GUNS & SYNTHS

so good at being in trouble // so bad at being in love

[021c]

Caroline Tompkins

[kissedbythevoid]

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[placcidjpg]

mermaid skin cowboy

[ironpour]

[timbllr]

via @WeHeartIt

[prettycolors]

#3bc0c4

[moonelk]

[driflloon]

sade: no ordinary love (1992)

[jamabushi]

Compute, 1994

[niktipolos]

“Women learn to veil things. Who likes to look straight at real passion?”

— Anne Carson, excerpt of “Why I Wrote Two Plays about Phaidra, by Euripides”, in Grief Lessons (tr. by Anne Carson) (via antigonick)

[savagedefectives]

Durga Chew-Bose

[michael-the-iii]

[archiveofaffinities]

Myron Goldfinger, Marcus House, Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts, 1978

[diassaparchitecture]

Foire internationale de Dakar

Copyright Manuel Herz

African Modernism - Architecture of Independence

Research and publication project

publication forthcoming in Febuary 2015

with an exhibition at Vitra Design Museum Gallery

supported by the ETH Zürich

together with

Ingrid Schröder

Julia Jamrozik

Hans Focketyn

During the late 1950s and the early 1960s most of the countries of Central and Subsaharan Africa gained their independence. Architecture became one of the principal means with which the young nations expressed their national identity. Parliament buildings, central banks, stadiums, conference centers, universities and independence memorials were constructed, often featuring heroic and daring designs. Modernistic, and often futuristic architecture mirrored the aspirations and forward looking spirit that was dominant at that time. A coinciding period of economical boom made elaborate construction methods possible while the tropical climate allowed for an architecture that blended the inside and outside, focused on form and the expression of materiality without the need for insulation or heating. The architecture in the capital cities of countries such as Kenya, Ivory Coast, Zambia, Ghana or Senegal still represents some of the best examples of 60s and 70s architecture. Nevertheless it has received little attention and still remains to be ‘rediscovered’. The research project aims at documenting this architectural oeuvre for the first time in an extensive and exhaustive scope. Publication and exhibition forthcoming in 2014.

[scavengedluxury]

Brutalist lifeguard perch. Torremolinos, February 2019.

[architectureofdoom]

Following the 2011 tsunami the Japanese government began building seawalls Here: Ofunato Bay, Iwate prefecture and Kesennuma Bay, Miyagi prefecture.