December 2011
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Post-Christmas reboot. Marie Calloway, self-objectivising women & the superficial reasons society uses to dismiss them: http://bit.ly/stEW5T
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Docu w. rare walkthrough footage of Alvaro Siza’s Faculty of Architecture buildings at the University of Porto: http://bit.ly/usoEjm
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Blindingly sharp performance of Jiri Kylian’s ‘Falling Angels’ by Netherlands Dance Theatre, set to Steve Reich: http://bit.ly/t6my0P
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Revisiting the basement of the interwebs. Alameda-Weehawken Burrito Tunnel & its alternate reality/imagined history: http://bit.ly/tGFHLM
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Richard Russo on bookstores and the scorched-earth capitalism of Amazon (plus all sorts of readers’ comments): http://nyti.ms/vWyY2y
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Briefly, Masha Tupitsyn on red & green - “One (green) comes from inside…and one (red) is an expression of it.” http://bit.ly/vZL9dH
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Reinhold Martin on the double bind of architecture, mediating instruments, & Arendt’s spaces of public appearance: http://bit.ly/u53w4W #ows
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Excellent exchange between @NaomiAKlein & Andrew @Revkin on the links btwn climate & ideology: http://nyti.ms/tJdVwx
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Best of visualisations and maps in 2011 - more than just pale mercator projections & brightly coloured push-pins: http://bit.ly/ruGGx3
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New post: ‘Autocorrecting Banality’ - brief read of #damnyouautocorrect through psychoanalytic lens: http://bit.ly/u0PfxR
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Also the “I Waited 10 Yrs & All I Got Was Overbudget Project Overshadowed by Banal Corporate Towers” Award: http://bit.ly/vlnW0g #WTC
Best/worst of architecture 2011 - faves include the “Pauline Kael Critical Evisceration Award”: http://bit.ly/vlnW0g via @paulgoldberger
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Some meta-comment on public art. Or something. Who knows? John Baldessari sticks $100,000 bill beside High Line: http://bit.ly/tg6MZ0
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