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Well, it’s been eight years, why not come back to Tumblr? If I’m right, the 2020s will be the era of Internet subcultures. Tumblr is going to have Activitypub soon, which means it will interact with Mastodon where I am @[email protected] … and yes, I am blogging again at http://varnelis.net
Kazys Varnelis
Get your free copy of the #netlab's #newcityreader and #symtactics game at the #UnevenGrowth show at #MoMA, opens Saturday.
Playing the final version of Symtactics for the first time. #UnevenGrowth (at highland avenue montclair nj)
Cooper Union will officially start charging its undergraduates tuition, after the Board of Trustees rejected a 54-page report compiled by a Working Group of alumni, staff, students and trustees that outlined a plan to keep the school free.
In a statement yesterday, the Board of Trustees announced they had voted against the Working Group's report [pdf], which, among other things, suggested the school reduce faculty's salary expenses, sell the school's sole resident hall and slash the president's salary. The report, which was submitted to the Trustees last month, offers a sobering look at Cooper Union's already lean amenities, but those who worked on it hoped it would be a last ditch effort to keep a school founded on the principle of free education from rejecting that fundamental purpose. "If the vote goes one way, a new, lean, careful Cooper Union will tiptoe forward, tuition-free," Kevin Slavin, a Cooper Union alumnus and one of the Board's 23 Trustees, wrote on Thursday. "If it goes the other way, all of that will disappear. Not just the free tuition, but everything that was built on it. In its place we’ll find a tragic fraud. A joke. A zombie."
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Banksy, astute architecture critic.
"Today’s piece was going to be an op-ed column in the New York Times. But they declined to publish what I supplied. Which was this…”
via http://banksy.co.uk/
Well, I suppose it's better than when I'm expected to contribute my own money to get a project for which I'm not paid realized, but this piece by Tim Kreider rings very true. Â
Milgram
A Machine That Makes The Land Pay
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In his famed statement on the skyscraper as a machine to make the land pay, Cass Gilbert was not so much speaking of the magic of the skyscraper but rather of the immense value of land in the metropolitan city core.
On Saturday July 20th Strava athletes covered 4,890,000 miles in over 326,000 combined hours. To get a look at what all that riding looks like [Paul Mach] built the Saturday on Strava Heatmap, a visual on all those miles, broken down by hour.
Floor plans for the Villa Virginia, Stockbridge
This is rather nuts to find on Tumblr as I grew up here.
Before you come to the conclusion that I'm filthy rich, my father bought the place for very little as it was near ruin. As a retired artist, he spent a decade fixing it. And my spent a decade, I mean spend a decade of hard work. It was, well, crazy to live in a place like this. It took 3 days to cut the grass every two weeks.
In the winter, we could only afford to heat the wing at the top left of the lower level. The rest stayed between 45 and 50 degrees (Fahrenheit not Celsius). I lived in the sewing room on the second floor and we used two electric space heaters to keep that warm. It didn't work very well. I think that's why I still get bronchitis often and I can't handle cold rooms in the winter.Â
My parents sold it when my father started his museum in Vilnius. It's amazing how little you can get for a place like this if your kitchen is essentially still from 1917 and most of the bathrooms don't work. The present owners ripped off the original red tile roof and put on a slate roof even though my father had it registered as a National Historic Landmark. I'm afraid to think of what has happened inside.
Perhaps this is why bricks and mortar bookstores are having trouble staying in business?
Thank you, @bookculture.
In China, a "nail house" is a home whose resident refuses to leave in order to make way for new construction. Builders have to elaborately construct around it, often leaving behind an eyesore so awesome that it's almost a sculpture. Here are some of the most famous examples of nail houses.
Modernism for Sale (near NYC)
My neighbor Joyce just sent me this listing for a Deck House for sale down the street. It's in Montclair, a train town 45 minutes from Manhattan by train (30 minutes by bus or car in off hours). I can't say enough about Montclair. It has good schools, it is diverse in race and income, there are few chain stores, it is community and neighborhood oriented, there are huge numbers of parks, and the food is good. The house is on Highland and you're on the highest point west of Portugal (not counting midtown's skyscrapers which may or may not be visible from this house), sort of the Hollywood Hills of the east.
There aren't many Deck Houses left that haven't changed hands and there's not a lot of modernism near the city.
http://emailrpt.gsmls.com/public/show_public_report_rpt.do?report=clientfull&Id=85723821_496080
It needs some restoration, but we can go over that. The house is on a half acre of land.
Contact her if you're interested (you can also ask me for more info).
July 16, 2013
Dear Rem Koolhaas,
we have never met, or so it seems. We are a non-relevant group. We are about half of the humanity, maybe more. We are also about 20% of our and your profession, maybe less. We are architects, yet female.
We have seen you signed the retroactive campaign about Denise Scott-Brown’s spoliation of the Pritzker Prize. That made us feel better about the fact that again, a white male in his late 60′s has been given power, this time over the Venice Bienniale. We thought you might help. Maybe not.
We have scrutinized the 2012 edition by your predecessor David Chipperfield and found the number of female participants appallingly low. We though you could do better. But then, someone said you appointed Hans-Ulrich Obrist for the Swiss Pavilion.* **
“Women are the ghosts of modern architecture, everywhere present, crucial, but strangely invisible,” says Colomina. Please make sure we are not side-lined, invisible, marginalized once again at the 2014 Architecture Biennale.
We would like you, for next year’s edition, to say F*ck Old White Men and give space to women in architecture: the talented, unjustly ignored architects, that happened to be female.
Through positive action and representation, we believe gender equality to be fundamental and hope you do too.
Hopelessly yours,
Die Architektin (Verein fĂĽr)
Something happened to this photograph of a model I made in first year architecture studio at Cornell during 27 years of storage.
