New Monuments

KAM workshops 2013

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Walter Pichler, Pits In Which To Sit (1970)

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(Un)City – (Un)Real State of the (Un)Known assembles a collection of emblematic buildings and urban situations found in the city of Brussels. Shaped as an imaginary territory, it brings together past, present and prospective projects: the Brussel's Palace of Justice, the Cinquantenaire Monument, Victor Horta's Maison du Peuple, le Pavillon du Bonheur designed by architects V+, The National Theatre, an utopian project of Luc Deleu and Glaverbel headquarter in La Hulpe, among others.

via WBA

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Architecture parlante (“speaking architecture”) is architecture that explains its own function or identity. The phrase was originally associated with Claude Nicolas Ledoux, and was extended to other Paris-trained architects of the Revolutionary period, Étienne-Louis Boullée, and Jean-Jacques Lequeu.

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Simon Ungers, Silent Architecture (Source: SFMOMA)

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New Monument for Malevich's Lost Grave

A competition to select a design for a monument to Kazimir Malevich will be conducted before the end of the year, Moscow region culture minister Oleg Rozhnov told RIA Novosti on Tuesday, and the completed monument will be erected near the presumed site of his grave within the Romashkovo housing complex in the Odinstovsky district of Moscow region.

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A narrow street in athens shown on the map was left unnamed. Gregorios Pharmakis was the name given to this street and became the name of a plural person.

Via: Gregorios Pharmakis

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Recommendation for a monument Robert Venturi, Learning from Las Vegas, 1972

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andreasangelidakis: druidic & functional

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The Voyager Golden Records are phonograph records which were included aboard both Voyager spacecraft, which were launched in 1977. They contain sounds and images selected to portray the diversity of life and culture on Earth, and are intended for any intelligent extraterrestrial life form, or for future humans, who may find them. The Voyager spacecraft is not heading towards any particular star, but Voyager 1 will be within 1.6 light-years of the star Gliese 445, currently in the constellation Camelopardalis, in about 40,000 years. (Via Wikipedia)

— Introduced by Ioanna Angelopoulou in Monuments of Humanity, Round table, Kamworkshops 2013

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Ettore Sottsass Jr, “An Altar (Very Private): For the Meditation of Personal Memories, with Drawers: In Which to Conserve Leaves and Pedals of Long-Gone Springs Gathered with Nanda Along the Banks of the River Love", 1969, National Museum, Stockholm

via  Arqueología del Futuro

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Cyprien Gaillard's The Recovery of Discovery is a 72,000 bottle pyramid of beer that will be gradually consumed in KW Berlin.

Via Colossal

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At the Beaux-Arts Ball of 1931, at least two dozen architects came dressed as buildings they had designed. They included, left to right, A. Stewart Walker as the Fuller Building, Leonard Schultze as the Waldorf-Astoria, Ely Jacques Kahn as the Squibb Building, William Van Alen as the Chrysler Building, Ralph Walker as the Wall Street Building and Joseph Freedlander as the Museum of the City of New York. (Via NY Times)

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Hans Hollein, Alles Ist Architektur, Bau (1/2), 1968

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Soviet Workers with a model of planned housing c1930

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Robert A.M. Stern, Late Entries to the Chicago Tribune Tower Competition, Chicago, Illinois, 1980.

"Our project for the new Chicago Tribune Tower takes its primary reference Adolf Loos’ entry in the original 1921-1922 competition, and attempts to marry that project to the Miesian prism. To build a classical tower out of glass, we have used architectural elements rooted in the culture of the past though executed in the technology of the present."

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Kamworkshops2013 New Monuments: Final reviews and exhibition.  More documentation here.

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SPEAKING ARCHITECTURE, NEW MONUMENTS for KAM WORKSHOPS 2013.