Nowhere Woman by Zelda Bronstein
A review of Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy
The women featured in advertisements for the new economy, familiar to American television viewers and magazine readers, are neither nannies nor maids, and certainly not “sex workers,” but stylish executives wielding credit cards and cell phones as they […]
Via AKMA - who asks “could any modern state tolerate the existence of a distinct, mobile, self-determined people within their borders?” - comes Jerusalem Syndrome: Bedouin Issues photo-essay
Much of the land around Beer Sheva [Israel] has been the Bedouins’ for centuries; both the Ottoman Empire and the British Mandate allowed them to assert and maintain […]
Dangerous Liaisons: Fashion and Furniture in the 18th Century
Metropolitan Museum of Art
In Jean-Francois de Bastide’s erotic novella and architectural treatise, The Little House, the elegant artifice of eighteenth-century French design becomes a tool of seduction for the Marquis de Tremicour. According to Bastide, lavish clothing and the luxurious home were meant not simply to be […]
RIBA - 2004 Future House London Competition/Exhibition
The winner in the unbuilt category was Niall McLaughlinArchitects for Houseboat: London
“The Houseboat is a basket of woven carbon-fibre, containing inflatable elements at high and low levels. The lower range is for flotation. The translucent upper range forms the roof of the structure; the trapped argon gas is an […]
SCENIC DRIVE
by Charlene Rooke
We are living in the carchitecture age, an era in which most buildings are designed to be seen and appreciated from moving vehicles. The kitschy drive-ins and awkward strip malls of the past are giving way to contemporary structures that relate to their freewheeling locations in smart, efficient and even beautiful ways. […]