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Como 2: Linear city Brunate (Photographer: Short Journeys/Flickr) (click-2-enlarge) When I interviewed Dutch architect John Körmeling this spring on his design for the Dutch pavilion on the Shanghai Expo 2010, he told me he had been inspired by the idea of the linear city: an elongated city along a single infrastructural line. Le Corbusier once had proposed such a city for Algiers, Körmeling remembered. In the design by Körmeling for the Shanghai Expo 2010 the idea of the linear city took the form of a winding road lined with individual houses. Como 1: Airport

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Profile: Michael Bierut: Statement I grew up in Ohio in the 60s in a suburban milieu where design was seldom seen and never discussed. My parents encouraged my interest in art, which was in my pimply junior high school days a first a hobby, then an obsession, and finally a refuge. António Jorge Gonçalves A cidade é a minha ostra. Desenho apontamentos urbanos desde que me lembro. Aqui fica uma selecção.The city is my oister. Since I can remember myself, I always had a pen in my hand drawing some city corner. Here’s a selection.

The Gravity Defying Paintings of Jacek Yerka I’m a big fan of the surreal art of Hieronymus Bosch (for me, Bosch was the first surrealist before surrealism was even a thing), and Polish surrealist Jacek Yerka says Bosch was one of the reasons he decided to throw himself full pelt into art, after seriously considering a career in astronomy. You can actually see his love of both astronomy and Bosch in his wonderfully odd paintings that defy gravity; bedrooms are turned upside down, 15th century Flemish towns are uprooted from the ground by giant stony heads, whilst libraries suspend reservoirs. It’s all delightfully playful, hints at mystery and myths, whilst pooling dreams for subject matter and Dutch renaissance art for technical inspiration. Think Dali meets Van Eyck and you’ve got it.

We need to kill the label “green” – part 2 We need to kill the label “green” – part 2 26 février 2011 Paola Antonelli, photo © Robin Holland, montage © Dimitrios Tsatsas, Stylepark Jochen Stöckmann: What do you offer the visitor to understand the cultural background of software, operating systems or the @-sign? Umberto Eco for example compared DOS with the protestant church, called Mac with its icons a "catholic" system and draw the conclusion, that Windows should be something in between both, like the Anglican Church.

Space - Mapping of Space has several concepts and each has a slightly different meaning. Even in every day language a space is no a space, but maybe a space. A room might be a space, but also a square might be a space. Probably everything in between is also a space. In terms of geography the division of space as in measuring it, is very important.

The Eccentric Artwork of Rebecca Horn If Rebecca Horn is not a cult artist, it’s hard to define what we mean by ‘cult artist’. But the truth is that Horn isn’t really viewed as a cult artist at all. From her distinctive looks, to her body of work that spans five decades and includes whispering Chinese voices in the dark, rattling hanging typewriters, Donald Sutherland dancing with snakes, and a woman wandering around with a horn protruding from her headpiece, Horn’s career is brimming with the kind of eccentric material that would normally see an artist labelled ‘cult.’ Horn, born in Germany during the latter stages of the Second World War, sits alongside Joseph Beuys and Anselm Kiefer as one of her nations greatest contemporary artists. Like Kiefer, it is easy to point to her homelands tumultuous recent history as providing a backdrop for her art, particular in light of her attempt to recreate Germany’s past for Skulptor Projekte Munster. No doubt the young artist experienced the scars of wartime defeat.

The Stories That Only Artists Can Tell  Here is a pitch for artists to write their own stories, their autobiographies, because there aren't many fine artists who have done so. A handful have -- including Thomas Hart Benton, Man Ray, James Rosenquist, Leroy Neiman, Larry Rivers, Margaret Bourke-White, Eric Fischl, Anne Truitt (if you count her published diary entries), Andy Warhol and Salvador Dali (neither of whose books were intended to be revealing, so they hardly count at all) -- and occasionally some artists have written essays for catalogues (usually about their art). However, the most important artists of the past century or so have been content to let others write about them. Why does that matter? A couple of reasons: First, it seems to me that artists talk about different things when describing themselves than do their biographers and commentators. Biographers focus almost exclusively on the artwork, who taught and influenced the artist, changes in the artist's work, an estimation of the artist's work.

House Satiya by adn Architectures Here's an extension to a family home in rural Belgium by Brussels studio adn Architectures. Called House Satiya, the project features an inclined triangular skylight at one end of the pitched roof. White-painted brickwork and a black tiled sloping roof were used to tie in with existing local buildings. Photographs are by Filip Dujardin. See also: Bastogne by adn Architectures (February 2010)

The Buffett Formula “The best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more.” — Charlie Munger “Go to bed smarter than when you woke up.” — Charlie Munger Most people go though life not really getting any smarter. Why? They simply won’t do the work required. architecture with intent: Canódromo Meridiana Canodromo Meridiana Barcelona Dogtrack by Antoni Bonet. Definitely one of my all-time favourite buildings by one of my favourite architects SOLO - Sense of Life Objectivists Now we're at the halfway point of our architectural debate over at my main blog 'Not PC,' here's a brief meditation on what architecture is all about. In five words or less: giving meaning to our lives. To quote the late Claude Megson, "If it doesn't have meaning, then you're just wanking."

Urban SOS Urban SOS: Fair Share Led by AECOM and Van Alen Institute, in partnership with 100 Resilient Cities — Pioneered by the Rockefeller Foundation, Urban SOS: Fair Share challenged multidisciplinary student teams to combine the concepts of the sharing economy with physical design to propose innovative solutions to critical urban issues. The challenge culminated in a live final jury event in Los Angeles on January 10, 2017, with finalist “First Class Meal” emerging as the 2016 winner. Students at Washington University, “First Class Meal” proposed revitalizing United States Postal Service (USPS) post offices slated for closure and their underutilized distribution network by using them to collect, store and redistribute surplus food to neighborhoods with limited food access. Four finalists competed at the final event, presenting to a jury of ten leading professionals from the design, government, business and technology sector, as well as a live audience.

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