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Posted by on Aug 20th, 2008 | 0 comments

Good enough for retail

Good enough for retail
If you go to Beijing for the Olympics you can see some really expensive architecture. You can also find some cheap knockoffs – something China is infamous for. As with retail, the architectural knockoffs can be just as amusing. Perhaps they don’t recreate the original faithfully but they give you something for the effort, even if a kind of commentary on the value of the original. Of course these...
Posted by on Apr 10th, 2008 | 2 comments

Comparing Oranges and Architecutre

Michelle Kaufmann’s blog has a writeup on a little idea regarding architecture, performance rating, and you. It introduces an idea about labeling paralleling the reasons for which we standardize nutrition information labels on food then applying those reasons for labeling architecture in order to communicate specific performance issues. This idea definitely has legs and could be elaborated on much more than...
Posted by on Apr 2nd, 2008 | 0 comments

Architecture & the ‘Starchitect’ fallacy

Witold Rybczynski over at Slate has a nice little writeup talking about the Pritzker architecture prize and inquiring as to why it would be awarded to an individual when architecture is not an individual enterprise. What about all the ‘little people’ involved in the process? Its a worthy question to raise and one which should be discussed a lot more.
Posted by on Mar 10th, 2008 | 2 comments

HBO, models, hookers, bums

In 1982 were you wondering about HBO’s new intro video with the model city? Check out this documentary about it. Evidently its the most accurate model city ever built, if you believe the narrator. Like the song says, pay close attention to the details. Theres, according to the narrator, a working light bulb in every room of every building. It even has a...
Posted by on Sep 26th, 2007 | 1 comment

Socio-Capitalist Segregation Manifest

Deputydog has a good post going now about the rich-poor urban zone divide and photographs of it’s manifestation. One of the best parts is the comparison of the size of a tennis court (pictured) to the size of the low-income housing just over the wall from said court. Sao Paolo isn’t alone in this phenomenon though. It exists in varying degrees of contrast in just about any capitalist urbanity. This...
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