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Help me. I am a 8 year old boy living in the illegitimate Yankee Capitalist regime. President Xi, our shelves are empty and we are hungry. I am asking you to liberate my state of Connecticut with your Chengdu J-20 Stealth air superiority fighters and your Dongfeng 41 Missiles.
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Residence of C. H. Wolfe, Old Stage Road, Avalon, Catalina Island. Arch. R. M. Schindler, 1929.
In Mexico a house seeks different degrees of intimacy with nature
By using typical elements of the Mexican vernacular tradition combined with local materials, the Mexican Architecture studio Rozana Montiel designs Albino Ortega House. The house unfolds in an articulated system of paths and spaces; from the most hermetic and intimate to the most open without interruption with the garden.
Shaker
“A Shaker chair, spare and elegant, will give instant and familiar visual pleasure to the eye schooled in modernist design. But like certain strains of modernist art – geometric abstraction, say – it may also be read as an ideal of order and balance, which has particular urgency in an uncentered late 20th- century world.” An excerpt from the New York Times on August 2, 1996. This is a beautiful sentiment. When all feels uncertain, unknown or “uncentered”, we turn with urgency to the traditions that ground us, to the “balance” from which we came. We set off in search of the basics, and come up to the surface with the common denominators that link us all. Design is at the mercy of this right now. And on this week of tradition making, in this time of unrest, we’re exploring a foundational tenet of American design.
Technology has offered us a multitude of hands with which to manipulate and experiment beyond our wildest dreams, but the basics – the simplest forms – remain the most appealing. Since 1776, those forms have been largely shaped by a small group of religious folks in New England known as the Shakers. Living under rigid lifestyle mandates which demanded humble work, the Shakers rejected unnecessary adornment in all of their surroundings. They believed in the principle notion of an ideal form and of honesty in materiality, which needn’t be manipulated. At the core of Shaker design was a reliance upon these things that we can all share – a simple piece of local wood, the necessity for practicality, the acceptance of natural imperfection. This is what we admire so much about the design. It is at its core democratic, it is accessible, and it offers beautiful solutions to the everyday lives of the people using the spaces.
Each image here is an example of Shaker design between the years of 1776 and 1937, at which point their community was dispersed. Each piece of furniture, bottle of medicine, or tool exemplifies the Shaker belief that form should not undermine function, but should enable it.
The following images are from the archives of The Shaker Museum in Mount Lebanon, NY and from the Metropolitan Museum Archive.
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casa mosogno ~ buchner bründler | photos © georg aerni
The Estuary Cabin built by Rupert McKelvie of Out of the Valley / @outofthevalley_ltd
High tide on the estuary, a peaceful time of day as boats drift pass on their way out to sea. The old port further upstream was known as being one of the most sheltered on the south coast, and once thrived as a result acting as a hub for shipbuilding and fishing.
The kitchen sits in the gable end of the cabin. Eeking out every bit of usable space.
Another project by Rupert — a thoughtfully appointed, timber-frame, off-grid home he built for himself — is featured in our new book. Visit cabinporn.com/inside to pre-order your copies.
Smiljan Radić, Prism House + Terrace Room ( Coinguillio, Chile)
albert kahn associates - chrysler tank arsenal, warren township, michigan, 1941
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Mühlehalde Terrace Housing by Metron
These houses are perhaps the best example of the kind of hillside housing for which the Swiss have developed a reputation for design excellence following a national strategy of building housing on steep hillsides not suitable for agriculture.
Metron (Hans Scherer, Strickler & Weber), Mühlehalde Terrace Housing, Umiken, Switzerland, 1963-1971.
Knut Hjeltnes, Bolig i Nils Lauritssons, Oslo, 1997
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Nicolas Boyer - One hundred and nineteen views without Mount Fuji
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Naumann Architektur - Renovation of a dilapidated pig-sty built in 1780 to a showroom, Germany 2003. Via, photos © Zooey Braun.
1946 - Paul Bebert, who was interned in a concentration camp for many years for being a union organiser, removes swastikas from the now liberated union building in Hamburg. [video]
