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Dec 22, 2010
"Khu", "Matthew Barney and Jonathan Bepler" by Matthew Barney
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about that Pompidou-Metz "The bizarre blend of sophisticated timber technology, taut canopy, white painted steel and plastic sheet creates a disharmony that conspires to make its grim post-industrial surroundings even less attractive." May 11, 2010
Cynicism May 3, 2010
April 30, 2010
Moon Boat, Saudi Arabia Pavilion for Shanghai World Expo 2010 April 19, 2010
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New York Wanes "1972 is a turning point: The [twin]towers are delivered at the exact moment New York's passion for the new is spent. Along with the Concorde, they are modernism's apotheosis and its letdown at the same time - unreal perfection that can never be equaled." "As Heroes Disappear, the City Needs More" by Nicolai Ouroussoff, August 24, 2009 "Real change will first demand a radical shift in our cultural priorities. Politicians will have to embrace the cosmopolitanism that was once the city's core identity. New York's cultural institutions will need to shake off the complacency that comes with age and respectability. Architects will need to see blind obedience once again as a vice, not a virtue. And New Yorkers will have to remember why they came to the city in the first place: to find a refuge from suburbia, not to replicate it. That's a tall order." "An Open Letter to Nicolai Ouroussoff" by Andrew Bernheimer, August 25, 2009 "Why Nicolai Ouroussoff Is Not Good Enough; by Alexandra Lange, March 1, 2010 "Critical Beats" by Nancy Levinson, March 8, 2010 March 2, 2010
"Contemporary art does not account for that which is taking place" by Liam Gillick
"'Contemporary art' has historically implied a specific accommodation of a loose set of open-minded economic and political values that are mutable, global, and general sufficing as an all-encompassing description of that which is being made now wherever. But the flexibility of contemporary art as a term is no longer capable of encompassing all dynamic current art..."
"Constant and arbitrary reversal of positions has come to be expected like a nervous twitch to keep us intrigued. The contemporary displays a disruption between intentions and results, leaving a contingent gap that makes it futile to look for contradictions. The displaced is uniquely discoverable here. An inability to project into the future, to finish narratives having, by an accident of birth, missed the end of everything."
Room For Thought: Madelon Vriesendorp & Charlie Koolhaas
SUM La Candida by Adamo-Faiden
Siki Im concept store by Leong Leong
Curating / DIY / Cosmic Goop
Travess Smalley, "Cosmic Goop"
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad inaugurating a drone aircraft
"Untitled" Coney Island, Brooklyn, NY, 2007 by Shane Lavalette
"Except" by Suppose Architects
Pavilion for 2010 Venice Architecture Bienalle by MOS
Alejandro Jodorowsky's The Holy Mountain, 1973
Lacaton & Vassal, Social hoising, Mulhouse
Alejandro Zaera-Polo, Cheapness: No Frills and Bare Life
London 2012 Olympic Mascots, Wenlock and Mandeville
"Shattered grace in a hard city" by Edwin Heathcote for Financial Times, May 16, 2010
"On Cynicism" by Super productive!, April 27 2010
Denmark Pavilion for Shanghai World Expo 2010, Image from gummibsen's Flickr page
Centre Pompidou Metz by Shigeru Ban, Image from VisiOkrOniK's Flickr page
Resist Resisting God by Slavs and Tatars
House in Kodaira by Suppose Design Office
House in Higashi Matsubara by Ken'ichi Otani Architects
China's Ice and Snow Festival in Harbin City (Heilongjiang province)
"Introduction. Post-Mao, Post-Bourdieu: Class Culture in Contemporary China" by Stephanie Hemelryk Donald of RMIT University and Yi Zheng of University of Sydney
"White Briefs Against Filth" by Rem Koolhaas, June 2003
"January 1st Photoshoot [ with giant head ]" by Michael Paul Smith
"Atemporality for the Creative Artist" by Bruce Sterling
"On atemporality" by Kazys Varnelis
February 22, 2010
"Trail's End Restaurant, Kanab, Utah, August 10, 1973" by Stephen Shore
February 19, 2010
Manifesto For Simplicity by Reinier de Graaf
Reinier de Graaf presents City in the Desert
February 1, 2010
Bountiful, Utah, 2006.
Interior Landscape #3, Ivins, Utah, 2006.
"Close To Nature" by Steven B. Smith
January 16, 2010
Archizoom, "No-Stop City", Internal Landscapes, 1970
January 7, 2010
Toward a Theory of Surprise by Chris Bachelder
January 6, 2010
Projective / Post-critical / Post-post-critical / Evil
Projective Landscape conference by Edwin Gardner
The Post-critical Collapse by Kazys Varnelis
Toward a Post-Post-Critical Future by Trebor Scholz
Evil by Kazys Varnelis
"Evil Can also Be Beautiful"/Koolhaas interview by Spiegel
January 5, 2010
"Another Rem" by Lebbeus Woods
Rem Koolhaas and Reinier de Graaf Interview / Propaganda Architecture by Radical Philosophy