Photographs from Havana Deco
by Martino Fagiuoli
December 18th, 2007
A photographic essay: Art Deco in Havana, Cuba.
Archive for the ‘Architecture’ Category
An Interview With Louis Kahn Biographer Carter Wiseman
by Paul Comstock
June 15th, 2007
“I think the most powerful common thread running through Kahn’s work was his humanity. He seems to have believed deeply in the idea that humankind is perfectible, and that architecture could play a role in that.”
Richard Lanham Discusses the “Attention Economy”
by Paul Comstock
April 3rd, 2007
“All around us we see signs of this confusion. Americans are often called a “materialistic” people and we certainly are surrounded by material possessions and revel in them. But at the same time, the “real world” of physical location seems to be evaporating before our eyes.”
An Interview With Architect Charles Jencks
by Paul Comstock
April 3rd, 2007
“Narcissism? Culture in decline? It’s the whole world. Venice was narcissistic, full of iconic buildings, and declined for 500 years, but was still the most pleasant city to live in for much of this time.”
Architecture and Modernism
by Alain de Botton
March 26th, 2007
For Le Corbusier, true, great architecture – meaning, architecture motivated by the quest for efficiency – was more likely to be found in a 40,000-kilowatt electricity turbine or a low-pressure ventilating fan. It was to these machines that his books accorded the reverential photographs which previous architectural writers had reserved for cathedrals and opera houses.
