Industrial Landscap[ing] by j bennett fitts
Henceforth I shall know
That nature ne’er deserts the wise and pure;
No plot so narrow, be but nature there,
No waste so vacant, but may well employ
Each faculty of sense, and keep the heart
Awake to love and beauty!
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Maya Hayuk - Paint Pour (2011)
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R.I.P Paolo Soleri (June 21,1919 - April 9, 2013)
Today the world has lost one of its great minds. Paolo Soleri, architect, builder, artist, writer, theorist, husband, father, born on Summer Solstice, has died at age 93….MORE
Photo Credit: 1, 2 3 4 Phil Donohue (artist on tumblr)
The Living Wall - Street Art by Nikita Nomerz
Nikita Nomerz is a graffiti/street artist from Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia. Inspired by the the places in the city, Nikita is always able to find interesting point and create lovely human faces in an hour by adding eyes and facial features.
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“Any city gets what it admires, will pay for, and, ultimately, deserves. Even when we had Penn Station, we couldn’t afford to keep it clean. We want and deserve tin-can architecture in a tinhorn culture. And we will probably be judged not by the monuments we build but by those we have destroyed.”
NYT: Farewell to Penn Station, 1963
THALIA THEATRE by GONÇALO BYRNE, ARQUITECTOS LDA., BARBAS LOPES ARQUITECTOS via Europaconcorsi
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Elevated Sports Court
Architects: Guzmán de Yarza Blache / J1 Arquitectos
Location/Year: Zaragoza, Spain / 2012
Photograph: Miguel de Guzmán
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Hector Guimard
Lyon, March 10, 1867 – New York, May 20, 1942
I have been in love with the work of this man for a long time and I didn’t know him!
I didn’t know who was the brilliant mind behind those beautiful buildings, furniture and objects. Hector Guimard was the best-known representative of the French Art Nouveau style of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Guimard was as much a designer and engineer as he was an architect, and involved himself in every aspect of his buildings.
Its critical reputation has risen since the 1960s, as many art historians have praised his architectural and decorative work, the best of it done during a relatively brief fifteen years of prolific creative activity.
Guimard, famous for designing the entrances to the Paris metro, did many more projects; he incorporated the principles of the Art Nouveau style in his works, always having shapes of plants, flowers, flowing lines and aggressive curves.
It is a shame that a large number of his buildings have been demolished, many of which he watched vanish. He left an obscure legacy marked by a disappearance of much of his work.
He made so many things that I wouldn’t have enough space to place them here and to chose them was a real pain, because I wanted all of them…
I found this amazing set on Flickr with more of his beautiful work:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dalbera/sets/72157626265472708/with/5526351583/
ohhhh!
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“Marina Abramovic and Ulay started an intense love story in the 70s, performing art out of the van they lived in. When they felt the relationship had run its course, they decided to walk the Great Wall of China, each from one end, meeting for one last big hug in the middle and never seeing each other again. at her 2010 MoMa retrospective Marina performed ‘The Artist Is Present’ as part of the show, a minute of silence with each stranger who sat in front of her. Ulay arrived without her knowing it and this is what happened.”
“En los años 70, Marina Abramovic mantuvo una intensa historia de amor con Ulay. Pasaron 5 años viviendo en una furgoneta realizando toda clase de performances. En 1988, cuando su relación ya no daba para más, decidieron recorrer la Gran Muralla China, empezando cada uno de un lado, para encontrarse en el medio, abrazarse y no volver a verse nunca más. En 2010 el MoMa de Nueva York dedicó una retrospectiva a su obra. Dentro de la misma, Marina compartía un minuto en silencio con cada extraño que se sentaba frente a ella. Ulay llegó sin que ella lo supiera, y esto fue lo que pasó”
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