Tag Archives: architecture
fractal architecture
Medieval tower fractal, Aexion, 2007 (via @mactonnies)
Hugh Ferriss
From Kosmograd’s photoset of architectural drawings by Hugh Ferriss (1889-1962), from the collection at the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library. Ferriss was active (and successful) throughout the heyday of high Modernism, and his work inspired other architects and influenced … more…
links for 2007-11-12: engineers, embattled churches, magenta and lavender
Crooked Timber » » Engineers of Jihad engineers predisposed to (right wing) extremism? Worth chasing up the earlier thread too (tags: psychology jihad terrorism engineering) Norfolk battle training area churches Another venture into another exclusion zone, via nyplep (tags: history … more…
links for 2007-10-13: Delirious Moscow
Delirious Moscow Owen Hatherley frames the history of the USSR as space opera, and is noticed with approval by William Gibson. Who wouldn’t be pleased? (tags: architecture History movies scifi USSR)
Richard Powers: Being and Seeming – the Technology of Representation
Richard Powers envisages the future of creation in a world of immersive digital realities, at CONTEXT: We can only hope that the postmodern hyperflood will not erode the gravity of experience behind the symbols, the patient, painstaking ear and eye … more…
The Watts Towers
The Watts Towers are restored and re-opened to the public after six years (NYTimes via Follow Me Here)