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Awake, awake, my little boy!
Isn’t it a completely strange world Ian Miller lives in?

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Slidin’ on that oil, got me leanin’ to the side.
hittin’ switches, got me leanin’ in my ride.


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In Grosswangen (LU) hat der junge Zürcher Architekt Valentin Loewensberg ein wunderbares Haus gebaut. Es scheint in seiner unspektakulären Art so ganz und gar nicht in den Rahmen populärer Architekturentwürfe zu passen. Der erste Blick lässt uns dann auch cheape Biederkeit befürchten.
Aber dieser Eindruck täuscht. Die Einfachheit dieses Hauses hat nichts mit der uninteressanten Einfältigkeit zu tun, die man sonst so kennt aus Ortschaften wie eben Grosswangen. Bei diesem Haus müssen wir nach Amerika weiterreisen, um den ersten Eindruck zu dechiffrieren. Denn Loewensberg greift auf ganz urtypische Elemente des amerikanischen Wohnens zurück. So lassen uns die Eingeschossigkeit des Hauses und Teile der geschlossenen Fassade an die Einfachheit eines Trailers denken.


Schauen wir uns den Grundriss des Hauses etwas genauer an, entdecken wir eine gedeckte Eingangssituation, die es dem Bewohner erlaubt, trockenen Fusses vom Auto ins Haus zu gelangen.

Motelartig zieht der Architekt den Dachvorsprung vom Einstellplatz des Autors zum Hauseingang und darüber hinaus bis zum Ende der Hauswand.

Der Wohnungsgrundriss selbst ist klassisch kleinteilig. Keine Loftfantasien also. Mit schlau platzierten Türen können jedoch schöne Raumabfolgen geschaffen werden, welche gut die Intimität der einzelnen Räume ergänzt. Und mich unweigerlich an das Kings Road House von Rudolf Schindler in Los Angeles denken lässt.

Auch auf der Frontseite zieht Loewensberg den Bezug zu Amerika weiter: Treten wir hinaus auf den gedeckten Balkon, stehen wir plötzlich auf der Terrasse einer Südstaatenvilla mit klassischen Säulen.

Alles klar?

Natürlich kann man sich nun fragen, weshalb in aller Welt diese Dinge genau in Grosswangen zitiert werden sollen. Vielleicht wirklich deshalb, um der biederen Einfachheit der Architektur eines Schweizer Dorfes eine andere Variante entgegenzustellen. Simple ist sie ebenfalls, aber gleichzeitig eben auch mutig, eigenständige, grosszügig und absolut stimmig.

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Ease your mind staring at skylines from rooftops
Graffiti artistes who use walls for marquees
The latest technique no other place get as deep
Icons that teach that we all act unique
We go back to b-boys, breakdancing, breakbeats
and on that note we say PEACE.

No doubt

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It’s the whale I’d like to be.

I got a theory on that.

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The winding stream.


And with each beam.

the same old dream.

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The lights go out
I’m falling
I am falling
Safely to the ground

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Ornamental Transfigurations
Two Chapels for St. Catherine in Malta and Istambul, 2008


by Yousef Al-Mehdari

Yousef Al-Mehdari is an architectural designer with both Maltese and Kuwaiti background. He studied architecture at the University of Greenwich before gaining his Diploma and Masters degree from the Bartlett School of Architecture UCL. He worked for CRAB (Peter Cook and Gavin Robotham) in London and is currently a project architect at LASSA Architects in Brussels.

Body Baroque with 3-D Printer

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Photographer Christoph Morlinghaus‘s work is fantastic.

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Electric Dress, 1957

by Atsuko Tanaka

out of action:

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Nowhere Near But Now Here

and as special gift today (26.05.2010) the »Insel«,
1968, foodstuffs, including yoghurt, and screw and wire on blue panel,
covered in plaster and left to rot.

by Dieter Roth

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Markus Wetzel, I would like to see the Island as a Wolf, 2007

thx again for this great picture hanging at our home.


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A method for those who sign up.
A system for those who sign in.

