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Casseurs flowters - La mort du disque

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CBS News:

Taken mostly by anonymous municipal workers, some of the images have appeared in publications but most were accessible only by visiting the archive offices in lower Manhattan over the past few years.

As of April 2012 the collection is available to the public at the NYC Municipal Archives website.

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Luis Barragán, Fuente de los Amantes horse ranch, Los Clubes 1966

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Pyongyang Architecture Festival, 2011

See also this Architecture Guide to Pyongyang, featured in Dwell magazine.

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Las Vegas

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a project by Harold Cooper

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Iannis Xenakis

Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001) is best known as an early composer of electronic music.  His treatise Formalized Music (1971) applies stochastic processes to music, which he realizes through computer-generated scores, elaborately drawn schematics, and rigorous mathematical calculations. Less known, but highly relevant to the development of his musical theories, are Xenakis' contributions to architecture as a student of Le Corbusier.

Xenakis emphasized that both architecture and music can be perceived from any direction, but while this notion is fundamental to architectural practice and criticism, music has largely remained limited by conventions of unidirectional orientations in space. Several of Xenakis' compositions involved experimental placements of musicians in relation to the audience, such as circular formations with the audience located in the center (see Terretektorh, 1965; Nomos Gamma, 1967; Persephassa 1969).

The following image shows the relationship between diagrams of the coda to Xenakis' piece Metastasis, 1955, and the Philips Pavillion that he designed for Expo 58, the Brussels World Fair of 1958.

This video uses a marquee to follow the final glissandi illustrated in the score:

Edgard Varèse composed and recorded an original soundscape to be played continuously inside the Philips Pavilion, in addition to light and image projections envisioned by Le Corbusier.

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A rendering of MAD Architects’ proposed project in Chongqing.

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The grid endures in Configuration Space, an App for iPad that superimposes a 3D Cartesian grid over the perceptual field. Configuration Space was developed by artist Jesse Harding.

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Archidose gives thorough coverage of a recent (March 12, 2012) discussion between Rem Koolhaas and Hans Ulrich Olbrist that took place at the New York Public Library.

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via Laura Diamond

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