Archissistic

architecture & narcissism

[andazzi]

(via HANGHAR – a f a s i a)

[notadeathinthefamily]

DEATH AND STATUES

During the war, in October 1941, the pro-Nazi Vichy government decreed that statues "without artistic or historical importance" could be torn to pieces by the Germans in order to reuse the metal.

In December, the photographer Pierre Jahan, taking considerable risks, photographed them, piled up in a courtyard in Paris, in the 12th arrondissement, ready to leave for the foundries.

Jean Cocteau was so enthusiastic about those photographs that he decided to publish them in a book, writing the text himself.

Just over a hundred pages, the illustrated volume was published at the end of the war, in 1946, and republished several times. It is one of the most beautiful, saddest and most engaging photographic books ever made, just look at the photos of the dying alligators or the discouragement of the young orphan of the other statues of his family. I don't think it has ever been published in other countries. It can be found online at decent prices. There is also a first edition with a dedication by Cocteau for 1,200 euros.

[forgottenflickr]

2009

[deseopolis]

Garden Tower House. Cremorne, Australia. 2022. Studio Bright

[jayemturrell]

put me in the little tikes electric chair for little tikes serial murder

[filmaticbby]

cities skylines 2 is gonna make me spiral out of control

[andazzi]

(via Unnamed House - Picture gallery 1)

[nobrashfestivity]

Koshiro Onchi, Open air Music Hall, 1930

Woodblock print

[andazzi]

(via Leibal — House for an Actress)

[sosbrutalism]

The construction of the University of Shiraz was based on structure and teaching concept similar to a US campus. This was realized by the American architect Minoru Yamasaki. The idea of architecture as a machine was intended as a symbol for the modernization of a society. 

Minoru Yamasaki / Modam (Mohammad Reza Moghtader): Pahlavi University (today: Shiraz University), Shiraz, Iran, 1960–1979

https://sosbrutalism.org/cms/18861237 

Photos: © Hamid Reza Bani 2017 / © Bernhard Wanker 2019 

[alexislegallo]

Erik Gunnar Asplund, Woodland Chapel, 1920

[ofcharacter]

House - Andrew Power

[newed]

Seattle Freeway Park

Lawrence Halprin & Associates 

[scavengedluxury]

University dormitory gateway, Gödöllő, 1971. From the Budapest municipal photography company archive. 

[idleminds]

Sweet Bean あん (2015)

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