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Parrish Art Museum Watermill, NY

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Lebbeus Woods (May 31, 1940 - October 30, 2012)

"In order to talk about what we left behind in Los Angeles, we must be aware of what has gone missing. The presence of Lebbeus’s absence is large and complex, full of a wide range of projects and writings dealing with questions both ancient and completely urgent: Sarajevo, Cuba, Cooper Union, Chengdu, Lower Manhattan, San Francisco, Reggio Calabria, SCI-Arc, Berlin, Paris, Vienna..." 

Resist the Desire to Move to Los Angeles Anytime on 32BNY

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There is little room for actual subversion in architecture — the process of building can be exorbitantly slow and prone to balancing multiple exterior forces in order to convey its intent. Awarding Ban for his expedient humanitarian efforts creates a sense of architecture being a deployable action in order to alleviate demand in the face of catastrophe while glossing over his deploying the same tactics in projects like Camper’s flagship shoe store on Prince Street in Manhattan.

Method Man? Notes on Shigeru Ban's Pritzker Prize

I wrote about this year's Prtizker Prize selection for Hyperallergic.

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"32BNY: Drawing As Thought" [via 32BNY]