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An Essay on the New Aesthetic | Beyond The Beyond | Wired.com
"The “New Aesthetic” is a native product of modern network culture. It’s from London, but it was born digital, on the Internet. The New Aesthetic is a “theory object” and a “shareable concept.”

The New Aesthetic is “collectively intelligent.” It’s diffuse, crowdsourcey, and made of many small pieces loosely joined. It is rhizomatic, as the people at Rhizome would likely tell you. It’s open-sourced, and triumph-of-amateurs. It’s like its logo, a bright cluster of balloons tied to some huge, dark and lethal weight.

There are some good aspects to this modern situation, and there are some not so good ones."

"That’s the big problem, as I see it: the New Aesthetic is trying to hack a modern aesthetic, instead of thinking hard enough and working hard enough to build one. That’s the case so far, anyhow. No reason that the New Aesthetic has to stop where it stands at this moment, after such a promising start. I rather imagine it’s bound to do otherwise. Somebody somewhere will, anyhow."
machinevision  glitches  digitalaccumulation  walterbenjamin  socialmedia  bots  uncannyvalley  surveillance  turingtest  renderghosts  imagerecognition  imagery  beauty  cern  postmodernity  hereandnow  temporality  pixels  culturalagnosticism  london  theory  networkculture  theoryobjects  smallpieceslooselyjoined  collectiveintelligence  digitalage  digital  modernism  aesthetics  vision  robots  cubism  impressionism  history  artmovements  machine-readableworld  russelldavies  benterrett  siliconrounsabout  art  marcelduchamp  joannemcneil  jamesbridle  sxsw  brucesterling  2012  newaesthetic  crowdsourcing  rhizome  aaronstraupcope  thenewaesthetic  from delicious
7 weeks ago by robertogreco
TOC 2012: Tim Carmody, "Changing Times, Changing Readers: Let's Start With Experience" - YouTube
Notes here by @tealtan:

"unusual contexts in writing / reading text

“In a hyperliterate society, the vast majority of reading is not consciously recognized as reading.”

“What readers expect is more important than what readers want.”

Bill Buxton: “every tool is the best at something and the worst at something else”

skills, path-dependency, learning effects

“…we actually like constraints once we're in them.”"

And notes from @litherland:

"11:40: “I do things like … just obsess about weird little details. So, for instance … like, how do you do text entry in a Netflix app on the Wii? You know? I think about this a lot.” Your many other talents notwithstanding, Tim, you may have missed your calling as a designer. /

