December 2009
2 posts
“In contrast, architects are flailing about. This doesn’t mean that job losses in...”
– On Mad Men | varnelis.net
November 2009
3 posts
Arquitectura sin Encargo | Unsolicited...
via arkinetblog.wordpress.com ‘Unsolicited Architecture’ being picked up in the Spanish speaking word. Posted via web from ARCHIS | Comment »
“‘there is no possibility of society without antagonism’”
– Chantal Mouffe
Architecture of Consequence: Dutch Designs on the...
“Sustainable food production, alternative sources of energy, the need for social cohesion in a healthy environment – these are a few of the essential issues of our time that rub shoulders in environmental planning and architectural design. That forms a tremendous potential for social renewal.
In this book twenty-five Dutch design practices with outspoken opinions present their views on an...
October 2009
25 posts
Recetas Urbanas (Urban Prescriptions)
PUBLIC DOMAIN OCCUPATION WITH SKIPS ” Santiago Cirugeda’s Recetas Urbanas (Urban Prescriptions). Cirugeda hacks the legal code. Because his home town would not authorize him to build a playground, Santiago Cirugeda obtained a dumpster permit and installed a playground that looked like a dumpster. He also built and occupied a rooftop crane that passersby believed was there only to move...
“If you design the object without the financing, you’re an academic; if you...”
– ‘How to Make Unsolicited Architecture’, Volume magazine, 2007. via rory hyde dot com blog
“We are part of a growing number of design professionals, design students, and...”
– On Social Design
Unsolicited projects as 'reflecting a generosity... →
“Much like Le Corbusier in an earlier era, Osaka architect Tadao Ando has never had qualms about creating unasked-for visionary proposals and then attempting to convince the relevant governments or landowners to implement them. … Megalomaniacal or quixotic this may well be, but it also reflects a generosity and commitment to his local environment that has turned Ando into one of the...
Norwegian Collection of Potential Architecture →
An online collection of the half-baked, the promising, the raw and the invisible architecture; projects that miscarried, went over the top, were turned down by clients or for other reasons never became realised.
“Experimental geography means practices that take on the production of space in a...”
– Trevor Paglen - Experimental Geography: From Cultural Production to the Production of Space
“Design activity and political thought are indivisible.” - Thomas Jefferson”
“To zoom out even further, are we just talking about ‘context’? To understand the...”
– Comment on mammoth - on finance
