Parking Public: a Tour of Private Openspace Around Hollywood Blvd
Participate in the Travel Office’s extended survey of utopian destinations
“As part of the tour, Hollywood residents and visitors (whether ‘actual’ or ‘virtual’) are being solicited to respond to the following question:What is your ideal destination? Instead of naming the place, if it has a name, please […]
Maybe it’s because I’ve spent lots of time in places where there were none, and I could barely contain my excitement upon seeing one again, but I think toilets are amazing.
They may not always be graciously named, but then again, how often do we think about the toilet’s role in making a more […]
Enduring Proximity: The Figure of the Neighbor in Suburban America by Dana Cuff
“The figure of the neighbor in contemporary culture is both spatial and social: neighbors begin as strangers necessarily inhabiting proximate space. When that closeness is intense in duration, distance, and circumstance, it gives rise to potent, if not perverse, reactions…
The figure of […]
Gerard Castello Lopes, Lisboa, 1956
Na cidade nascente, a luz vai escorrendo pelo rio de pedra.A margem, marcham as procissoes de vultos.
(originally posted by CBS at La Force des Choses)
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Antinomy Perfected: Everyday Life and Utopia in Situationist Politics of Spaceby Derya Ozkan (March 2005)
“The New Babylon comprises a set of texts in which Constant tries to develop ideas for a future city; along with models and images conceived as illustrative elaboration of those ideas. Constant’s work certainly involves a projection into the future, […]