Domus and Storefront for Art and Architecture host a reader-selected online contest for the best architecture costume here
10/31/11
Critical Halloween
Domus and Storefront for Art and Architecture host a reader-selected online contest for the best architecture costume here
10/29/11
10/28/11
10/27/11
10/26/11
10/25/11
10/24/11
Le Corbusier and Unesco
Le Corbusier's work has been rejected for the second time by UNESCO. We asked the director of the Fondation Le Corbusier Michel Richard to explain why he thinks the group's efforts have come up short...Read more at Domus.
10/23/11
10/22/11
(mis)using what is there
Novalis galleria di design e arte a Torino, presenta la prima retrospettiva dello studio viennese mischer'traxler. Opens nov 5, 2011.
10/20/11
Chic Art Fair
'le Chic signifie...absence de modèle et de nature' Baudelaire, salon de 1846.
La Chic art fair, deuxième foire Off de la FIAC - International art fair in Paris, 20-24 oct 2011- expose à la Cité de la mode et du design. Entre Seine et rue, entre art, photo et design.
10/19/11
10/18/11
10/17/11
10/13/11
Outils/Tools
Vincent Loiret's 'Outils' desk, reminiscent of the Menphis mouvement and an erector set is on show at tools gallerie in Paris with other young designers till oct 29, 2011.
10/12/11
Jack Hall - Hall House #1
He bought 180 acres and a very old farm compound on Bound Brook Island for $3,500 dollars from Katie Dos Passos, wife of the writer John Dos Passos...
Read more at Cape Cod Modernist Trust.
Photos: Jack Hall and his wife in front of Hall House # 1, Wellfleet, circa 1952.
10/10/11
10/8/11
10/7/11
La nuova Unité d'habitation di Le Corhusier a Nantes
Originally published in Domus 312/November 1955:
A new Unité d'habitation by Le Corbusier was recently completed in Nantes. The new building is about the same size as that of Marseille (300 rooms instead of 330) but its construction cost one quarter that of the Marseille Unité. To respect the budget set by HLM [habitations à loyers modérés]), Le Corbusier had to sacrifice a series of special details adopted in Marseille...See more at Domus.
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