18:30: “I think it’s a tragedy that we have not been able to figure out a good interface for pen and ink on reading devices.” Holy grail. My dream for years. I would give anything. I would give anything to be smart enough to figure this out."
design  reading  writing  journalism  history  timcarmody  toc2012  via:tealtan  constraints  billbuxton  bookfuturism  ebooks  stéphanemallarmé  paper  2012  media  mediarevolutions  sentencediagramming  advertising  photography  change  books  publishing  printing  modernism  context  interface  expectations  conventions  skills  skeumorphs  skeuomorph 
february 2012 by robertogreco
Norman Brosterman - Inventing Kindergarten: Seedbed of Modern Art | Video on PBS & NPR Forum Network
"Norman Brosterman discusses the history of kindergarten and its influence on such modernist giants as Frank Lloyd Wright, Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, Le Corbusier and the Bauhaus school.
In his book Inventing Kindergarten, Brosterman argues that within this lost world of women and children we can locate the seedbed of modern art. With its emphasis on abstract decomposition and building up from elemental forms, the original kindergarten system of the mid-nineteenth century created an education and design revolution that profoundly affected the course of modern art and architecture, as well as physics, music, psychology and the modern mind itself."
decomposition  design  education  music  physics  psychology  architecture  art  modernism  inventingkindergarten  bauhaus  lecorbusier  pietmondrian  wassilykandinsky  franklloydwright  normanbrosterman  2005  from delicious
february 2012 by robertogreco
Explore the Era (Browse the Archive) » Pacific Standard Time at the Getty
"Delve into the postwar Los Angeles art world in this online archive, which provides additional material related to the exhibitions on view at the Getty Center. Learn about hipsters and happenings, and the venues across the city where all the action took place through images from the archives and first-hand accounts with the artists."
history  arthistory  art  pacificstandardtime  losangeles  getty  2011  1940s  1950s  1960s  1970s  modernism  socal  from delicious
december 2011 by robertogreco
Hypermodernity - Wikipedia
"If distinguished from hypermodernity, supermodernity is a step beyond the ontological emptiness of postmodernism and relies upon a view of plausible truths. Where modernism focused upon the creation of great truths (or what Lyotard called "master narratives" or "metanarratives"), postmodernity is intent upon their destruction (deconstruction). In contrast supermodernity does not concern itself with the creation or identification of truth value. Instead, information that is useful is selected from the superabundant sources of new media. Postmodernity and deconstruction have made the creation of truths an impossible construction. Supermodernity acts amid the chatter and excess of signification in order to escape the nihilistic tautology of postmodernity. The Internet search and the construction of interconnected blogs are excellent metaphors for the action of the supermodern subject."
supermodernity  supermodernism  hypermodernity  hypermodernism  modernism  networkculture  newmedia  postmodernism  postmodernity  truth  interconnectedness  interconnectivity  information  metanarratives  marcaugé  terryeagleton  space  place  from delicious
november 2011 by robertogreco
10 Things To Know About San Diego's Craft History | KPBS.org
""San Diego's Craft Revolution: From Post-War Modern To California Design" opens October 16th at the Mingei International Museum in Balboa Park. Since the show includes almost 70 artists and spans roughly 30 years of little-documented local art history, it's a lot to process. To give you a head start, we've put together a list of 10 things to keep in mind before you head out to see this groundbreaking exhibit."
sandiego  mingei  art  exhibits  craft  design  furniture  2011  history  glvo  allamariewoolley  jacksonwoolley  nortonsimon  harrybertoia  abstractexpressionism  enamel  alliedcraftsmen  convair  ryan  pointloma  kaywhitcomb  juneschwarcz  rhodalopez  jameshubbell  malcolmleland  svetozarradakovich  alinefisch  monatrunkfield  helenshirk  wnedymaruyama  johndirks  bauhaus  sdsu  jewelry  lynnfayman  california  marthalongenecker  ceramics  modernism  folktraditions  from delicious
october 2011 by robertogreco
Modernism did its immense damage in these ways: by... | Underpaid Genius
"Modernism did its immense damage in these ways: by divorcing the practice of building from the history & traditional meanings of building; by promoting a species of urbanism that destroyed age-old social arrangements &, w/ them, urban life as a general proposition; & by creating a physical setting for man that failed to respect the limits of scale, growth, & the consumption of natural resources, or to respect the lives of other living things. The result of Modernism, especially in America, is a crisis of the human habitat: cities ruined by corporate gigantism & abstract renewal schemes, public buildings & public spaces unworthy of human affection, vast sprawling suburbs that lack any sense of community, housing that the un-rich cannot afford to live in, a slavish obeisance to the needs of automobiles & their dependent industries at the expense of human needs, & a gathering ecological calamity that we have only begin to measure."<br />
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—James Howard Kunsler, The Geography Of Nowhere
jameshowardkunstler  modernism  modernisty  scale  architecture  design  corporatism  environment  growth  sustainability  urban  urbanism  humans  from delicious
september 2011 by robertogreco
Between the By-Road and the Main Road: How Does School Environment Shape Teenagers' Behaviors?
"Childress explains there were 3 questions that framed his study:<br />
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I had built my study on 3 simple questions: How do teenagers use spaces? How do they apply meanings & values to any particular place? How do conflicts about those places arise btwn teens & adults & btwn particular subsets of teens, & how are those conflicts resolved?<br />
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In…answering those questions, Childress comes to name 13 pairs of competing ideas he labels as modernist & existential. I couldn't help but consider how the ambiguities that Childress frames in his study of how teenagers live & behave w/ the sensibilities that inform high school design. In what ways do our rather modernist secondary school environments shape teenager's behavior? What might happen if the assumptions that informed school design were less modernist & more existential?<br />
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Childress concludes his study by stating that the presence of joy is the factor most important in what works & doesn't…work in teenagers' lives."
maryannreilly  schools  schooldesign  adolescents  teens  modernism  herbchildress  2000  books  toread  lcproject  tcsnmy  learning  education  joy  well-being  environment  environmentaldesign  purpose  society  unschooling  deschooling  2011  from delicious
september 2011 by robertogreco
CYBER-COMMUNISM by Richard Barbrook | Imaginary Futures
"Within the Net, working together by circulating gifts is now a daily experience for millions of people. As well as in their jobs, individuals also collaborate on collective projects in their free time. Freed from the immediate disciplines of the marketplace, work can increasingly become a gift. The enlightened few are no longer needed to lead the masses towards the future. For the majority of Net users are already participating within the productive relations of cyber-communism…Having no need to sell information as commodities, they spontaneously work together by circulating gifts. All across the world, politicians, executives and pundits are inspired by the rapid expansion of e-commerce in the USA. Mesmerised by neo-liberal ideology, they fail to notice that most information is already circulating as gifts within the Net. Engaged in superseding capitalism, Americans are successfully constructing the utopian future in the present: cyber-communism."
communism  cyberspace  capitalism  richardbarbrook  internet  networks  networkculture  networkcommunities  communities  cyber-communism  californianideology  gifteconomy  economics  sharing  copyright  modernism  modernity  commodities  abundance  cognitivesurplus  1999 
june 2011 by robertogreco
49 Classics of Mid-Century Design We Need Your Help Identifying - Alexis Madrigal - Life - The Atlantic
"Collectors covet mid-century design for a reason: The clean lines and bright colors of the 1950s are beautiful. But there was more to the era's design considerations. The burst of creative energy that followed World War II spurred consumption by creating an endless array of new products, and when those were in short supply, new forms (and colors) for old products. The production of beauty was placed in the service of consumerism and anti-communism.<br />
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American Look showcases this design-industrial complex of ideas in beautiful Technicolor. Created in 1958 by the Jam Handy Organization, a large commercial filmmaking concern, with funding from Chevrolet, the 23-minute film surveys the landscape of late-50s aspirational life from interior dining sets to new work machines to speed boats. Taken together, the objects in the film paint a portrait of the variety of things that only American capitalism could deliver."
design  video  film  documentary  alexismadrigal  modernism  furniture  industrialdesign  2011  consumerism  us  mid-centurymodern  from delicious
june 2011 by robertogreco
The Faux-Vintage Photo: Full Essay (Parts I, II and III) » Cyborgology
"I am working on a dissertation about self-documentation and social media and have decided to take on theorizing the rise of faux-vintage photography (e.g., Hipstamatic, Instagram). From May 10-12, 2011, I posted a three part essay. This post combines all three together."

