrum Continue Reading →