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I.M. Pei, legendary designer of cultural and institutional architecture, designed his first-ever museum in downtown Syracuse, New York. Constructed in 1968, the 60,000-square-foot Everson Museum of Art was a brutalist building that broke the mold on traditional museum design.
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Vicky Chan, founder of the design firm Avoid Obvious Architects, has a sideline in teaching architecture and design skills to schoolchildren. He’s instructed thousands of kids over the past 15 years, starting when he was a freshman at the Pratt Institute in New York City and taught low-income students at a local elementary school. After he moved back to his native Hong Kong, he continued teaching architecture weekly through his voluntary organization, Architecture for Children.
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Arching rooftop walkway and garden tops West Kowloon Station in Hong Kong
People are invited to climb the curved, plant-covered roof of the new train station in West Kowloon, Hong Kong, designed by Andrew Bromberg at Aedas.
West Kowloon Station officially opened in September 2018. It is the new terminus of the 88-mile-long Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong high-speed rail service (XRL), which connects to the National network all the way to Beijing, a 15,500 mile journey away.
Waterfront Art Gallery Lacime Architects
The project is located on the west bank of Xianghu Lake, Nanchang City. The large-scale block form of the new town is markedly different from the “natural” structure of the old town.Fuhe River that flows south from the “Tengwangge Delta” tries to preserve the landscape characteristics of this city, and turns the bridge into a major element in the urban design.The project intends to obtain evidence from the morphological memory of this contemporary city, and remains in the frontier of the cultural landscape.
Dimitris Ladopoulos wanted to create an algorithm that would allow him to produce different random geometric patterns based on a rectangle.
This fundraiser is a gateway to reach my goal by alleviating the financial burden — and uncertainty I face as a DACA student — to pay fo
Please help an austistic, NB Latina with DACA get her education by paying for college. I want to avoid student loans and falling into debt as much as possible.
It would mean the world to me if you can help me. Please share.
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“There is something very wrong with what we have made ourselves. We have become a civilization based on work — not even ‘productive work’ but work as an end and meaning in itself. We have come to believe that men and women who do not work harder than they wish at jobs they do not particularly enjoy are bad people unworthy of love, care, or assistance from their communities. It is as if we have collectively acquiesced to our own enslavement. The main political reaction to our awareness that half the time we are engaged in utterly meaningless or even counterproductive activities — usually under the orders of a person we dislike — is to rankle with resentment over the fact there might be others out there who are not in the same trap. As a result, hatred, resentment, and suspicion have become the glue that holds society together. This is a disastrous state of affairs.”
-David Graeber
I kind of can’t believe that I’m seeing “cost of living” appealed to as a primary cause for international wage differences in the year 2018, but I am so here goes:
Prices of goods do differ between global North and South but the difference in wages dwarfs the difference in apparent “cost of living.” Typically, the wage difference is at least an order of magnitude greater. For instance, according to the World Bank, average price levels in Bangladesh tend to be around 2.5 times lower than in the United States. However, the lowest paid workers in Bangladesh make about 70 times less than minimum wage workers in the u.s. Even textile workers, who have comparatively “high” wages and employment protections, make around 10 times less than u.s. minimum wage workers. The ostensibly “lower cost of living” makes little difference. In other words if the poorest Bangladeshi’s $0.10 per hour is really more like $0.25 per hour, there’s almost no difference to the analysis of wage differentials.
Someone mentioned the relative price of the Big Mac. It’s not a bad measure because the Big Mac is nearly the same commodity everywhere, so noting price differences is a decent yardpost for how average price levels are affected by region.
However, looking at price levels separately from wages is actually a poor measure of “cost of living,” at least from a communist perspective.
The price of a Big Mac in South Asia tends to be around $2.50 whereas on average it’s about $5 in the u.s. But going back to Bangladeshi textile workers, if they make $0.40 per hour, they must work for 300 minutes to afford a Big Mac. A u.s. worker making $7.50 an hour can buy a Big Mac in 40 minutes. Bangladeshi textile workers, again among the comparatively “privileged” workers in the country, must work about 10 times longer than *minimum wage* workers in the u.s. to acquire the same purchasing power. What takes the poorest in the u.s. a year to attain takes Bangladeshi workers 10 years or more.
