February 2012
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“For nothing can exist as an ele- ment of knowledge if, on one hand, it does not...”
– Giorgio Agamben, “What is a Paradigm?” in: The Signature of All Things, New York: Zone Books, (via whathappenedthen)
January 2012
36 posts
A lecture on Brutalism
trower:
could not be more perfect.
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shell cottage/fnp architekten
cabbagerose:
via: drkmatter
1. How long have you lived in the area?
1a. How familiar are you with Buccleuch House?
1b. Do you have any specific memories?
2. What do you think about the current state of Buccleuch House?
3. Do you have any additional knowledge of Buccleuch House?
The importance of unlisted buildings
E.9 The guidance produced by English Heritage in ‘Conservation Area Practice’ sets out the questions which should be asked in order to assess an unlisted building’s contribution to the special architectural or historic interest of a conservation area. These relate to much more than a building’s purely architectural merits.
E.10 The following questions should be asked:
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“Much municipal housing was built in relatively spacious Upper Clapton. (fn. 27)...”
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Patrick Keiller’s London
Robert Smithsons Hotel Palanque →
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Minoru Yamasaki
Pruitt–Igoe, 1955-1972 As completed in 1955, Pruitt–Igoe consisted of 33 11-story apartment buildings on a 57-acre (23 ha) site, on St. Louis’s lower north side. The complex totaled 2,870 apartments, one of the largest in the country. The apartments were deliberately small, with undersized kitchen appliances. “Skip-stop” elevators stopped only at the first, fourth,...
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Tripoli, 2010
RED to HD. 24 min, colour, stereo. Tripoli emphasizes political history and architectural traces through the preserved relics of our recent past. In Tripoli in North Lebanon one finds the remains of one of the world’s most distinctive and ambitious construction projects, a stranded vision in the form of an international market place designed by the Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer in 1966....
“All your work should be filmed. This ‘film’ can be used to...”
– Tutor
December 2011
1 post
“The success of Brutalist architecture is, to a... →
“The success of Brutalist architecture is, to a large extent, a product of its failures - its inability to reduce everything to simple abstract material volumes. [It is] highly dependent on a certain level and a certain kind of detail - the isolated, discrete, singular element growing out of the…
November 2011
26 posts
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“The failure isn’t in the building but to the community that could not make...”
– Georgia Trower
MISTAKE OF THE 21ST CENTURY →
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Robin Hood Gardens
Is a council housing complex in Poplar London designed in the late 1960s by architects Alison and Peter Smithson, completed in 1972 - it followed the new example and style amongst the post war depression of ‘streets in the sky’. Characterised by broad aerial walkways in long concrete blocks, a reaction against Le Corbusier’s Unite d’Habitation.
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