April 2009
25 posts
Open_Architecture →
“We don’t know what will happen, but together we can invent our future and cope.”
“‘Open_Sailing’ aims to design an attractive technological lifestyle to overcome any possible natural and man-made disaster, stimulating people’s ingenuity and sense of solidarity. Be it overpopulation, global warming or energy conflicts, we are living in a time where...
March 2009
12 posts
transitory transhumanism →
My friend Elena informed me that Arakawa & Gins, the “transhumanist” team of architects who believe that human immortality is attainable by living in uncomfortable, abstract, colorful, and often expensive buildings, lost essentially all of their finances which were wrapped up with Madoff. They have shut down their New York office, and laid off almost all staff.
Though it is...
“DIRECTIONS FOR THE DISPOSITION OF THE REMAINS OF INGRID NEWKIRK
As someone who...”
– Unique Will - Ingrid Newkirk
http://www.peta.org/feat/newkirk/will.html
MEAT
I’ve been thinking a lot about the meat industry this week, and this NYTimes column by Nicolas Kristof came at the perfect time.
“Pathogens in Our Pork”
Cristina - Jungle Love
Architectural Syntax
A few weeks ago, I read Le Corbusier’s Vers Une Architecture for my Modern Architecture art history course. After reading a fair amount of turn-of-the-century manifestos, rule-sets, guidelines, and criticisms in addition to Le Corbusier’s text, I noticed how similar the tone, sentence structure, and format is among architects (Modernists?) and their written works.
Everything from...