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Oil on canvas, 30 × 37.5 cm, 2014

View of the stairs to the upper floor from the library, Casa Barragan, calle General F Ramirez 14, Tacubaya, Miguel Hidalgo, Mexico City 1948

Pure Potential No 3, Energy Scaffolds and Information Architecture Exhibition, 2016-Louise Despont at The Drawing Center

Casa Rotonda, Sardinia by Cini Boeri

That’s also petty much the impetus behind this blog.  Successful buildings aren’t designed to be experienced as static images. Of course, they aren’t designed to explored on video, either, but at least there we can begin to get a sense of the way they exist as ever-changing three dimensional objects/spaces,  in constant interplay with their users and environments.  This particular film looks at the scars left on Mies Van Der Rohe’s iconic building by social, political, and environmental forces, and at the process of restoring it.

Malevich

Paul Gauguin

ANDRÉ BLOC, The Bellevue House, Meudon, France 1949-1952.In addition to architecture, Bloc was also in charge of the interior design and designed several custom made pieces for the house, including the Bellevue chair and desk seen here. Cantilevered plywood chair by Alvar Aalto (1929-1933).

ISAMU NOGUCHI, The Noguchi Room (aka. Shin Banraisha), Keio University, Tokyo, Japan 1951-1952. Building by architect Yoshiro Taniguchi. Shin Banraisha was the first interior by Noguchi to be realized anywhere. Demolished in 2003. Photography Chuji Hirayama © Isamu Noguchi Foundation. / Arch News Now

Helen Hitchings, 1950s