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Recc'ing this book on Twitter got a lot of interesting pushback and argumentation which is how you know we're onto something
Anyway this is a truly excellent study evaluating the failures of the modern architecture legacy specifically for large public spaces and housing projects, written lucidly so anyone can understand. Found through one of Paul Rand's old syllabi for design students. Buy em up so we can canonize
Feb 8, 2024
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Shortly after moving to New York I read (and re-read) Rem Koolhaas’ Delirious New York. He wrote it as a retroactive manifesto for the city that needed one and didn’t have one, but to me it reads like this really poetic and at times existential critique of the absurdity of NYC. The scale, the numbers and statistics, the unprecedented “grid”, why the city is the way it is, what lie beneath, and so on. Dave and I work in historic building restoration and getting to see the intricate inner-workings of how these old wooden structures are built is both deeply fascinating and horrifying.
Dec 11, 2023
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buildings are sentient and evil MF, if ykyk. Associated by a tangent only but there’s a great essay by Kenneth Frampton (towards critical regionalism) about what postmodern architecture is reg. the flattening and fracturing of deconstructionism and monoculturalism.
Jan 16, 2025
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https://archis.org/volume/smooth-city-is-the-new-urban/
oldie but new to me
Mar 12, 2024
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Unbelievably good jazz tracks I got hip to from obsessively listening to the STL public jazz radio station 90.7 KWMU-2. Always nice to find something with sub 5k listens on Spotify. Go to "Red Apple Sweet" and "The Brite Side".
Feb 6, 2024
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Now that the Red Wheelbarrow memes are extinct in the wild you can enjoy some real gems like "Peace On Earth" and "Danse Russe"
Look up some reading of his as well, I mean live performances, and he just SAYS the words in a way I cannot comprehend, no accents pauses or nothing he just SAYS it like it's always been
Feb 10, 2024
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It's the reason for the season (of wooing ladies) (and brotherly love)
Feb 11, 2024