So when looking at it from the perspective of how much of their lives workers have to expend to attain basic necessities, the cost of living for Southern laborers is actually *higher*, again by an order of magnitude at least. Then, when you take into account the fact that certain commodities like oil have the same price everywhere, and that electronics (increasingly a necessary component of day to day life) actually have higher prices in the Third World (not just relative to wages but in absolute terms) there’s really no argument to be made that wage differences are explicable or justifiable based on “cost of living.” In fact to say otherwise is to repeat the propaganda of imperialist development theorists that the Southern workers “really don’t have it that bad.”
On that point, when supposed leftists lay no particular significance to the greatly higher purchasing power of amerikans and other First World workers, they imply that capitalism is actually capable of providing the kind of lifestyle that First Worlders expect (e.g. enough food to live, clean water in large supply, personal vehicles, etc.) to most people. And although the First World mode of life does not preclude the possibility of suffering, for workers who are literally starving and wasting away due to extreme stress, the relative niceties enjoyed by workers in the North would be quite an improvement, even worth dying for. But the reality is that capitalism actually can’t provide the First World lifestyle to everyone or even most people, and the only reason some people can have the kind of access to resources that amerikans do is because most of the rest of the world doesn’t. The massive disparities in income and wealth between North and South are a product of imperialist parasitism and all other causes are tiny footnotes in comparison. When the white left attributes this gulf to other factors like “cost of living” or “productivity,” not only are they just factually incorrect but they tacitly normalize the relations of imperialism. These notions are poisonous both at home, where they justify social chauvinism and narrowly nationalistic politics, and also abroad where they create immense confusion about the nature of the imperialist system.
Marina City, mixed-use residential/commercial building complex in Chicago, Illinois Built 1964 By Bertrand Goldberg #brutgroup photo via #isc20c https://www.instagram.com/p/BncSrl4hvxU/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1vli1gn8qky5m
Rainy days are good for reflection #BrutalistDC https://ift.tt/2xWWw8G
Chapel of the Holy Cross in Arizona, Sedona, 1956 Architect: Richard Hein #brutgroup photo via #isc20c https://www.instagram.com/p/BnudVhsFBRM/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1rzntsv8qaufh
Strong coffer contrast at @hirshhorn - one of the D.C. stops in the new #MidCenturyModern Architecture Travel Guide, out today from @phaidon https://ift.tt/2RAhjYz
10 tricks you didn’t know you could do with your food.
By Blossom
The internet went from showing food recipe videos to alchemy in less than a decade. There’s going to be a quick video on how to make the philosopher’s stone from tomato sauce next week.
I've been seeing your Cuba posts but I don't know much about Cuba, can you suggest some basic reading on it? Might be an excuse for me to get better at Spanish too 😊
Of course! Im gonna be posting books, articles, and videos to help explain what Cuba stands for and why it should be supported.
Fidel Castro, Biografia a dos voces (x)
Communist Ruled Cuba Holds First Transgender Mass (x)
Cuba Says NO to Homophobia and Transphobia (x)
Representative Government in Socialist Cuba (x)
Cuban Democracy Fact Sheet (x)
How to Visit a Socialist Country (x)
Cuba Begins State-Sponsoring Sex-Change Operations (x)
(From this point onwards tumblr desktop screwed up the link embedding function no matter what I do so I’m just gonna paste the links directly)
The World’s Most Sustainable Country: What? Cuba? (http://www.dailyimpact.net/2015/02/09/the-worlds-most-sustainable-country-what-cuba/)
Cuba: Defending Socialism, Resisting Imperialism (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxFPZaurHZA )
20 Reasons To Support Cuba ( http://www.invent-the-future.org/2013/07/20-reasons-to-support-cuba/ )
Cuba: Champion of Children’s Rights (https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Cuba-a-Champion-of-Childrens-Rights-UNICEF-20180312-0011.html )
How Democracy Works in Cuba ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aMsi-A56ds&feature=youtu.be )
Cuba Reaches Lowest Infant Mortality Rate in History ( http://en.granma.cu/cuba/2018-01-02/cuba-reaches-lowest-infant-mortality-rate-in-its-history-four-per-1000-live-births )
Here’s an entire Google Doc a comrade made about other important successes and history about Cuba ( https://docs.google.com/document/d/1D0OtBnA7O82GagELPirOWnBbs8ZxxSWdLdsPGG1t7Ac/edit )
PSA: Halloween is pretty much here and it only takes on second to send a sick child in the hospital a Spook-o-gram. The best part about this is that $1 gets donated to CHLA’s Helping Hand fund each time you send one out. So let’s help some kids have a spectacular Halloween by sending them spook-o-grams and helping cause!!
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