Culture
02.02.12:
Mitchell Schwarzer
Building After Auschwitz
On Places, Mitchell Schwarzer reviews
Building After Auschwitz, the new book by historian Gabriel Rosenfeld that asks a thorny question:
Is there a Jewish architecture?
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01.30.12:
Deborah Gans
Hospitality Begins at Home
On Places, Deborah Gans visits a digital installation by Israeli artist Maya Zack and the In-House Festival in Jerusalem, and is inspired to explore the spatio-political dimensions of
homeland.
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01.16.12:
Will Holman
Lessons from the Front Lines of Social Design
On Places, Will Holman recounts his experience at Arcosanti, Rural Studio and YouthBuild — and describes the challenge of making a career in public-interest architecture.
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12.22.11: Kate Bernheimer, Andrew Bernheimer & Guy Nordenson and Associates
House on Chicken Feet, Part 3
On Places, in the third of three architectural fairy tales, Guy Nordenson and Associates re-engineer the tower in "Rapunzel."
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12.21.11: Kate Bernheimer, Andrew Bernheimer & Leven Betts with Bret Quagliara
House on Chicken Feet, Part 2
On Places, in the second of three architectural fairy tales, architects David Leven and Stella Betts reimagine "Jack and the Beanstalk."
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12.20.11: Kate Bernheimer & Andrew Bernheimer
House on Chicken Feet, Part 1
On Places, the first of three "architectural fairy tales" that explore magical homes; part one, by New York architect Andrew Bernheimer, reimagines the hut of the Russian witch Baba Yaga.
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08.02.11:
Richard Powers
What Does Fiction Know?
On Places, novelist Richard Powers grapples with Berlin's history in this meditation on place and narrative.
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05.31.11:
Martin Hogue
A Short History of the Campsite
On Places, Martin Hogue traces a history of the campsite, from early 20th-century wilderness camps to today's domesticated campgrounds, where the amenities include day spas and wi-fi.
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03.07.11:
Beth Weinstein
The Collaborative Legacy of Merce Cunningham
On Places, architect Beth Weinstein highlights a real though often unrecognized architectural type: the diverse collaborations between major choreographers and eminent architects.
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03.03.11:
Justin Partyka
Black Fen
On Places, a portfolio by photographer Justin Partyka focusing on the fenlands of eastern England and a vanishing way of life.
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01.10.11:
Nate Berg
Burning Man and the Metropolis
On Places, Nate Berg looks at Burning Man, and how a beach party in San Francisco mushroomed into a week-long temporary city of 50,000 out in the Nevada desert.
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09.13.10:
Keith Eggener
Size Matters: Small Towns with Big Things
From the Burj Khalifa to the world's biggest ball of twine, size matters. On Places, architectural historian Keith Eggener takes an expansive look at largeness, especially "big things in small towns."
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06.09.10:
Mitchell Schwarzer
A Sense of Place, A World of Augmented Reality: Part 2
On Places, in the second installment of his two-part essay, architectural historian Mitchell Schwarzer argues that augmented reality, combined with social networking, is bringing about "nothing less than a new epoch of social relations."
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06.08.10:
Mitchell Schwarzer
A Sense of Place, A World of Augmented Reality: Part 1
On Places, in the first of two-part essay, architectural historian Mitchell Schwarzer argues that digital technology, especially the real-time, mediating imageries of augmented reality, are revolutionizing how we perceive and inhabit place.
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04.26.10:
Barbara Penner
The Wedding at Cana: A Vision by Peter Greenaway
On Places, architectural historian Barbara Penner explores Peter Greenaway's digital video installation of Veronese's
The Wedding at Cana, the latest in the series "Nine Classic Paintings Revisited," shown at the recent Venice Biennale.
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11.15.09:
Our Design Decade
Mimi Zeiger reviews
Design USA, which opened last month at the Cooper-Hewitt, marking ten years of the National Design Awards program.
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11.05.09:
Jan Otakar Fischer
The Art of Reunification
On the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, architect and writer Jan Otakar Fischer describes the failed competition to create a reunification memorial — and explores the thorny questions of German memory and identity.
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09.11.09:
Keith Eggener
Hometown, America
Architectural historian Keith Eggener visits the boyhood homes of Mark Twain and Walt Disney, and finds in each an all-American mix of historic fact, popular fantasy and commercial exploitation.
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12.15.08: Cervin Robinson
Life in Place
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