In this area of Los Angeles. two-car garages are mandated on each lot, by code. This garage was converted by Dry Design as a studio and possible living space in West L.A.
Dry Design – converted garage
July 7, 2011
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Peter Zumthor’s Serpentine Pavilion opens
June 30, 2011
Thanks to Dezeen for this video interview with Swiss architect Peter Zumthor on his pavilion at the Serpentine (a previous ouno post on Zumthor, on the occasion of being chosen to do the pavilion, is here).
Kenneth Frampton on Aalto, Corbusier, detached houses, the suburbs &c.
June 27, 2011
The video below, produced by Slow Home Studio in Calgary, Alberta, is a short, brilliant, unrehearsed lecture by renowned architect, architectural critic and historian Kenneth Frampton on the history of the detached house in our era.
Berber rugs from the Beni Ouarain region
The impulse in Berber rug-making to both interrupt and also loosely maintain a pattern seems unique in traditional textiles. If not unique, then it’s hard to name a tradition that equals Berber mastery of this particular tension.
One more thing
June 25, 2011
“There’s not enough psychedelic stuff on TV. I want the world to be a bit weirder than it is. I hate reality, so I hate reality TV. But I love Columbo.”
— Noel Fielding (of the BBC’s The Mighty Boosh – image of Columbo from a Boosh animation below) & more tributes here.
“Endgame Strategy” by Pulitzer Prizewinner Chris Hedges
June 24, 2011
“We will have to rapidly create small, monastic communities where we can sustain and feed ourselves. It will be up to us to keep alive the intellectual, moral and cultural values the corporate state has attempted to snuff out.”
If you think the essay below is apocalyptic raving, remember that Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer prize winner and former New York Times political journalist.
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The Moon
June 15, 2011
https://youtu.be/AGmPEVwqDVk
“If you are a moon and you don’t have a mirror, so you have to, if you want to see your face, you got to have a little look in the rivers.
Kinoka no Ie or “Wood-flavoured house” – alternative ecological housing in Tokyo
June 11, 2011
Via Monocle. Thanks to Wilson Tang for pointing this out.
Twenty-nine Japanese families have found their version of happiness by creating their own idyll in a Tokyo suburb.
35th birthday of the UN Habitat Conference on Human Settlements in Vancouver
May 31, 2011
Happy Birthday, Habitat!
Today marks Habitat’s 35th birthday. The UN Habitat Conference on Human Settlements took place in Vancouver from May 31- June 11, 1976. This anniversary also just happens to coincide with Vancouver’s 125th birthday in April 2011.
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Citroen Kar-a-Sutra
May 25, 2011
Living room on wheels designed by Italian designer Mario Bellini in 1972 as a collaboration for Citroen and Pirelli. It’s a combination conversation pit/sleeping area. It was introduced to the US later that year in a show at MoMA – Italy: The New Domestic Landscape.