[See also (some of the tags reference): http://varnelis.net/blog/atemporality_the_iphone_camera_and_the_hipster ]
photography  twitter  instagram  hipstamatic  2011  nathanjurgenson  self-documentation  faux-vintage  hipsters  nostalgia  nostalgiaforthepresent  atemporality  networkculture  cameras  iphone  cameraphone  kazysvarnelis  timmaly  allegory  comment  postmodernism  modernism  furniture  from delicious
may 2011 by robertogreco
Mould Manifesto against Rationalism in Architecture · Hundertwasser Manifestos and Texts · Hundertwasser
"Painting & sculpture are now free, inasmuch as anyone may produce any sort of creation & subsequently display it. In arch, however, this fundamental freedom, which must be regarded as precondition for any art, does not exist, for a person must first have diploma in order to build. Why?<br />
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Everyone should be able to build…as long as this freedom to build does not exist, present-day planned architecture cannot be considered art…Our architecture has succumbed to same censorship as has painting in Soviet Union. All that has been achieved are detached & pitiable compromises by men of bad conscience who work w/ straight-edged rulers."<br />
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"Addendum 1964: …architect’ only function should be that of technical advisor, i.e., answering questions regarding materials, stability, etc. The architect should be subordinate to occupant or at least to occupant’s wishes.<br />
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All occupants must be free to create "outer skins"–must be free to determine & transform outward shell of domicile facing street."
architecture  environment  philosophy  1958  1959  1964  gaudí  wattstowers  simonrodia  artnouveau  sausalito  houseboats  slums  vernacular  vernaculararchitecture  democratic  colloquialarchitecture  design  modernism  mouldinessmanifesto  rationalism  hundertwasser  via:bopuc  from delicious
april 2011 by robertogreco
MAS Context
"Francine Stock, president of DOCOMOMO US/Louisiana, writes about the current situation of the mid-century public schools in the city. Either demolished or in danger of demolition, these structures represent a type of type of architecture that was forward thinking and innovative in the way they were built and used by the public. The process to discuss their future when they become obsolete has failed to provide a fair space to listen to new options. Can we establish another way of approaching this problem?"
architecture  nola  design  masstudio  mascontext  schools  schooldesign  mid-centurymodern  modernism  modern  francinestock  neworleans  from delicious
april 2011 by robertogreco
Regional Modernism :: The New Orleans Archives
"Documenting the process of documenting modernism in New Orleans"
architecture  neworleans  nola  modernism  design  from delicious
april 2011 by robertogreco
docomomo_nola
"d o c o m o m o l o u i s i a n a is a regional chapter of an international committee dedicated to the documentation and conservation of the buildings, sites and neighborhoods of the modern movement"<br />
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"documentation and conservation of the buildings, sites and neighborhoods of the modern movementIn accordance with DOCOMOMO-US, the Louisiana chapter advocates the documentation and conservation of the City of New Orleans, State of Louisiana and the Gulf South region’s manifestations of the Modern movement."
nola  neworleans  modernism  architecture  preservation  conservation  louisiana  design  from delicious
april 2011 by robertogreco
Power « Adam Greenfield's Speedbird
"To me, power is…

- an ability expressed within an immanent grid of relations superimposed on the phenomenal world, from which it’s effectively impossible to escape;

- the ability to shape flows of matter, energy and information through that grid of relations, and most particularly through bodies situated in space and time (including one’s own);

- the ability to determine outcomes where such bodies are concerned;

- this ability consciously recognized and understood.

By this definition, power can be exerted locally or globally, at microscale or macro-."

[See also the comments, including further reading and a definition of lines by Fred Scharmen.]
power  adamgreenfield  definitions  richarddawkins  buddhism  feminism  anarchism  deleuze  guattari  davidharvey  gayatrispivak  naomiklein  antonionegri  michaelhardt  matter  energy  relationships  body  space  time  spacetime  scale  fredscharmen  lines  adamkahane  paultillich  foucault  zygmuntbauman  modernism  johnruskin  gillesdeleuze  from delicious
march 2011 by robertogreco
what’s wrong with “prosthetics porn”? (part II) | Abler.
"How can technologies demonstrate an outward posture? I mean, how might they extend their forms and also their functions, beyond a single user? Couldn’t they both resolve & reveal, pose more questions than answers?…"<br />
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"A built environment, a city that accommodates—& indeed demonstrates—physical or cognitive interdependence doesn’t only call for limbs & ramps. We need wholly-spectacular impracticalities, & artistic research & collaboration, & public interactive art, & we need the most durable accessibility equipment we can design."<br />
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"Moreover, we might take the long view in order to get the short view more clearly in focus. This has long been said of science fiction in literature—that our ideas about the future are really an index of our attitudes in the present. I’m interested in futurism in prosthetics as an inquiry & spectacle, & I also want to make projects that help us harness our technologies for a more inclusive world."
abler  sarahendren  prosthetics  bikes  bikesharing  interdependence  cities  architecture  technology  assistivetechnology  art  publicart  accessibility  design  present  future  inclusiveness  inclusion  futurism  objects  objectfixations  prostheticsporn  modernism  utopia  structures  spatialagency  brunolatour  parasite  michaelrakowitz  rebar  adaptivetechnologies  adaptive  eyeborg  eyewear  tandems  tandembicycles  biking  spoke-o-dometer  from delicious
march 2011 by robertogreco
this is a456: Utopia For Sale
"somehow rings familiar. During early 20th century, art & architecture never existed wholly isolated from popular culture, consumerism, or corporate interests. This was the case in Europe as it was in US. As Le Corbusier’s Plan Voisin or various Reynolds Aluminum ads that would appear in US in 1940s demonstrate, corporate interests sometimes found an unlikely alliance w/ avant-garde. But with Bel Geddes & “The City of Tomorrow,” something slightly different was in order. The author of Horizons did see himself primarily as artist, but never in the same vein as would Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, or Erich Mendelsohn. As a person who always wore his commercial aspirations on his sleeve, Bel Geddes became a figure willing to leverage artistic inclinations not only as a kind of expertise, but as vehicle for transmitting ideas about contemporary urbanism to mass audiences. He was…person who popularized utopia by giving it its most tangible & visibly-appealing manifestation…"
design  culture  politics  history  theory  streamlining  stanleyrestor  henrydreyfuss  modernism  raymondloewy  walterdorwinteague  nomanbelgeddes  advertising  lecorbusier  thecityoftomorrow  architecture  art  commercialism  shelloil  gm  pedestrians  utopia  utopian  transportation  cars  broadacre  millermcclintock  from delicious
february 2011 by robertogreco
Does a strict upbringing make you a better designer?: Observatory: Design Observer
Coment from pboy: "Oh, barf! Even the Tiger Mom has expressed some ambiguity about the outcomes of her parenting philosophy, but to use the current craze over her as the excuse for yet another reification of the moldy-oldie of graphic design 'Modernism' is just pathetic. Beirut was lucky to have experienced the Kalman corrective to Vignelli's moribund fake discipline. ... romanticize the intolerant and didactic daddies all you want, it's the generation that finally walked away from what had devolved into a rigid and phony stance that let the 'discipline' grow. And that includes Beirut, even if he's too traumatized by his own experience with tough love to be able to recognize it, or to be able admit more clearly, and without the unnecessary flattery to Vignelli, that he learned to think for himself, and move on."
design  typography  modernism  michaelbierut  via:migurski  parenting  amychua  rigidity  graphicdesign  massimovignelli  authoritarianism  creativity  criticalthinking  toughlove  teaching  education  learning  identity  unschooling  deschooling  discipline  tiborkalman  rules  constraints  from delicious
february 2011 by robertogreco
An Aesthetic of Everyday Life: Modernism and a Japanese popular aesthetic ideal, “Iki”
"Nineteenth century Japanese popular cultural phenomena, most notably the Japanese woodblock print and painting, ukiyo-e, have made significant contributions to modernist artistic movements, in particular the Arts and Crafts movement, Art Nouveau, impressionism, post-impressionism, and fauvism. In addition, it is worth mentioning the influence of Japanese architecture on Frank Lloyd Wright, who also loved ukiyo-e.[1] These influences are primarily the result of applying Western values, specifically, aesthetic values to the interpretation of Japanese culture.<br />
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However, this interpretation has had the tendency to be one-way, and there have been relatively few attempts to applying non-Western ideas to Western culture. Is this because it is futile to do so? Or because it is impossible?"
aesthetics  japan  culture  art  theory  modernism  yamamotoyuji  iki  ukiyo-e  franklloydwright  from delicious
january 2011 by robertogreco
Factory Studio, Spring 2011 | varnelis.net
"If modernity is defined by mass production, then the factory is modern architecture’s definitive typology. Early factories were widely understood as sublime, sites of awe & horror that could only be overcome by the exertion of human reason. Spurred by this challenge, from the 18th century onward, architects & social reformers envisioned rational & just factories, not merely workplaces but rather centers of human habitation, places of joy in labor, & envisioned societies built around them.

