'
Modern Antiquity, The Paul Rudolph housing crisis.' Regularly featured here (see
Chris Mottalini's series 'After you left, they took it apart'), Rudolph's modernism appears ever flimsier, concrete rendered as slender panels abutting great expanses of thin glass. Ironic that
the architect's work should have had a reputation as being brutal, impenetrable and opaque during its lifetime, when it has now been rendered as temporary, diaphanous and fragile by economic conditions.
Automatic Washer, 'The website, cyber-library and discussion forum dedicated to automatic clothes washing machines, dryers and dishwashers, collectors of antique and vintage Automatics, as well as anyone who likes to do laundry and dishes Automatically!' Complete with
private collections, the
patent of the day and
owners' manuals galore and fantastically
obscure threads.
A history of
Iliffe Yard, still a thriving artists' colony in South London. More village London at the
Newbon Family History site, including this image of
Boyce's Cottages on
Garratt Lane; suburban London vernacular before the arrival of the suburbs themselves.
Support Spontaneous Thinking, a weblog / flickr sets with a high degree of interestingness by
Robotsluvme, especially the
record covers / on image use and
bullying by picture agencies /
Le Peu Introverti, a weblog /
Boss Virtual Pedal Board. Compare and contrast with
Hobnox /
Boicozine, UK design culture.
'I'm
on a bus in London'. Genius idea that plays very badly with mobile Opera (via
haddock) /
Justice for Audio, the Metallica
mastering debacle rumbles on /
Things to Look At, a weblog / why create a single vehicle simulator when you could
simulate them all? See also
Rig of Rods.
Down the Rabbit Hole of the Pentagon Graphics Machine, or how I learned to stop worrying and love clip art and Excel, via
Infosethetics. A job for
AMO? /
PIN-UP is a magazine of 'architectural entertainment', with the occasional genuine pin-up lurking amongst the mid-century modernism /
guilty pleasures collated at
Shelfari / architectural photography by
Leonardo Finotti.
Labels: architecture, linkage
posted by things at 19:30 /
1 comments
