Life Sans Bldgs

The best Monument Valley level.

Charles Moore, "The Spaniards Introduce Palm Trees to Santa Catalina Island" (1985) and a screen shot from Monument Valley (2014)

Prophetic words from E.B. White, whose description of the television is truer today than when he wrote it in 1948.

Damage Control might be the only comic book that includes architecture criticism.

Louis I. Kahn, proposal for a Lenin memorial in Leningrad (1932). The towers were to be built entirely of red glass brick. Maybe inspired by Bruno Taut and Mies van der Rohe’s earlier work? This unbuilt project looks like it might also be a precedent for Kahn’s Roosevelt memorial.

Continue reading at the Guardian

Google Maps Disasters No.1. Sketch for a diptych or comic strip.

"Redesigning New York: An Immodest Proposal" by Craig Hodgetts & Lester Walker (1969). Pictured: a glass dome over Times Square, covered in advertising. New York just as it is, only more so.

Thomas Jefferson's drawing of the UVA library (ca.1820) was made for Instagram.

Building a house in the Peruvian highlands.

Return of the camouflage brick billboard. #BillboardsAreAlmostAllRight

Learning from... Great brickwork in Williamsburg. I wish I knew what this was originally. (at Williamsburg, Brooklyn)

Paul Rudolph, drawing of Barcelona Pavilion (1986). "Circulation and reflection from walls."

Paul Rudolph, drawing of the Barcelona Pavilion (1986). "Circulation and cones of vision."

Paul Rudolph, drawing of the Barcelona Pavilion (1986). "Circular flow of space at ends of panels." #minimalism

Brick billboards are almost all right.