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Priorities in Conserving Community Murals
Excerpt from Priorities in Conserving Community Murals. By Timothy W. Drescher. 2003Compilation of papers 2004. The J. Paul Getty...
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The urban sprawl of Istanbul
From http://www.51n4e.com/publication/test-site-istanbul-iabr-2012
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What is Biophilic Urbanism?
Image from biophiliccities.org¨For Professor Heerwagen, biophilia is best defined by the amazing biologist E.O. Wilson, who came up with the actual concept. It relates to the “innate emotional...
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Un mapa psicodélico de Buenos Aires. Por Franz Ackermann
Fotos y texto compartidos desde la nota de Ana María Battistozzi: Después de caminar por las calles de la ciudad durante días, el alemán Franz Ackermann pintó en el Faena Arts Center un mural que...
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Frank Gehry´s Museo de la Biodiversidad in Panama
The design looks to me like Gehry´s first works. This is the first of Gehry´s designs for Latin America.I´m sharing the pictures from Clarin Arquitectura and the article by Juan Décima. Read about...
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When graphic designs shows architectural concepts
I´m sharing these minimalist pictures of book covers from Luis Maram´s blog. I was delighted to see, just a simple word meant so much, and could describe one of the main features of the city in the...
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A church or a landscape installation?
I´m sharing all these pictures by Filip Dujardin from archdaily.com because I´m absolutely delighted with this installation. Though, I´m still thinking if it is just landscape art or it could be a...
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What architects can do after a natural disaster?
Furnishings on the streets of Red Hook, which suffered extensive flooding. Architezer.comI am sharing an excerpt from an article in Architizer.com, just to pick up up the attention of architects and/or...
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Some urban photographs by Michael Wolf
From the series "Transparent City" I've just discovered photographer Michael Wolf's web page and I'm still enjoying his great urban pictures. Most of what I'm showing is from Hong Kong.From his web...
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An homage to the memory of a building. Corten apartments
In a previous post about the Getty Villa in Malibu, I was complaining about the reconstruction of an ancient building, though I loved visiting the Villa and enjoyed the day, the building is fake when...
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Urban photographs of long camera exposures
German photographer Michael Wesely has spent decades working on techniques for extremely long camera exposures — usually between two to three years. In the mid-1990s, he began using the technique to...
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Urban visual contamination
There´s always a concern about urban visual contamination in cities. But these examples are excellent to illustrate the issue.From http://busan.for91days.com/tag/esl/¨The Streets of Daeyeon-Dong. A...
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Some scenes from "House of Voices." The big bathroom
This weekend I've watched the French-Romanian 2004 movie "House of voices," (Saint Ange in Europe), and I loved its photography. It is pretty similar to "Orphanage" but in my opinion, this one is...
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Future homesites: landscape art or the image of a decaying economy?
Future Homesites of “The Falls” at Lake Las Vegas, Henderson, Nevada (2011). [Photo by Michael Light]Photographer Michael Light has spent the past decade exploring the development of the American West...
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Huntington Harbor by Vera Makianich
These pictures were taken by my daughter, Vera Makianich, at Huntington Beach Harbor.The houses are decorated with Christmas lights, also the ships. Every year there´s a contest for the best Christmas...
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One of the earliest urbanization: Provadia-Solnitsata (5500-4200 BC)
In a Bulgarian mound, archaeologists have found perhaps Europe's earliest massive fortifications. Photograph by V. Nikolov, Bulgarian National Institute of Archaeology/EPAResearchers announced last...
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School shootings and modular classrooms
Needless to say how bad I feel about the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut. Yesterday, we picked up our youngest girl from the High school and she told us her version of the...
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Holiday lights in the cities
Brussels, Belgium Photograph by Thierry Roge, Reuters/Corbis During Plaisirs d’Hiver, dramatically lit buildings and piped-in music lift spirits in the historic Grand Place. At the Christmas market,...
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What to do with a building that brings us sad memories?
This blog has a label of ¨collective memories.¨ I´ve always been affected by the subject in relationship with buildings. A public building, a house, a temple, etc, can be converted into a memorial,...
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Selection of architecture posters
The architecture posters above are my selection from google images. I didn´t add any reference but anybody can send me an email to include the authorship.The following three are shared from typography...
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