IF IT IS TO BE / IT IS UP TO ME
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
Brendan Tang / Manga Ormolu ver. 5.0-b, 2009.
That why i’m dressed neatly
Cause it’s easy and discreetly / they seek me
And when they reach me / and see me
They believe me / Completely
Visit Brendan Tang – here
An interesting house in the mountains of Chile, created by young architects Nicolás del Río and Max Núñez. Visit the dRN website – here
Zlín is the fading capital of the Bata shoe-making empire and place of this Margaret Bursa project.
She explains:
The Czech town of Zlín is the site of a social, industrial and architectural experiment begun by Tomas Bata in 1894. However, his shoe-making factories that were once the town’s driving force no longer operate and so the social and commercial structure of the town and its suburbs are in decline. Responding to the New Local Manifesto a layer of facilities is laid over and interwoven into the residential neighborhoods where seven housing typologies are afforded dual functions of work and domestic life such the House of Drink, where both production and consumption are combined.
Tear off the top, let your memory pop
its running, running, running, running away.
Margaret Bursa’s amazing and intensely colorful megastructure. Check out her website here.
once it’s done, it’s finished. and it’s not now but it was just then and it will be later. not now, just then and later. Yona Friedman, Architect.
This book from Ken Isaacs, How To Build Your Own Living Structures, 1974, and others are downloadable as PDF at the Public Collectors website. A great archiv of out-of-print publications and curious collections, led by Chicago artist Marc Fischer.
Over the book they write: “This book is a beautiful guide about how to make a variety of flexible experimental indoor interiors, storage units, and a microhouse. The microhouse is a flexible creation of architect, Ken Isaacs. The modular design is based on stacked tetrahedrons, which can be moved in and around each other providing shelter and dividing living space in a creative way. The book gives you step-by-step instructions with plans for many different versions of Isaac’s original designs interspersed with ideas about simplicity, and getting rid of our personal possessions. The book is type written and spiral round in a nice Do-It-Yourself aesthetic, and Isaacs writes in a genial manner as if he were sitting across the table from you. He muses on the philosophical meanings of surplus and uses the designs as a means of addressing life as whole; a simple place to raise a family and house extended family that has a low impact on the surrounding natural environment.”
THX