Today, the factory evokes images of structures either converted to art museums, lofts, or abandoned to decay. With factories outsourced, design has all but abandoned re-imagining this critical site of human activity, the one truly new building type of modernity. Our interest is to use architecture & most advanced thinking in network culture to construct new & better ways of life. In doing so, this studio is engaged first & foremost with institution building and shaping of social behavior."
kazysvarnelis  abundance  factories  architecture  design  modernism  modernity  networkculture  behavior  2011  society  work  social  socialbehavior  from delicious
january 2011 by robertogreco
radarq.net
"That Man from Rio (L’Homme de Rio). Scene filmed in Oscar Niemeyer’s nascent Brasília. + alebenevides :Belmondo en Brasília (1964). Grandes vistas de la ciudad recién inaugurada. Aún era posible ver los campamentos de obreros en los márgenes del Lago Paranoá."
architecture  brasilia  brasil  modernism  oscarniemeyer  niemeyer  1964  urban  planning  cities  film  from delicious
december 2010 by robertogreco
Alexandra Lange: Networks Before the Internet: Observers Room: Design Observer
"On the wall at the Noguchi Museum's excellent new show, On Becoming an Artist: Isamu Noguchi & His Contemporaries, 1922-1960, is the flow chart above, reducing the artistic collaborations of a lifetime to a series of black lines. Charts like these are a bit of an obsession for mid-century design historians. There's one on the cover of Gordon Bruce's monograph on Eliot Noyes. Metropolis published this chart of Philip Johnson's many tentacles. Charles Eames even doodled one of his own. They are a quick & pseudo-scientific way to make an important point: the worlds of art, design & architecture at mid-century were small, & all the players closely entwined. We think of Noguchi as a sort of Zen genius, Gordon Bunshaft as a pushy corporate pawn, but the two worked together for years. Bunshaft may have given Noguchi his best commissions, like Connecticut General, below, & even had a Noguchi at his lovely Hamptons house. Our idea of the personalities breaks down in the face of data."
isamunoguchi  eames  gordonbunshaft  modernism  networks  art  artists  design  connections  philipjohnson  architecture  designobserver  alexandercalder  constantinbrancusi  johncage  fridakahlo  buckminsterfuller  florenceknoll  stuartdavis  louiskahn  richardneutra  crosspollination  hermanmiller  georgenelson  alexandralange  from delicious
december 2010 by robertogreco
Utopia London [via: http://www.cityofsound.com/blog/2010/11/utopia-london.html
"There was a time when London united around the vision of a better future. A group of young idealists were fusing science and art to build an egalitarian city. This documentary is their story."
architecture  london  urbanism  utopia  history  film  cities  culture  documentary  modernism  idealism  urban  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
The city is a hypertext
"cognitive scientists have actually begun empirically verifying Simmel's armchair psychology. & whenever I read anything about web rewiring our brains, foretelling immanent disaster, I've always thought, geez, people—we live in cities! Our species has evolved to survive in every climate & environment on dry land. Our brains can handle it!

But I thought of this again when a 2008 Wilson Quarterly article about planner/engineer Hans Monderman, titled "The Traffic Guru," popped up in Twitter. (I can't even remember where it came from. Who knows why older writing just begins to recirculate again? Without warning, it speaks to us more, or differently.)…

In other words, information overload, & the substitution of knowledge for wisdom. Sound familiar?

