M. I. A. O

utopia is somewhere.

[collectiondarchitectures]

T-A-O, Split Courtyard, House, Beijing, China, 2014 

[kasth-deactivated20180321]

Manufacturing #17, Deda Chicken Processing Plant, Dehul City, Jilin Province, (2005) - Edward Burtynsky

99 Cent Diptych (1999) - Andreas Gursky

99 Cent Diptych II (2001) - Andreas Gursky

Supermarket Shopper (1970) - Duane Hanson

Yiwu Survey (“Installation”) (2006) - Liu Jianhua

Untitled XIII, Mexico, (2002) - Andreas Gursky

[drawingarchitecture]

Léonor Mégrot-Desallais, 'Pavillons' (via)

[archiveofaffinities]

Zvi Hecker, Ramot Housing, Jerusalem, Israel, 1972-1978

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[glassstudio]

Vitra Fire Station Painting | Zaha Hadid

[ethel-baraona]

Hellenikon Metropolitan Park by DOGMA + Elia Zenghelis

[z3w]

[archiveofaffinities]

[z3w]

archiveofaffinities:

Sachio Otani, Kojimachi Project for High Density Courtyard Dwellings, 1961

[architectureofdoom]

Previ (Proyecto Experimental de Vivienda), Lima, Peru, 1960s: an experimental district collectively designed by a generation of avant-garde architects.

With contributions by Aldo van Eyck, Atelier 5, Charles Correa, Alexis Josic, Georges Candilis, Shadrach Woods, James Stirling, Kisho Kurokawa, Kiyonori Kikutake etc.

"Every family in PREVI has a story about their house. They may not know the architect’s name, but they know which international team designed it. It’s common to refer to the different typologies by nation: so and so lives in one of the Dutch houses, or in a French house. It’s a form of orientation. But more than that, the families within each typological quadrant have a sense of solidarity. During the football World Cup (in which Peru rarely features) they will support the country whose house they live in. Sometimes they even organise their own tournaments, on the pitch by the gate"

[loveyousomat]

S. Woods / J. Pfeufer: Urbanism is everybody’s business, Milan, 1968

[archiveofaffinities]

[danieldaou]

archiveofaffinities: Candilis, Josic, and Woods, Shopping Center, Plan, Toulouse, France, 1963

[nickkahler]

Moiré Pattern

"In physics, a Moiré Pattern is an interference pattern created, for example, when two grids are overlaid at an angle, or when they have slightly different mesh sizes. The term originates from moiré, a type of textile, traditionally of silk but now also of cotton or synthetic fiber, with a rippled or ‘watered’ appearance. The history of the word moiré is complicated. The earliest agreed origin is the Arabic mukhayyar (مُخَيَّر in Arabic, which means chosen), a cloth made from the wool of the Angora goat, from khayyara (خيّر in Arabic), ‘he chose’ (hence ‘a choice, or excellent, cloth’). It has also been suggested that the Arabic word was formed from the Latin marmoreus, meaning ‘like marble’. By 1570 the word had found its way into English as mohair. This was then adopted into French as mouaire, and by 1660 (in the writings of Samuel Pepys) it had been adopted back into English as moire or moyre. Meanwhile the French mouaire had mutated into a verb, moirer, meaning ‘to produce a watered textile by weaving or pressing’, which by 1823 had spawned the adjective moiré. Moire (pronounced “mwar”) and moiré (pronounced “mwar-ay”) are now used somewhat interchangeably in English, though moire is more often used for the cloth and moiré for the pattern.”

[scrapboard]

Stan Allen, Logistical Activities Zone, Barcelona (1996) User’s manual: Stitch map

(via n4-171)

[occupyarchitecture]

Stan Allen, Piranesi’s “Campo Marzio”: An Experimental Design (1989). Axonometric projections of a series of monumental figures from the zone outside the walls

[heathwest]

Rem Koolhaas and Madelon Vriesendorp The City of the Captive Globe Project, New York, 1972 Gouache and graphite on paper 31.8 x 44.1 cm

[archiveofaffinities]

Junzo Sakakura, Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura, Japan, 1951

[yama-bato]

Herbert Bayer   [+]

In search of times past

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