Archive for March, 2004

Cities on the move & Cedric Price

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2004

Via things magazine, Hans-Ulbrich Obrist’s Cities on the move.
An interesting article based on the 1999 exhibition about cities on the move - or cities that change and adapt to new contexts - and quite a bit on architect Cedric Price.
I will be in Montreal in a couple of weeks, and plan to visit the […]

And some wonder why people live in the land of ice and snow…

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2004

Artists and architects converged in Kemi and Rovaniemi, Lapland to design architectonic structures out of snow and ice for The Snow Show.
This first-of-a-kind exhibition of contemporary environmental art replaces the familiar, permanent materials of art and architecture with the unusual, ephemeral element of water in its frozen forms. The project examines collaboration and materiality by […]

Cities made from desires and fears

Monday, March 1st, 2004

Italo Calvino as Urbanologist by Howard Becker
Interesting little article on what urban sociologists can learn from Calvino’s Invisible Cities.

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