photourbanist

Filmmaker, Photographer, Educator, Urbanist

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Madelon Vriesendorp, Freud Unlimited, 1975

“According to the Financial Times, Vriesendorp paintings ‘for urban architecture are more significant than Piranesi or the film Metropolis” – Socks

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May Mourn is a site-writing which takes a selection of images from a collection of abandoned black and white photographs of modernist architectural icons, part of London’s post war social housing project, found in spring in a derelict arts and crafts house called May Morn in the capital’s green belt and pairs them with texts taken from primelocation.com advertising flats for sale in these same buildings – Jane Rendell

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Japan Story

The city is the site of a multitude of forces and desires. How are these forces manifested, inscribed on the surface of the territory? How a

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How Photogrammetry Is Changing How We Make Movies - Frame.io Insider

See how cutting-edge photogrammetry is pushing the boundaries of filmmaking, and redefining what it means to capture a scene.

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Berenice Abbott, Warehouse, Brooklyn, New York City May22, 1936

from Abbott’s series of photographs for the book Changing New York 1935-1938

more pics at New York Public Library

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Ugo La Pietra, Immersioni circa 1968, 

Strangely prescient of the 2020 lockdown 

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memory metadata

When I take a photograph of my sister and niece on my iPhone, my memory is transformed into something else. What, exactly, does my memory become, and what are the broader consequences of its transformation?

When I take a photograph of my sister and niece on my iPhone, my memory is transformed into something else. What, exactly, does my memory become, and what are the broader consequences of its transformation? – Livia Foldes

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Paul Randolph, Yale University, Art and Architecture Building, New Haven, Connecticut, Elevation (1958-64).

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Dayanita Singh, Montage

https://www.architectural-review.com/essays/cut-and-paste-dayanita-singhs-montage-series

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while borders shapeshift and are displaced from one location to another, turning and changing our perception of people and things, borders never work as they are supposed to. No border can stop all that which moves. Against the magic of the border, there is counter-magic.

The Magic of Borders - Architecture - e-flux

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The extreme militarization of Italy’s lockdown (according to the Ministry of Interior, police forces performed the stupendous figure of seven million stops in one month) has been justified with the need to discipline Italians, who, “by character” would not otherwise comply with the rules. ... The problem with conflating “social distancing” with “staying at home” is not just the underlying misunderstanding of the nature of the virus, but the fact that blame gets spatialized on public space and social life in themselves.

Staying at Home - Architecture - e-flux

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Max Headroom

"20 minutes into the future" – An interview with the original creators 

and a good (if a bit long) film essay on Max Headroom and satire

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(via https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7oeSjr83gPExzMEGxeuDkV?si=TnE0_e7tQI6H4Hrp8q8EGg)

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Photo: Laurent Kronental, José, 89, Les Damiers, Courbevoie, 2012

See more of Kronental’s work featured in the Guardian here.

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A series of three posts that report on a conversation between Nicholas Korody and Denise Scott-Brown about her thinking and research for the Las Vegas Studio. 

The Foundation

Pedagogy

Research

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FULLY AUTOMATED LUXURY QUARANTINE VS. SOLITARY CONFINEMENT We are uncomfortably adapting to psychogeographies of isolation. In course we learn new vocabulary, such as “social distancing-compliant building design.” “Quarantine” means a kind of suspended indeterminate status. It is a limbo. Days slur into weeks. The official suspicion that any one person may be a risk to the rest will continue even after the lockdown rules are relaxed. Meanwhile, our immediate habitats are defined by paranoid new relations between inside and outside. If the general quarantine lasts a very long time, some of these will become permanent. As amenities that were once known as places in the city are transformed now into apps and appliances inside the home, public space is evacuated and the “domestic” sphere becomes its own horizon.

18 Lessons of Quarantine Urbanism — Strelka Mag