Two news items aroused my disurbanist instincts last week, and in my paranoid
modus operandi where everything is connected, thought that they represented two
aspects of an identical process: the continued fragmentation and
Operating at the intersection of data visualisation and urbanism, the Atlas work
of Dutch book designer Joost Grootens is without peer. At its best, graphic
design and data visualisation reveals new truths, ways
I've been spending time over the last month getting to grips with Petra Kempf's
[http://beta.arch.columbia.edu/users/pk114columbiaedu] remarkable publication
You are the City
[http://www.
Photographer Jan Grothklags has created a book, Concrete Dreams, documenting the
construction of the Phaeno Centre [http://www.phaeno.com/] in Wolfsburg,
Germany, by Zaha Hadid. It might not have won the Stirling
Recently published is a special issue of Domus magazine, called Domus d'Autore
where the magazine is given over to a guest Editor-Architect, in this instance
Rem Koolhaas and his OMA-AMO practice.
