March 2012
1 post
May 2011
1 post
March 2011
2 posts
Google Street Views →
I missed this at the new Museum, but am captivated now. I had the honor of being captured by the google street view cams. Search 336 Myrtle Ave, Brooklyn and I’m there with a contractor, leaning on a parking meter.
70's architecture schools →
May 2010
1 post
February 2010
3 posts
David Harvey - Right to the City (from New Left... →
Empowering the City: London and New York →
January 2010
4 posts
“So, I begin each day with a gesture of cynicism and close it with a gesture of...”
– John Barth, The Floating Opera
August 2009
16 posts
MAPPING: North Korean Prison Camps →
Washington Post cartographers make the hidden visible. Making the hidden visible.
NOTES ON CHANGING SEASONS
For me, this summer was all about beach paddle ball, bike rides, night walks, dive bars, exploring central park and roof-top prosecco. This fall, however, is going to be all about DISCIPLINE. That means resolving to live ‘better’ - which I intend to do by budgeting my time and money, being consistent and focused in my work and research and pushing myself to do more of the things that make me...
“Flux is the norm. All values evolve except the value of life itself.”
– Michael Benedikt
(I took my first-ever architecture studio with him, he put a smiley face sticker on my ‘Exploration of a Line’ but sent me back to start from zero on my ‘Exploration of a Dot’. True story. Funny, right?)
“Values are objective and permanent; what changes is our ability to believe in...”
– Roger Scruton, Most Architecture Should Be Modest: On Architecture and Aesthetic Judgement
DO YOU DACHA? →
Follow link for Russian summer-cabins and winter-shells. There is something captivating about this series of photos to me, I keep coming back. Presently working on some cabin research.
Dumpsters into Swimming Pools in Brooklyn |The... →
I read about this in the NYTimes a few weeks ago. Adaptive reuse of dumpsters, apparently as part of a larger scheme that would reactivate aged and obsolete shopping centers (and their parking lots) in Georgia. Brooklyn is the perfect test-market for this, Cabinet Magazine recently had a party there and of course it has been blasted all other the culture and design blogs (so I hear). I am...
CITY MURMUR "tries to understand and visualize how... →
Some interesting and very dense maps on this site. Haven’t had a chance to explore too much.
July 2009
1 post
June 2009
17 posts
NEW YORK SUBWAY PROJECT →
Aesthetics of Crossing: Land Ports of Entry /... →
“Land Ports of Entry” (Smith-Miller + Hawkinson) highlights the materiality of surveillance and openness in the firm’s designs for two recently built U.S. border stations that facilitate the inspection and control of passenger and commercial vehicles traversing the border between the United States and Canada. As both ceremonial gateways and sites of surveillance and regulation, the ports...
The New, Interactive Singles Map. Or, Looking for... →
yep
smog ‘cold blooded old times’, this...
Argument for free subway →
Last year I went to a workshop given at the Marxist School of New York by David Harvey. It was great, it was funny, people were in favor of free transport. I’ve always felt this way, buying my new month pass always hurts a little.
May 2009
39 posts
MAPPING - 'Immigration Explorer' →
Interactive map, you “Select a foreign-born group to see how they settled across the United States.” I picked Mexico, duh.
MAPPING - Subway Ridership →
via http://infosthetics.com, which is amazing.
Check out more subway mappings in the archive, theirs and mine!
MY LIVING ROOM - James Reeves →
The Living Room. In Home from Nowhere, James Howard Kunstler writes that “the public realm of the street was understood to function as an outdoor room. Like any room, it requires walls to define the essential void of the room itself.” Kunstler focuses his discussion on the traditional Main Street configuration of mixed-use buildings, big sidewalks, and a buffer of parked cars or trees against the...