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French civilians in Calais walk past the now boarded up recruitment office for the Waffen-SS. Calais was liberated from German occupation between 25 September 1944 and 1 October 1944 by the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division. Calais, Pas-de-Calais, France. 12 November 1944.

Robert C.Metcalf

Martine Franck, Children’s Library, Clamart, France, 1965

Conner Lee Coughenour Photography 

Mapping the 1981 Brixton Riots (Instrumental Drawing)

The seat of the armchair is relatively low. After completing his first prototypes, a few of the older employees told their boss that it took them considerable effort to raise themselves out of the armchair again. Prouve countered, “It doesn’t matter if you can’t get out of it. It’s designed for young people!” The armchair is still in production today.

Dünen Und Mole, by Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, 1917

Philo Farnsworth’s first experimental television broadcast station, circa 1930s.

SuperStudio | Monumento Continuo [Storyboard para un film sobre el Monumento Continuo] | 1969

The framing of the natural to intensify it’s experience was Le Corbusier’s goal. As he described it: “The site offers the striking spectacle of a vast, unfolding landscape and the unexpected nature of this has been kept by walling in the principle rooms to the view and by only having one door that opens onto the veranda, from which the sudden view of the vista is like an explosion.”

Five Mushrooms

Martha Cooper