Category: representation
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Parasitic Architectures
A new blog that I stumbled upon is Tomorrow’s Thoughts Today, which is geared towards ‘Exploring the Consequences of Fantastic, Perverse, and Underrated Urbanisms” – which at least gets a nod for original mission statement. After some headaches related to the 3 narrow-column format – I did find a number of interesting posts. One that…
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Another Utopia: Victory City™
There are many diverse versions of utopia that have been proposed over the years… from Wright’s Broadacre City, Howards Garden Cities, Callenbach’s Ecotopia, Soleri’s Arcosanti and Corbu’s La Ville Radieuse (to name a few) – a long history of attempts to synthesize urban perfection have been attempted. Most of these ideas are either merely thought-exercises…
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Green Shrouds…
It’s been a bit of time since I’ve referenced some of both the definitions of Veg.itecture and some of the issues of implementation… perhaps a review is in order – or at least a refresher tied to some of the discussions regarding the projects that appear here on L+U. There’s the definition and the specific…
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Tree Art
A couple of recent projects take a different look at plants – particularly by juxtaposing the natural with the cultural – providing a way of thinking about urban nature – or our relationship with our ecosystems, in new ways. Firstly, via Dezeen: “Dutch architects NL created a forest of 100 trees planted in shopping trolleys…
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Veg.itectural Mash Note #44
Well, alas I’d like to think my love is more one-dimensional than just swooning over the work of James Corner. Austria, for one, sounds lovely this time of year, i hear. Vegetated architecture on the other hand, is my one true love … and here’s a real mash note to those vertical, vegetated, and very…
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The Notorious H2O
Blue is the New Green – runs the headlines in last weeks NY Times blog, and not a moment too soon for that. Allison Arieff give an explanation: “A range of alternative energy technologies are available to us today; there is, however, no substitute for water. But there are new ways of thinking about water…
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Thinking Out of the Box, Pt. 2
Following the big box threads of the previous post, some of the speculative work of Lewis Tsurumaki Lewis (LTL) offers another viewpoint towards the idea of a tranformed development archetype. :: image via LTL I think half of my interest in LTL is the concepts, the other half is the interesting graphic techniques – many…
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Thinking Out of the Box, Pt. 1
The ubiquitous big box store is a staple of modern life, which, along with it’s associated expansive parking areas eat up a good portion of our cities. The collections of big box stores, known as power centers, exacerbate this phenonmenon by multiplying the footprint and impact of the store uses – creating significant gashes in…
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Corner Redux
It seems that James Corner is basking in the glow of design press recently… with another feature in New York Magazine that investigates (in depth) the evolution and potential of Fresh Kills Park. While I have yet to see the movie, Wall-E Park by Robert Sullivan alludes to the idealogy implicit in the movie and…
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Materiality and Light
There are a few different ways of approaching the use of materials in landscape installations. While there exists a finite amount of materials (albeit growing due to our ability to co-opt and produce more products), there is no limitations to the diversity of applications and combinations. While landscape architecture is getting more experimental, I tend…