I'll just say I remain unconvinced. We've largely gotten rid of pop-up ads, flashing banners, & <blink> tag on web. I'm sure can trim back some extra text & lights in our towns & cities. We're versatile creatures. Just give us time."
architecture  cities  timcarmody  kottke  media  perception  transportation  ubicomp  urbanism  psychology  infrastructure  technology  culture  design  environment  history  information  infooverload  adaptability  adaptation  urban  stevejobs  cars  cognition  hansmonderman  resilience  traffic  georgsimmel  1903  2008  2010  shifts  change  luddism  fear  humans  versatitlity  web  internet  online  modernism  modernity  hypertext  attention  brain  research  theory  from delicious
august 2010 by robertogreco
When Less Was More - Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.com
"The popularity of simpler living made it possible for one American developer, William Levitt, to realize the prewar dream of the European modern architects to use industrialization for housing. During the war, Levitt had become an expert in mass-producing homes for shipyard workers in Virginia. When it ended, Levitt and his sons created a prototype 750-square-foot, one-floor house—with a living room, kitchen/dining area, two small bedrooms, a bathroom and an unfinished “expansion attic”—to fit on a 60 x 100 foot lot. Set on concrete slabs like those at the shipyards, the new houses were built quickly and cheaply on a sort of assembly line, with pre-cut lumber and nails shipped from the Levitts’ factories in California...
houses  housing  modernism  architecture  design  levittown  consumption  consumerism  americandream  excess  homes  history 
july 2010 by robertogreco
Modern Architecture for the "American Century": Places: Design Observer
"3 overarching themes emerge from review of [work] that Saarinen produced over 11-year period of his architectural maturity. (1) he was committed to exploration of new building technologies & materials, & he searched constantly for ways to advance art of architecture by producing innovative formal solutions that reflected scientific & chemical discoveries. (2) he treated every architectural commission as a separate artistic problem, & sought to create an original, artistic expression of functional complexities & cultural meanings of each one; this emphasis on communication (a priority for him that was equal to the need for formal discipline & quality in design) required Saarinen to delve into popular & commercial imagery with an openmindedness & enthusiasm that few, if any, elite modern designers could—or wanted to—match. (3) Saarinen clearly imagined his buildings as inhabited & animated spaces, & he thus focused on circulation, framing, & the sensual experiences of clients."
eerosaarinen  architecture  design  modernism 
june 2010 by robertogreco
Today We Collect Nothing | varnelis.net
"We will need at least a decade to absorb the excess housing currently in the market...Mobility will rise, but homes will become less the spaces of self-realization that they were...& more shells to be filled temporarily, with only a few, highly-intelligent objects in one's possession...Is this an end condition to architecture? Maybe. But when hasn't architecture been in an end condition?...But maybe there are other possibilities? It strikes me that architects are missing a major opportunity here. All of this is very similar to what the Eameses were up to when they moved away from construction to media. They built the best house of the century but architecture couldn't hold their attention. It was too slow. Instead, they turned to media. Today's media are more spatial than film ever could be. Hertzian space—and the interface to it—is the new frontier. Architects should be sure not miss out."
neo-nomads  nomads  mobility  modernism  eames  architecture  kazysvarnelis  housing  housingbubble  realestate  future  reynerbanham  stevejobs  postdisciplinary  design  glvo  cv  unschooling  deschooling  gamechanging  change 
march 2010 by robertogreco
American Vintage House Styles - A brief history of middle-class American residential architecture from 1900 to 1960
"So many wonderful home styles evolved during the first half of the 20th century, it seems like a good idea to put them into some kind of context. This following is not intended to be comprehensive ... it's just an outline of the many styles and some of our thoughts about them."
homes  housing  us  history  20thcentury  architecture  design  modernism  craftsman  progressiveera  simplicitymovement  simplicity  trends  via:britta 
february 2010 by robertogreco
University of Cambridge: Beyond Modernist Masters [via: http://archinect.com/news/article.php?id=95732_0_24_0_C]
"A book which challenges traditional views about the nature and future of Latin American architecture has been written by Cambridge architect and lecturer Felipe Hernández.
books  architecture  design  latinamerica  albertokalach  giancarlomazzanti  alejandroaravena  chile  mexico  colombia  modernism  modern 
february 2010 by robertogreco
Unhappy Hipsters
for the record
hipsters  humor  minimalism  modern  lifestyle  modernism  architecture  photography  culture  design  dwell  tumblr  blogs  photos  fashion  fun  satire 
february 2010 by robertogreco
Crow Island School - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Crow Island School is an elementary school significant for its architecture. It was a collaboration between Larry Perkins and Eero Saarinen.[3] It currently serves kindergarten through fourth grade students.[4]
eerosaarinen  schools  schooldesign  modernism  architecture  design  landmarks  crowislandschool  illinois  smallschools 
february 2010 by robertogreco
Abitare » Special School – Modular School
"Giancarlo Mazzanti’s design for the Gerardo Molina High School in the outskirts of Bogotá is more of a piece with traditional modernist school design in Latin America, with the important difference that his interest in the social aspects of architecture has led to substantial changes to the general design of the building."
giancarlomazzanti  schools  schooldesign  colombia  bogotá  education  architecture  design  lcproject  tcsnmy  modernism 
january 2010 by robertogreco
Mid-century modern San Diego - a set on Flickr
"Shots of architectural treasures from the mid-20th century around my home town."
sandiego  lajolla  california  socal  architecture  design  photography  flickr  homes  modernism 
january 2010 by robertogreco
Ken Kellogg - Yen Home
"With views to the Pacific Ocean this home has three levels that wind down and around a light-giving landscaped core. Situated on the north slope of a hill viewed from Scenic Drive, south of the University of California in La Jolla, the roof is designed with integral solar water heated panels. This home is also designed with a long, curved, textured concrete wall on the carport side for maintenance, sound, privacy, and protection from misguided vehicles. The raised floors act as horizontal shear panels allowing the posts to cantilever through to the roof for resistance of seismic forces permitting 100% windows for views where other homes are obstructed mostly by walls. Laminated wood beams also serve as mullions for the windows around the landscape core, project up, over, and roll far outside, in a web of roof beams creating the feeling of outside being inside to the ends of various cantilevered roofs. ..."
lajolla  sandiego  modernism  homes  kenkellogg  yenhome  deisgn  architecture  organic 
january 2010 by robertogreco
Arts & Architecture Magazine
"On this website you will find selected projects from issues of the magazine 1945 through 1967. The internet publication of A&A is made possible by Benedikt Taschen and his eponymous publishing house, which is reissuing the first ten years in book form in the Fall of 2008.
