From David Rumsey Historical Map Collection: Colton’s Railroad & Township Map of the State of Ohio. Published By J.H. Colton No. 49 Cedar St. New York. 1853. Entered … 1851 by J.H. Colton … New York. Drawn by George W. Colton. Engraved by J.M. Atwood, New York.
Musical artist Moby has a new-ish photoblog Moby Los Angeles Architecture Blog, you can also check out his Flickr page.
Lower Manhattan
Frank Lloyd Wright Hardy House
Rocco Buttliere
We’ve written extensively about Peter Eisenman’s University of Cincinnati DAAP building skyrocketing renovation costs, which are now estimated to cost $10 million. An UC alumnus writes in with the following photos of the renovation in progress. You can see in the photos that the surface EIFS Dryvit material is being stripped away to the steel stud or concrete block structure. These photos makes me wonder what a translucent or transparent surface would look like – the structural gymnastics the metal studs are performing are amazing.
One of the points I was trying to make in Reader Response on the Eisenhower Memorial, was that the tenor of critique I am hearing is more often than not full of snark and personal criticism. Which is less than helpful. A recent example of this comes from John Massengale, who descibes himself as a recovering architect:
It’s cold. It’s winter. It’s minus 20 degrees, an arctic wind is blowing in from the Russian steppes, and you’re walking on the biggest street in Moscow. Above you in the swirling snow loom three towers that increase the wind chill factor to minus 100 degrees. All the vokda in Russia won’t fix this picture.
Haha Hadid? No no Nanotchka!
via Veritas et Venustas: The Second Semi-Annual Slouching Towards Alphaville Award Redux.
Less snark, more criticism; please.
Aaron Sorkin says it best in his Syracuse University commencement address this year (quote starts at 12m 48s but the whole speech is worth listening to):
Don’t ever forget that you’re a citizen of this world, and there are things you can do to lift the human spirit, things that are easy, things that are free, things that you can do every day. Civility, respect, kindness, character. You’re too good for schadenfreude, you’re too good for gossip and snark, you’re too good for intolerance — and since you’re walking into the middle of a presidential election, it’s worth mentioning that you’re too good to think people who disagree with you are your enemy.