A typology of sorts, case study homes by peter bialobrzeski, is intended to serve as more than a visual study of huts made from whatever might be available. The photographer talks about who is living in the Basecon slum (migrant workers from the Philippine countryside), and he talks about images produced by FSA photographers in the 1930s below

vietcong artist soldier on display at Bảo tàng Mỹ thuật thành phố Hồ Chí Minh

even factories can be beautiful via rolu

totalitarian kitch the stasi museum berlin. found at flickr

The New Museum launches The Imaginary Museum, a new exhibition series that will periodically showcase leading private collections of contemporary art from around the world.

Announcing skin fruit : selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection,” its much-anticipated exhibition curated by artist Jeff Koons. opens march 3.

one of numerous prefabricated gas station designed by jean prouvé for TOTAL in 1970 found here



one of the prouvé prefab stations for sale here

swiss made design 1930-1970 here

the wild unknown at mohawk

villas of Planet Angelidakis here via pin-up mag

double rainbow in LA

i-phone library theft


Learning from Las Vegas- Revised Edition: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form

New subrban landscapes walker art center

industrial design for sale via selectism

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Atelier's second round of pictures from vietnam



Saigon traffic then and now.

steven holl eco house

A selection of the most commonly used typefaces were compared for how economical they are with the amount of ink which they use at the same point size. Large scale renditions of the typefaces were drawn out with ballpoint pens, allowing the remaining ink levels to display the ink efficiency of each typeface here

via the arm

rara lampada da tavolo TOPO, design JOE COLOMBO per STILNOVO 1970 here

Erik Gunnar Asplund, Elevations and perspective for a chair for the Göteburg law Court Annex, 1934-37. Graphite and coloured pencil on tracing paper.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, 1969. Studies for a cantilevered chair (The Brno chair), c. 1935. Graphite on tracing paper.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969) and Erik Gunnar Asplund (1885-1940) each designed furnishings for their buildings when possible. For the Tugendhat House at Brno, Czechoslovakia, Mies produced the classic cantilevered chair that remains in production to this day. Asplund designed the chair shown here for his annex to the Göteburg Courthouse in Sweden. These roughly contemporaneous sketches reflect the wide range of approaches possible within modernism, as do the buildings for which each was designed.cca collection

vintage vietnam pictures found in Saigon antiques market



more cool vintage photos and history via here