subFusc

devoid of brightness or appeal

[alvareztostado]

manuel álvarezbravo: klin (1957)

[supernumeri]

[bag-of-dirt]

French civilians in Calais walk past the now boarded up recruitment office for the Waffen-SS. Calais was liberated from German occupation between 25 September 1944 and 1 October 1944 by the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division. Calais, Pas-de-Calais, France. 12 November 1944.

[subfuscous]

Lancaster aircraft by The National Archives UK on Flickr.

[b22-design]

Robert C.Metcalf

[socialistcity]

[archimodels]

© sachio otani - kojimachi project for high density courtyard dwellings - japan - 1961

[magictransistor]

[jugendzeit]

Martine Franck, Children’s Library, Clamart, France, 1965

[connerleephotography]

Industrial lofts

Conner Lee Coughenour Photography 

[neo-constructivist]

[plagiarismisnecessary]

(via neo-constructivist)

Mapping the 1981 Brixton Riots (Instrumental Drawing)

[rudygodinez]

Jean Prouve, Furniture for the Cité Universitaire in Nancy, (1931) 

The furniture shown above was created on the occasion of a competition for a new student dormitory at the Cité Universitaire in Nancy. With his workshops, Prouve emerged as one of the competitions four winners and could design one quarter of the dormitory’s furnishings. Yet, compared with the designs of the other three winners, it was evident that only Prouve’s furniture could permanently satisfy the demands.

Prouve’s task included the design of the beds, desks, bookshelves armchairs, and standard chairs. As many as sixty pieces were produced for each design. For the first time, he used wood as a building material. The supporting were bent c-shaped sections of sheet steel; in later works , section of steel piping were used. All of the furniture was conceived to require the least possible expenditure during the production phase, which applied to the elegant armchair in particular. This allowed Prouve to produce furniture that was both light and inexpensive to manufacture without forfeiting robustness. Elaborate machines were avoided. The armrests could be adjusted using simple leather straps with belt fasteners.

The seat of the armchair is relatively low. After completing his first prototypes, a few of the older employees told their boss that it took them considerable effort to raise themselves out of the armchair again. Prouve countered, “It doesn’t matter if you can’t get out of it. It’s designed for young people!” The armchair is still in production today.

[seaboch-blog]

Dünen Und Mole, by Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, 1917

[engineeringhistory]

Philo Farnsworth’s first experimental television broadcast station, circa 1930s.

[megaestructuras]

SuperStudio | Monumento Continuo [Storyboard para un film sobre el Monumento Continuo] | 1969

[rudygodinez]

Le Corbusier, Villa de Mandrot, (1931)

Built into a hillside overlooking the ocean near Toulon, the Villa Mandrot is often cited as a turning point in Le Corbusier’s style.

The framing of the natural to intensify it’s experience was Le Corbusier’s goal. As he described it: “The site offers the striking spectacle of a vast, unfolding landscape and the unexpected nature of this has been kept by walling in the principle rooms to the view and by only having one door that opens onto the veranda, from which the sudden view of the vista is like an explosion.”

[rudygodinez]

A Rudy/Godinez Curatorial Project:

Five Mushrooms

[elisebrown]

Martha Cooper