italian television used to have a good taste in stage design

this is tomorrow 1956_ [2011]

"I remember going to the 'This is Tomorrow' exhibition in 1956, a long, long time ago. But if that show were to be mounted now I think it wold be as fresh and as revolutionary in many ways. I think you have to give Pop painters every credit for what they did. They liberated the external environment, perceived it at first glance. But now I think we need to look at the external environment at second glance and look beyond the worlds of consumer goods and mass iconography. [...] To go to the Whitechapel in 1956 and to see my experience of the real world being commented upon, played back to me with all kinds of ironic gestures, that was tremendously exciting. I could really recreate the future, that was the future, not the past."  

J.G.Ballard 

http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions/this-is-tomorrow

a short tale of revolution

        

In 1974 a group of students from AA school founded the "Architects Revolutionary Council" (ARC) calling for a destruction of the RIBA (regarded as responsible for the malaise of architecture and cities), and the establishment of "an international movement towards community architecture".  The ARC's philosophy was based around the belief that should immediately cease working "only for a rich powerful minority or the bureaucratic dictatorship of Central and Local Governments and offer their skills and services for the local community". 

sweet things in the courtyard

[all pictures taken in private residential courtyards in Hamburg and Lubeck]

Master of collapse

Minoru Yamasaki_World Trade Center, New York 1970-71 [collapsed on 11 Sep 2001 under terrorist attack]

Minoru Yamasaki_Pruitt-Igoe housing project, St. Louis 1954 [demolished for its unacceptable conditions in 1972]

http://www.pruitt-igoe.com/

merry xmas!!!

christmas tree by UGO architecture + design 

RSA Animate - Changing Education Paradigms