Jens Reinert, Tunnel, 2007

Banksy, free art

Kristin Posehn, Replicant, 2005

Gaijn Fujita, Ride or Die, 2005

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The end of the ruling classes
The end of sleepless nights
The end of taking orders
The end of wasted lives
the end… the ending fight

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In a room with a window in the corner I found truth



Look out for more – great TenArquitectos, Mexico & New York City

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The balloonist is stranded.

The Archigram Archival Project is finally online and ready to for browsing.

The archive “makes the work of the seminal architectural group Archigram available free online for public viewing and academic study.”

The newly launched site includes more than 200 projects; “this comprises projects done by members before they met, the Archigram magazines (grouped together at no. 100), the projects done by Archigram as a group between 1961 and 1974, and some later projects.”

There are also brief biographies of each participating member of the collaborative group:

Warren Chalk

Peter Cook

Dennis Crompton

David Greene

Ron Herron

and Michael Webb.

Beautiful and mindblowing.

THX.

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Itself, by itself, solely, ONE everlasting, and single. Plato


from: Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe
illustrated by fabulous
Harry Clarke (Ireland, 1889 – 1931)


Harry Clarke

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“The Tell-Tale Heart is a wonderful animated short film of 1953 based on Edgar Allan Poe short-story. The story told by a mad man has a dark visual with a perfect work of narration by James Mason. It is a UPA Production and was the first cartoon to be X-rated (adults only) in Great Britain under the British Board of Film Censors classification system.”

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AROUND A ROUND




I said the joint was rocking
goin’ round and round
yeah, reeling and a rocking
what a crazy sound
and they never stopped rocking
’til the moon went down

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Lady Sovereign’s Skatedeck for Zoo York.

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Gerrit van Bakel, artist & designer (1943 – 1984), unknown guest at documenta 7.

He wears the sun. And he wear it well.





check out the great website – here

–> Interview

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Raimund Johann Abraham,

he the fantastic iconoclastic architect from Austria, who had been teaching at the Southern California Institute of Architecture since 2003, died in a car accident in downtown Los Angeles. (March 4, 2010)

Are the architectural drawings by Mr. Abraham art or architecture or a hybrid of the two?
This is a misleading question. It takes us into either-or debates which really have nothing to do with his work, drawn or otherwise. In my view his drawings are essentially philosophical, in that they struggle with questions of existence and its meaning. What makes them architecture—or, I should say, Abraham’s architecture–is that they create clear relationships between abstract, tectonic space and form and human experiences and conditions that comprise our existence. As he has said on many occasions, “architecture must confront a program,” which I take to mean a program for inhabiting particular spaces and their contexts.
(Answer by Lebbeus Woods to a question asked by a journalist about the work of Raimund Abraham)

Austrian Cultural Forum New York. Design competition won, 1992; building completed 2002:

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No sleep before i die

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Totally worn out.


second shuttle picture is from one of my favourite cartoonist.

Ron Cobb

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Got my flashlight
two by four
necessary precaution
way down deep
in the baroque hole
lost my way
lost my soul
is this my grave?

Callum Morton’s cave. Tilburg, Netherlands

what the hell is that inside?
Find out more.

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Jan TooropO grave, where is thy Victory, 1892

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Robo Chair by great Luca Nichetto for OFFECCT

and another interesting chair by espacio creativo culdesac

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Ooohoohoooh through the roof, underground
Ooohoohoooh through the roof, underground


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Of our elaborate plans, the end
Of everything that stands, the end
No safety or surprise, the end


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To the centre of the city where all roads meet, waiting for you.
Will Insley, Utopist and Architect, New York

who knows more about Will?

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that can’t be crossed
that can’t be climbed

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IF IT IS TO BE / IT IS UP TO ME

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Dankeschön Mr. HaindlYou always have to make your own fun.


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the land of sleeping things.

again the moved Dan McPharlin

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This is your thing.

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i guess silence isn’t really profound.

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From the egg into the flower

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The Measure (from Words)

I cannot
move backward
or forward.
I am caught

in the time
as measure.
What we think
of we think of—

of no other reason
we think than
just to think—
each for himself.

from: The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945-1975

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It’s a New Year, I’m glad to be here
It’s the first spring, So let’s sing.

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Warren Du Preez & Nick Thornton Jones

website – here