artsandarchitecturemagazine  art  arts  architecture  losangeles  history  modernism  design  magazines  1940s  1950s  1960s  casestudyhomes 
november 2009 by robertogreco
Modern San Diego Dot Com - Rudolph Schindler
"Pueblo Ribera Courts
rudolphschindler  lajolla  sandiego  architecture  modernism 
august 2009 by robertogreco
San Diego Modenism Historic Context Statement [.pdf]
"...describes the background of social and economic history, development patterns, and artistic and cultural trends that informed the
2007  sandiego  modernism  history  design  architecture  culture  filetype:pdf  media:document 
august 2009 by robertogreco
Architecture - Kisho Kurokawa’s Future Vision, Banished to Past - NYTimes.com [video here: http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/9/view/6972/kurokawas-capsule-tower-demolition.html]
"Founded by a loose-knit group of architects at end of 50s, Metabolist movement sought to create flexible urban models for a rapidly changing society. Floating cities. Cities inspired by oil platforms. Buildings that resembled strands of DNA. Such proposals reflected Japan’s transformation from a rural to modern society...also reflected more universal trends, like social dislocation & fragmentation of traditional family, influencing generations of architects from London to Moscow...project’s lasting importance has more to do with structural innovations & how they reflect Metabolists’ views on evolution of cities. Each of the concrete capsules was assembled in a factory, including details like carpeting & bathroom fixtures...then shipped to site & bolted, one by one, onto concrete & steel cores that housed building’s elevators, stairs & mechanical systems...became a symbol of Japan’s technological ambitions, as well as of the increasingly nomadic existence of the white-collar worker."
architecture  japan  1950s  technology  structures  nakagincapsuletower  design  prefab  modular  tokyo  society  mobility  neo-nomads  nomads  cities  urban  urbanism  modernism  metabolists 
july 2009 by robertogreco
Koenig's Case Study House No. 22 as home - Los Angeles Times
"The CA Boom contemporary design show this weekend will include shuttle tours of the home, still considered by many the archetypal 20th century Southern California house. Show impresario Charles Trotter says the "aha" moment for attendees will be when they learn the extent to which Buck Stahl worked with Pierre Koenig "in this masterpiece of modern architecture.""
losangeles  architecture  modernism  modern  pierrekoenig  casestudy  casestudyhomes  design  homes  history 
june 2009 by robertogreco
Beauty and Desecration by Roger Scruton, City Journal Spring 2009
"Art increasingly aimed to disturb, subvert, or transgress moral certainties, and it was not beauty but originality—however achieved and at whatever moral cost—that won the prizes."
art  beauty  aesthetics  modernism  modern  philosophy  originality  culture 
june 2009 by robertogreco
Archinect : Features : Working out of the Box: Thumb [designed the "Ring Roads of the World" poster, "Ryan McGinness Works" and "Everything Must Move" books]
"Robert Walters...really inspiring...died-in-the-wool Modernist...survey course...focused a lot on 20th century...presented architecture in larger context of design & culture...looked at Bauhaus typography, Futurist manifestoes, Beuys' sculpture alongside the built work of Mies, Marinetti's drawings & projects like Berlin Free University...very visual approach with side-by-side slide comparisons...sort of broad thinking appealed to me...Studio courses & work culture they promoted, really appealed to me too...long hours in studio...M Arch degree...very strong conceptual bent to Rice...influence of Bruce Mau & Sanford Kwinter who collaborated at Rice for 2-3 years...involvement in school was a sort of experiment to see how design thinking could dismantle & reassemble typical seminar/studio formats. Sometimes these experiments were more/less successful, but there was a huge amount of risk-taking. I still like the idea "nothing ventured, nothing gained" that they worked under..."
robertwalters  thumb  rice  design  graphics  books  brucemau  sanfordkwinter  futurists  typography  josephbeuys  bauhaus  modernism  interdisciplinary  crossdisciplinary  risktaking  architecture  bookdesign  posters  miesvanderrohe  marinetti  berlinfreeuniversity 
june 2009 by robertogreco
The Mid-Century Modernist: “The Incredibles” Mid-Century Ideal
"The home of Bob and Helen Parr in “The Incredibles” is one of the finest examples of mid-century modernism in all of animated cinema. Thanks to Pixar’s skilled artists and miraculous CGI, every detail in the architecture to the furniture to the decor can be an idealized depiction of an American suburban residence in the ’60s. Cheers to production designer Lou Romano and art director Ralph Eggleston for giving fans of this style so much eye candy."
via:cityofsound  pixar  theincredibles  design  architecture  modernism  homes  interiors  animation  film 
june 2009 by robertogreco
Photographer Captures L.A.'s Vintage Homes : NPR
"Shulman's photo captures the iconic Los Angeles of our dreams — the glittering, slightly scary, edge-of-the-continent feel of the future. In LA Magazine, Mary Melton writes that the photographer "gave Los Angeles its best self, and then exported its mythology to the world.""
losangeles  architecture  photography  juliusshulman  palmsprings  sandiego  modernism 
march 2009 by robertogreco
Modern San Diego
sandiego  california  architecture  art  modernism  modern  interiors  design 
february 2009 by robertogreco
Portland's 11xDesign Home Tour - Dwell Blog - dwell.com
"It’s not every local homes tour that merits attention beyond a city’s borders. But the 11xDesign tour, scheduled for February 21, featuring some of Portland’s most inspired contemporary residential design, is not a traditional home tour. ... s the city has become infused with new talent, a small group of promising and accomplished designer-developers have banded together in a hybrid of traditional architectural or development practice. Small firms and sole practitioners here like Path Architecture, Atelier Waechter, and Building Arts Workshop still operate as individual businesses, and even compete for buyers. But they share research, marketing and design ideas; they’ve become a community."
portland  oregon  homes  housing  architecture  design  events  cascadia  community  cooperative  development  crisis  housingbubble  hometours  collective  architects  modernism 
february 2009 by robertogreco
Star Wars: A New Heap - Triple Canopy: Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Death Star.
"30 years ago, American film audiences pressed low in their seats as a massive white wedge of machine parts passed overhead. With release of Star Wars, smooth, silvery flying saucers that had dominated postwar sci-fi became embarrassing reminders of obsolete vision of future...film’s visual program was departure from saucers & occasional capsules writ large that sci-fi audiences had grown accustomed to, but its colorless symmetrical ships should have been recognizable to at least a small portion of its audience—those familiar with contemporary art."... "30 years after...strange chimpanzee crossed another threshold. For first time in 5500 years of building cities, more of humanity now lives in them than in rural settlements. In the coming years there will be countless master plans for new mega-cities in Africa, Asia & South America. We can only hope that these plans will be drawn by disciples of Jane Jacobs, students of Robert Morris, admirers of Robert Smithson & fans of Star Wars."

