April 2011
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25 Abandoned Yugoslavia Monuments (via Julio... →
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Awesome "guerrilla urbanism" ideas for... →
Tactical Urbanism Final
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This is a Roof - A Rooftop Farm in Greenpoint ... →
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The Nazis and US are gone, but the devil stays
A post by failedarchitecture:
All that is left from the former listening station (photo by the author)
Berlin is dotted with historically significant structures. Many of them, however, come with gift shops and hordes of tourists. Some do not, like the Teufelsberg.
The artificial hill, rising 80m above the green surroundings in the west of the city, was created by the Allies of World War II...
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Open Data Challenge
Open Data Challenge
European public bodies produce thousands upon thousands of datasets every year - about everything from how our tax money is spent to the quality of the air we breathe.
We are challenging designers, developers, journalists, researchers and the general public to come up with something useful, valuable or interesting using open public data.
There are four main strands to the...
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Store Front: New York's Disappearing Face
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Ideal Hoisery, Grand Street at Ludlow, Manhattan (2004) Great article at Brainpickings about the displacement that comes with gentrification. In Store Front: The Disappearing Face of New York, photographer duo James and Karla Murray bring the same lens of retrostalgia to New York City’s morphing landscape of mom-and-pop shops. For eight years, the Murrays shot the facades of...
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El Carrito - The Mobile Participation Cart
A guest post by Claudia Paraschiv at engagingcities:
Trained as an architect in Los Angeles, Claudia recently completed her graduate studies in urbanism at MIT, for which she prepared a thesis on Los Angeles’ Public Space as understood through the lens of farmers markets; since then, she has became irrevocably committed to the study of public space. Her current work on Public Space and...
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Dieter Rams’ ten principles to “good design”
Good design:
Is innovative - Rams states that possibilities for innovation in design are unlikely to be exhausted since technological development is always offering new opportunities for innovative design. He also highlights that innovative design always develops in tandem with innovative technology and can never be an end in and of itself.
Makes a product useful - A product is bought to be...
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Walter Benjamin - Illuminations: Essays and... →
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Here (OCR’d PDF)
Walter Benjamin was one of the most original cultural critics of the twentieth century. Illuminations includes his views on Kafka, with whom he felt a close personal affinity; his studies on Baudelaire and Proust; and his essays on Leskov and on Brecht’s Epic Theater….
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“Las características fundamentales de la arquitectura futurista serán la...”
– Antonio Sant’Elia / Filippo Tommaso Marinetti en “Futurista Architecture” en 1914
/via giulianopastorelli
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Sneak Peek
Un post de streetarttechniques:
During the previous days, we went to hang the panels describing how some of the most relevant works of street art, in the areas dedicated to Public Design Festival, in Milan, were made. Have a look to what you’ll find around the city.
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WatchAnt Farm: Allegorical Time Warp, The Media Fallout of July 21, 1969 —
Felicity D. Scott presents a detailed and extensively illustrated reconsideration of the early trajectory of the Ant Farm collective, including its architecture, inflatables, performance, multimedia, and video work. Drawing together archival material on their extended fields of practice, Living Archive 7: Ant Farm features the...