#rudofsky

[hiddenarchitecture]

Bernard Rudofsky, J.A. Coderch - Casa Rudofsky - Cortijo de San Rafael, Malaga. Spain - 1968

[picard-schreckensberger]

Architecture Without Architects

Bernard Rudofsky

1964

[petrolgrade]

Bernard Rudofsky Illustration for Are Clothes Modern? An Essay on Contemporary Apparel Austrian-American, 1947 Gelatin silver print

[less-ismore]

Bernard Rudofsky, A tree in La Casa (Rudofsky House), Frigiliana, Málaga,  1968-1972.

[sixtensason]

...for the street is not an area but a volume. It cannot exist in the vacuum; it is inseparable from its environment. In other words, it is no better than the company of houses it keeps. The street is the matrix: urban chamber, fertile soil, and breeding ground. Its viability depends as much on the right kind of architecture as on the right kind of humanity.

Bernard RUDOFSKY (1905–88) in “Streets for People: a primer for Americans”

[antidizionariodellamoda]

Pockets and buttons

[…] The elegant exterior pockets of today which would be ruined if put to practical use are chiefly a symbol of past function, i.e., the pocket in which something was actually carried, while in American men's and women's service uniforms the employment of fake pockets and useless buttons is compulsory. […] What glass beads are to the savage, buttons and pockets are to the civilized.

From MoMa press release “TRADITION CHALLENGED IN MUSEUM OF MODERN ART EXHIBITION, ARE CLOTHES MODERN?” by Bernard Rudofsky, 27 November 1944

[antidizionariodellamoda]

POCKETS AND BUTTONS

Analytical diagram of the businessman dressing. Installation at the exhibition Are Clothes Modern?, cureted by Bernard Rudofsky, New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Nov. 28 1944 - March 4 1945. Image courtesy The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles.

[sixtensason]

Bernard Rudofsky & Luigi Cosenza, Casa Oro, Posillipo / Napoli, 1934-37