Cloudwatching.net. Andreas Angelidakis. Archive of Affinities. The 20 Best Architecture Tumblrs. With its emphasis on all things visual, Tumblr has emerged as one of the most engaging platforms for observing architecture, ranging from the historic to the surreal. The upload-based social network is a haven for image-hoarders everywhere, with each Tumblr carefully curated to indulge a very specific craving, be it endangered Brutalism or decadent interior design. For architectural history fetishists, Tumblr has proven an unending boon. It hosts thousands of images with historical documentation, and takes the role that a library or archive might have 50 years ago. Other feed-based networks fulfill other needs of the architectural community, (forum, event calendar, yearbook, etc.), but Tumblr peddles in images. That's also one of its drawbacks.
Tumblr's format can reduce entire historical movements to a series of images, divorced from their political, social, and architectural contexts and ethos. Still, this quality does give Tumblr so much of its cultural potential. Cloudz Watching. ArchitecturePasteBook.co.uk. Pink frequency. Q U E C K. A bit late. Today is the last day of my 100 Day Project, #picframeaday. Check them all out on my other Tumblr. Fun with the Inkwell filter at Paul Rudolph’s Government Center complex in Boston. New website alexandralange.net. More of the photo portfolios I’ve been posting here, plus links, blog, archives.
Contemporary Mexico City recommendation: Kurimanzutto Gallery, currently showing the work of Adrián Villar Rojas. Camino Real Hotel in Mexico City. The delightful ‘Living in a Modern Way’ travels east from LACMA to the Peabody Essex Museum. —Ethel Baraona Pohl— dpr-barcelona. The Charnel-House. Unhappy Hipsters. Van Life. Cabin Porn™ Lost coydog. Procrete. Fuck Yeah Brutalism. Architecture/urbanism/design. Hallgate, Blackheath (1960) by Eric Lyons & PartnersOne of many Eric Lyons designed schemes in Blackheath, Hallgate is situated on the former Cator estate, which was created by John Cator in the 19th Century.
Like most of the others, this SPAN estate of 26 flats is arranged around landscaped gardens, and features a sculpture called “The Architect in Society” by Keith Godwin. Image from RIBApixA Guide to Modernism in Metro-Land. Dimitris Polychroniadis Inspiration Blog. Dimitris-polychroniadis.com / architecture that looks like art / art that looks like architecture / no credits claimed AboutMessageSubmitArchivedimitris-polychroniadis.com 11 notesReblog 10 notesReblog 37 notesReblog 140 notesReblog 73 notesReblog 9 notesReblog 86 notesReblog 26 notesReblog 20 notesReblog 64 notesReblog 135 notesReblog 113 notesReblog 57 notesReblog 129 notesReblog 185 notesReblog.
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