December 2008
43 posts
2009 Predictions →
Courtesy of Archinect.
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Boundary Layers →
On substituting the architectural object for the aerodynamic object … literally
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Typotheque: Taking Credit: Film title sequences,... →
Emily King’s MA thesis on the history of film title sequences.
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Typotheque: Erik Nitsche: The Reluctant Modernist... →
A 1999 piece from Print about the under-appreciated Swiss graphic designer.  A sample of Erik Nitsche’s work is available here.
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Seasons Greetings →
…. and a Happy New Year.
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WatchWatch
For The Damaged Right Eye (dir Toshio Matsumoto, 1969)
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The Messy, Material City →
Keeping tabs on the thing-ness of cities.
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Welcome to Victory City
Find out more, via a typically excellent post at Kosmograd.
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"Thanks!", or Wellington Air Telegraphy
Screen grabs showing communication between a Vickers Wellington and a Royal Navy destroyer. From Alexander Korda’sThe Lion Has Wings (1940). Via E.G.R.
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Video for Fujiya & Miyagi’s “Sore Thumb”, directed by Wade Shotter Via Pitchfork TV Dig the Battlezone reference
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“As our sidebar attests, the signal to noise ratio in the contemporary...”
– via Things Magazine
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Postal Services and Pneumatic Tubes →
Nice project description, courtesy of Molly.
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“Tomorrows visitors to todays (or yesterdays) iconic buildings will feel the...”
– Via Strange Harvest
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Hatch
I am one of the contributors to Hatch: The Next Architectural Generation (Laurence King Publishing 2008).  This volume, edited by AJ’s own Kieran Long, features, 114 architects who will define the physical fabric of our cities for the next 30 years, as well as the theoretical and interpretive background of architectural practice worldwide.  These are practitioners for whom the old...
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