Category: architecture
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Marfa, Texas (Americana #2)
I have been avoiding visiting the United States since Trump was elected president in 2016 and I can’t see that changing so long as MAGA remains a force in the land. But I have some fond memories. These photos were taken on my first trip to Marfa, Texas, in April 2011. The images in the…
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rencontres #2 (off the wall)
These photographs were taken in the LUMA Arles Parc des Ateliers in September 2014. The Parc des Ateliers is a former railroad wasteland covering an area of 27 acres that was first operated by the Paris-Lyon-Méditerranée (PLM) company, which became the SNCF in 1938. The LUMA arts campus, which hosts exhibitions, performances, conferences and other…
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red zone
#1 Café Slavia, Prague #2 Philadelphia, April 2008 #3-4 Diana, New York, April 2008 #5 Prague, September 2015 Beijing, April 2012 Languedoc (Pézenas + Agde), September 2011 #1-2 Agde, September 2011 #3 Malacca, January 2006 #4-6, Calgary, 2016-17 #1 + 6 Calgary 2017 #2-5 New Orleans, April 2010 Calgary, 2017-18 #1-2, New York, January 2011…
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outtakes #1
#1 Pézenas, Languedoc, September 2011 #2-5 Athens, June 2016 Athens, June 2016 #1-4 Athens #5 Andros June 2016
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curves #2
#1 Marfa, TX #2 Johor Bahru Feb 2016 #3 Calgary 2016 #1 -3 Clay Ellis exhibition, Third Stake Esplanade Art Gallery, Medicine Hat, Alberta, July 2016 #4 Sun Studio, Memphis, TN, September 2013 #1 Waxworks Museum, Melantrichova St #2 Rudolf Kremlička, mural in Fénix Palace arcade, Wenceslas Square #3 Prague Castle #4 Jan Štursa, statues…
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horizontals #3
Straits of Johor, Malaysia 8 February 2016 Prague (#1-3, 6 Karlín, #4 Holešovice, #5 Nusle Bridge) April 2016 Medicine Hat, Alberta 16 July 2016 Calgary June–December 2016
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Mies #2: the Tugendhat villa
At the same time as he was working on his Barcelona pavilion for the 1929 World’s Fair (see my earlier post Mies: light, air, clarity), Mies van der Rohe was planning the Tugendhat villa in Brno, Czechoslovakia. It shares many of the same design elements (the onyx partition wall, the cruciform columns, the vistas of…
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diagonals #2
Prague #1-3 Kampa Museum #4 Franz Kafka Square #1 + 6 Baba #2 Na Příkopě #3 Ovocný trh/Fruit Market #4-5 Trade Fair Palace, Aero poster by František Zelenka) #1 Palladium mall #2 + 3 Prague metro #4 Hradčany Karlín Vyšehrad (#5 apartment block on Neklanova St, Josef Chochol, 1913-14) #1 Smíchov (exhibit in David Černý’s…
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tube houses + motorbikes
The narrow “tube houses” [nhà ống] are a striking feature of Vietnamese urban architecture. They are typically three to four meters (10 to 13 feet) wide. Some of the older tube houses in Hanoi’s Old Town, which were often inhabited by several families, are up to 100 meters deep, while newer tube houses can reach…
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almost all right
“Is not Main Street almost all right?” asked Robert Venturi in his 1966 book Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture. With his wife and partner Denise Scott Brown (who was scandalously overlooked when Robert was awarded the Pritzker Prize, architecture’s most prestigious honor, on the basis of their joint work), he went on to write Learning…
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