archiveofaffinities: Zoltan Kemeny, Banlieu des Anges, 1958

archiveofaffinities:

Zoltan Kemeny, Banlieu des Anges, 1958

Georges Adilon, Institute Sainte-Marie, La Verpilliere, France, 1976 (via subtilitas)

Georges Adilon, Institute Sainte-Marie, La Verpilliere, France, 1976 (via subtilitas)

Marina Abramovic, Trailer for The Artist Is Present, 2010-2 (via archidose)

Anagram Architects, Facade for the South Asia Human Rights Documentation Centre (SAHRDC), Delhi, India, 2012  (via hivelive)

"Our fortune must descend upon us from the clouds."
— Joyce Carol Oates (via meta-mash)
Spiegel vs. OMA, “An Obsessive Compulsion towards the Spectacular” 111 First Street Museum, Jersey City, NJ, 2006 (via archlab) Shohei Shigematsu and Rem Koolhaas survey their model for the 2006 proposal for the new Jersey City Museum.

Spiegel vs. OMA, “An Obsessive Compulsion towards the Spectacular” 111 First Street Museum, Jersey City, NJ, 2006 (via archlab)

Shohei Shigematsu and Rem Koolhaas survey their model for the 2006 proposal for the new Jersey City Museum.

Map of Oakland Cemetery, Atlanta, GA, 1850

Map of Oakland Cemetery, Atlanta, GA, 1850

Map of the Cleomenean War, 229-2 BCE

Map of the Cleomenean War, 229-2 BCE

Khedive Abbas II, Montaza Palace, Alexandria, Egypt, 1892

Khedive Abbas II, Montaza Palace, Alexandria, Egypt, 1892

Jack Cook, Illustration for Charles Fishman’s The Big Thirst, 2012 (via USGS; BLDGBLOG)

Jack Cook, Illustration for Charles Fishman’s The Big Thirst, 2012 (via USGS; BLDGBLOG)

Charlotte Birnbaum, “The Watchtower” from The Beauty of the Fold, 2012 (via NicolaTwilley) Including this “Watchtower” from the “Obelisk” group, Birnbaum has identified nine families of folding napkins: Blintzes Caps Fans Layers Lilies Obelisks Rolls Sachets Twins _

Charlotte Birnbaum, “The Watchtower” from The Beauty of the Fold, 2012 (via NicolaTwilley)

Including this “Watchtower” from the “Obelisk” group, Birnbaum has identified nine families of folding napkins:

  1. Blintzes
  2. Caps
  3. Fans
  4. Layers
  5. Lilies
  6. Obelisks
  7. Rolls
  8. Sachets
  9. Twins

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Definitions of the Month (April 2012)

April 2012 saw the reading of Giorgio de Chirico’s Hebdomeros and Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s Primacy of Perception

  1. Myelogenous (adj): Having to do with, produced by, or resembling the bone marrow
  2. Lyddite (n): A high explosive containing picric acid, used during World War I
  3. Metempsychosis (n):The supposed transmigration at death of the soul of a human being or animal into a new body
  4. Rancor (n): Bitterness or resentfulness, esp. when long-standing
  5. Sybarite (n): A person who is self-indulgent in their fondness for sensuous luxury
  6. Entreaty (n): An earnest or humble request
  7. Surreptitious (adj): kept secret, especially because it would not be approved of
  8. Constatation (n):A basic assumption; a condition that is essential to an argument
  9. Obdurate (adj): Stubbornly refusing to change one’s opinion or course of action
  10. Adamantine (adj): Unbreakable
  11. Peripatetic (adj): Traveling from place to place, esp. working or based in various places for relatively short periods

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Studio H:T Architecture, Shield House, Denver, CO, 2010 (via worldarch)

Studio H:T Architecture, Shield House, Denver, CO, 2010 (via worldarch)

Alberto Campo Baeza, Proposal for a House in Zahara, Cadiz, Spain, c.2012 (via subtilitas) “After working on the design for a new house facing the sea, the House in Zahara, Cadiz, for a long time, I now see clearly the solution of a PODIUM, ALL PODIUM, ONLY PODIUM. As if it were a jetty into the sea, so that, over there, on an emphatic horizontal plane, cleared and stripped down, it faces the distant horizon traced by the sea where the sun goes down.”

Alberto Campo Baeza, Proposal for a House in Zahara, Cadiz, Spain, c.2012 (via subtilitas)

“After working on the design for a new house facing the sea, the House in Zahara, Cadiz, for a long time, I now see clearly the solution of a PODIUM, ALL PODIUM, ONLY PODIUM. As if it were a jetty into the sea, so that, over there, on an emphatic horizontal plane, cleared and stripped down, it faces the distant horizon traced by the sea where the sun goes down.”

Alberto Campo Baeza, Casa Guerrero, Cadiz, Spain, c. 2005 (via allthedays) 

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