[via: http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/12/the_used_future.php AND http://www.kottke.org/08/12/star-wars-a-new-heap ]
design  art  culture  architecture  history  writing  film  reading  minimalism  criticism  starwars  aesthetics  sciencefiction  scifi  robertsmithson  georgelucas  robertmorris  janejacobs  modernism  future  cities  urbanism  critique 
december 2008 by robertogreco
Mute magazine - Culture and politics after the net
"Was modernism complicit with colonialism, and did the struggle for decolonisation also entail a targeting of imperial modernist architecture? Mark Crinson visits the exhibition In the Desert of Modernity to see if the charge will stick" exhibition site: http://www.hkw.de/en/programm2008/wueste_der_moderne/_wueste_der_moderne/projekt-detail_wueste.php
modernism  colonialism  architecture  design  politics  history  urban  exhibition 
november 2008 by robertogreco
things magazine: Magical realms and children's books
"the journey into past memories is frequently marred with disappointment, and unsurprisingly, it was a shock to revisit the house in adulthood - and be surprised by the small scale, the harshness of the house's appearance, the newly-built houses that filled the garden and the neatly manicured flower beds. But although revisiting the spaces created within children's books appears to be a similarly risky journey, books retain their personal voice and sense of intimate scale ... Sadly, it becomes increasingly apparent that as we grow older, the physical spaces we held dear as children have become integrated with our everyday, mundane existences. Transgressions become limited by laws and rules and spaces become property, with onerous implications of trespass and theft. Perhaps only children's literature provides us with a satisfying journey back into a murky past clouded with the knowledge of subsequent experience, for now we know that rules were not made to be broken."
books  children  space  memory  architecture  storytelling  thingsmagazine  magicalrealms  childrenliterature  glvo  casestudyhomes  losangeles  socal  modernism  design  childhood 
november 2008 by robertogreco
3quarksdaily - On the hysteria of partial disorder: A short rant
"Accepting a certain kind of disorder and natural decay are paramount to good design, particularly in architecture, and it is the concern of an ever-decreasing number of designers. It leads to the kind of buildings that age with grace and evolve with time—not those whose illusion is so easily shattered. It’s sad to see that such obvious and accurate criticisms such as Tati’s, articulated fifty years ago, have fallen on such deaf ears."
architecture  design  modernism  beausage  decay  perfectionism  wabi-sabi 
october 2008 by robertogreco
Click opera - Ikea "discovers postmodernism"
"The irony is that Ikea is abandoning the clarity of the Modernist aesthetic just as the art world is rediscovering it, and embracing post-modernism just when some of us are getting thoroughly sick of it."
ikea  modernism  postmodernism  design  art  trends  furniture  architecture 
august 2008 by robertogreco
Flickr: bruno.nihon's Photostream
via: http://jeansnow.net/2008/08/05/tokyo-homes/
architecture  photography  japan  tokyo  flickr  images  homes  housing  modern  modernism 
august 2008 by robertogreco
Lafayette Park, Detroit - a set on Flickr
"Detroit's Mies van der Rohe Residential District in Lafayette Park was constructed between 1956 and 1963. Mies Van der Rohe's work consists of three international style apartment towers and 186 one and two-story townhouses. The facades of all these buildings are noted for their walls of glass which integrate the interior and exterior spaces. Lafayette Park boasts the largest collection of Mies van der Rohe architecture in the world."
architecture  photography  detroit  miesvanderrohe  modernism  design  neighborhoods 
august 2008 by robertogreco
cityofsound: Lyons House, Sydney
"indicated value of client who knew what he wanted in terms of function...good fortune in meeting sympathetic architect at top of his craft...house faces inwards, with pool a form of courtyard - one side left open with view through trees to blue of bay beyond...more interested in...way building would perform....functional element to architecture. "As a machine"...As well as the Japanese influence, it’s also easy to correlate this space with promise of modernism...great open spaces w/out visible means of support...Peter Blake commented that Boyd’s houses were often “almost invisible from outside...isolationist suburban plot has done more harm than good. However...even with its back turned on audience like Miles Davis, this house still gives more back to this street than any of the houses surrounding it....examples of those everyday craftsmen of earlier age, when ability to design, build & repair physical material seemed widespread, useful & valued"
danhill  cityofsound  modernism  architects  architecture  design  homes  australia  sydney  melbourne  robinboyd 
august 2008 by robertogreco
Juan Freire - From the Analogue Commons to the New Hybrid Public Spaces | Technophobiac News [also posted: http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2008/05/juan-freire.php]
"Juan Freire is one of the very very few people who keep track of what is written in the field of ubiquitous computing, free software and technology but who would also hang around with media art curators and mingle with the hackers and the urbanists"
architecture  cities  future  play  theory  ubicomp  via:cityofsound  opensource  software  technology  mediart  hacking  urbanism  urban  juanfreire  commons  public  space  society  futurism  environment  sustainability  activism  resources  sociology  economics  government  systems  law  patents  regulation  freedom  anticommons  larrylessig  innovation  creativecommons  cc  capitalism  modernism  postmodernism  remkoolhaas  christopheralexander  junkspace  non-space  advertising  shopping  janejacobs  growth  wealth  well-being  stephendownes  social  art  diy  make  situationist  security  control  internet 
june 2008 by robertogreco
Breaking the Modernist Mold
"Asked to name 20th-century Finnish architect who practiced humanistic version of modernism, design aficionados would say Aalto...may be harder pressed to respond...Husband-and-wife designers Raili & Reima Pietilä forged their own path through modernism.
finland  modernism  architecture  design 
april 2008 by robertogreco
New Statesman - Modernity and its discontents. J G Ballard has never staked out a political position. But his fiction foresaw a world in which television images of fame and death were to become all-powerful
"In Ballard's view, societies are composed of fictions, whose lack of substance is brought home in extreme situations. Much of his work concerns solitary, marooned individuals who see society not as a source of support but as an encumbering irrelevance."
jgballard  modernism  sciencefiction  scifi  writing  future  philosophy  politics  economics  society  scarcity  wealth 
january 2008 by robertogreco
Click opera - Before and after bling I understand. But "during bling"? That's just a blip.
"We are at our happiest when we are absorbed in what we are doing; the most useful way of regarding happiness is, to borrow a phrase of Clive James’s, as “a by-product of absorption.”""
