L'œil à réaction

Lyon, France. "The past is never dead. It's not even past." William Faulkner.

[gibsondeis]

Asger Jorn: “The Sun is Pissing Me Off (Le soleil m’emmerde),” 1961; Oil on canvas

[jmeijide]

tower-house . comlongon castle . 15th century . scotland

[pro-to-col]

An architecture growing appendages.

Plan of Lloyd’s Building, London

[europeansculpture]

Fernand Léger dans l'atelier de Constantin Brancusi, ca. 1920

[clawmarks]

A comparative view of the five orders of architecture (Tuscan, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, Composite) - J Wilkes - 1795 - via The British Museum

[darquitectura]

Alvar Aalto, Baker House

[irenelichtensteinblog]

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Hiroshi Sugimoto, Radio City Music Hall, New York, 1978

[bluecote]

student apartments, urbino, italy giancarlo de carlo, 1963-6 (world architecture in colour)

[gregdotorg]

Alberto Giacometti, Laocoön at the Vatican Museums, 1952, ballpoint pen on notebook paper, collection Fondation Giacometti.

La Copie Laocoön d'Alberto Giacometti [greg.org]

[irenelichtensteinblog]

Stephan Thiéblemont, Al Burj . Égypte

[pintoras]

Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler (German, 1899 - 1940): Running from the village bull (1931) (via Doyle New York)

[germanpostwarmodern]

Hill House (1903-04) in Helensburgh, Scotland, by Charles Rennie Mackintosh

[wmud]

pierre genton - eglise notre-dame-de-balmont, lyon-la duchére, grance, 1964-65

[polychroniadis]

The Ghost Army, fake fleets and inflatable enemies of WW2.

[myarchitectphil]

The early modern architect Adolf Loos, who famously wrote “Ornament is a Crime,” also had a romantic streak, not unlike Carlo Mollino (see last week). In 1930 Adolf Loos completed two buildings: the (famous, urban) Müller House in Prague and the (not famous, rural) Landhaus Khuner (Khuner Villa) in Payerbach, Austria – two designs that could not be more different in appearance. While the Müller House is defined by an austere white cubic aesthetic, the Landhaus Khuner, is rustic, with log-and-stone construction sheltered under a pitched roof. The Müller House is hailed as a masterpiece of early modern architecture, while concerning the Landhaus Khuner, in contrast, there has developed only a sort of hush. We need to re-examine the Landhaus Khuner in order to embrace a broader understanding of what really constitutes architecture for today. You can visit, because today the house is a restaurant (and the colors are original).

[cultoftrash]

[mentaltimetraveller]

Hans Josephsohn