postmaterialism  consumption  materialism  happiness  japan  environment  momus  unproduct  sustainability  consumerism  consumer  design  jeansnow  slow  magazines  society  culture  modernism  postmodernism  philosophy  social  connectedness  community 
january 2008 by robertogreco
Ballardian: the World of J.G. Ballard » ‘Seeing everything makes you sad’
"Modernism brings out the dark drives that slumber in us. It reserves no place for the unexplainable or the mysterious – and for precisely that reason causes a return to barbarism."
modernism  depression  jgballard  society  psychology  mystery  religion  barbarism  human  philosophy  via:adamgreenfield 
december 2007 by robertogreco
Kosmograd: 121 images of Mies
"At auction house Jeschke, Hauff & Auvermann in Berlin, on November 13th 2007 is an auction of 123 photographs from the prewar ouevre of Mies van der Rohe."
architecture  photography  miesvanderrohe  modernism  history 
november 2007 by robertogreco
Arkitip™ | Intelligence | Julius Shulman: Modernism Rediscovered, 3 Vols.
love the photo of Albert Frey's North Shore Beach and Yacht Club at the Salton Sea
architecture  photography  design  california  modernism  books 
october 2007 by robertogreco
Dream Anatomy: Gallery: Fritz Kahn: Man as Industrial Palace
"Kahn’s modernist visualization of the digestive and respiratory system as "industrial palace," really a chemical plant, was conceived in a period when the German chemical industry was the world’s most advanced."
anatomy  visualization  illustration  infodesign  industry  medicine  design  history  art  body  human  modernism 
september 2007 by robertogreco
Orange County Museum of Art: Birth of the Cool: California Art, Design, and Culture at Midcentury
"is one of the most ambitious exhibitions ever organized on this seminal period, encompassing the painting, architecture, furniture design...graphic arts, film, and music that launched midcentury modernism in California and established LA as a major Ameri
losangeles  modernism  art  design  architecture  film  music  exhibits  culture  furniture  graphics 
september 2007 by robertogreco
The Photographic Memory of Julius Shulman
"The legendary image-maker talks about the Case Study Houses and the real roots of green design."
juliusshulman  photography  architecture  design  modernism  casestudyhomes  losangeles  green  sustainability  environment 
september 2007 by robertogreco
Making Sense of Marcel Duchamp
art  artists  duchamp  history  graphic  portfolio  modernism  modern  multimedia  design  culture  timelines 
august 2007 by robertogreco
PS Modcom - Albert Frey
albertfrey  modernism  modern  architecture  design 
july 2007 by robertogreco
Forever Eames - Los Angeles Times
"A hundred years ago, a Modernist icon was born. Charles Eames went on to craft the new California home with wife Ray. Their 1949 house is the blueprint for 21st century L.A. living."
eames  losangeles  modernism  design  architecture 
june 2007 by robertogreco
L.A. Obscura: The Architectural Photography of Julius Shulman
architecture  neutra  losangeles  modernism  photography  juliusshulman  design 
june 2007 by robertogreco
From Africa to Queens Waterfront, a Modernist Gem for Sale to the Highest Bidder - New York Times
"Tomorrow, the Maison Tropicale...is being opened to the public for preview in Long Island City."
prouve  architecture  design  france  tropics  modernism  prefab  photography  homes  housing 
may 2007 by robertogreco
Space and Culture: Play Time
"Jacques Tati’s 1967 Playtime depicts an urban enclave of International-Style architecture, ubiquitous technology, commodified encounters, and alienated people that manages, somehow, to result in a comedic romance in which folks learn to find their way
architecture  technology  film  urban  work  modernism  urbanism  society  fiction  tati  cities 
march 2007 by robertogreco
ASMARA
"Built almost entirely in the 1930s by the Italians, who transformed it into a hotbed of radical architectural innovation, Asmara has one of the highest concentrations of Modernist architecture anywhere in the world."
africa  architecture  asmara  etitrea  modernism  rationalism  design  books  photography 
february 2007 by robertogreco
ArchiAfrika
"City of Dreams: A documentary about the rationalist architecture of Asmara, the capital of Eritrea, by Edward Scott and Ruby Ofori (2005)."
eritrea  asmara  africa  architecture  modernism  rationalism  film  documentary  design 
february 2007 by robertogreco
Eritrea In Picture
asmara  eritrea  africa  photography  modernism  rationalism  architecture  design 
february 2007 by robertogreco
The Ecstasy of Influence (Harpers.org)
"Today, when we can eat Tex-Mex with chopsticks while listening to reggae and watching a YouTube rebroadcast of the Berlin Wall's fall—i.e., when damn near everything presents itself as familiar—it's not a surprise that some of today's most ambitious art is going about trying to make the familiar strange. In so doing, in reimagining what human life might truly be like over there across the chasms of illusion, mediation, demographics, marketing, imago, and appearance, artists are paradoxically trying to restore what's taken for “real” to three whole dimensions, to reconstruct a univocally round world out of disparate streams of flat sights."
toread  plagiarism  creativecommons  writing  literature  modernism  culture  remix  reuse  content  copyright  collaboration  citation  teaching  popculture  democracy  creativity  creative  criticism  mashup  media  music  news  online  originality  libraries  ethics  research  science  reading  property 
february 2007 by robertogreco
FELIPE ASSADI _ARCHITECT_SANTIAGO_CHILE
chile  modernism  design  architecture  housing  homes 
december 2006 by robertogreco
UCLA Hammer Museum: Jean Prouvé
"A prefabricated metal house constructed by French designer Jean Prouvé, known as the Tropical House"
prefab  architecture  housing  prouve  homes  tropics  africa  modernism 
november 2006 by robertogreco
BLDGBLOG: Utopian Typography
"Utopia, pictured above, is a "digital typeface that portrays the mixture between the modernist architecture of Oscar Niemeyer and informal occupation of the urban space that shapes major Brazilian cities." In other words, all the letters look like buildi
architecture  design  modernism  utopia  brasil  niemeyer  typeface  fonts 
november 2006 by robertogreco
houston mod - preserving our modern legacy
architecture  modern  modernism  rice  houston  design  homes  schools  universities 
november 2006 by robertogreco
What We Value | Metropolis Magazine
"In fact the Rudolph design is now barely recognizable. But, the old school’s ­advocates say, the wounds can be healed and the building brought back to teach a vital lesson of connections between people, architecture, and nature."
architecture  design  schools  schooldesign  modern  modernism  sustainability  climate  environment 
november 2006 by robertogreco
greg.org: the making of: Modernism: Any Color As Long As It's White
"How did modern architecture become white?"
architecture  art  modernism  photography  color  white 
august 2006 by robertogreco
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