resources
Modernism Magazine
I know some people who dead keen on this mag and pay heaps to get it air-freighted – now you can view the current issue after registering for free. What they say: “Modernism is a quarterly magazine about 20th-century modernist design. We range from the Wiener Werkstätte to the Bauhaus to Memphis and beyond, covering Art Deco, midcentury, pop and postmodern design.”
Halliday Baillie
Architectural hardware of a modern flavour. Also available in Australia, U.S, Canada, and El Salvador!
Bad Subjects: The Congestion Coalition?
A debunking of a Washington Post article in 2007 that suggested that suburbs and their cars are good.
Bad Subjects: Street Protest Architecture - Dissent Space in Australia
Gregory Cowan writes about protest structures. “Subverting the official and institutional state architecture, which is massive white and permanent, this architecture of counterculture is instead light, colourful and spontaneous.” BAD SUBJECTS JAN 2004
Kant’s Aesthetics: Tattoos, Architecture, and Gender-Bending
Essay by Tom Leddy – an appraisal of Immanuel Kant’s free vs. adherent beauty thesis, with the Maori moko being the central example.
Melbourne Heritage Watch
Keeping an eye on Melbourne’s older buildings for us.
Flickr: The Melbourne Architecture Pool
Loads of pics here.
ArchThai
Thai-spoken architecture portal, with news, jobs and a new forum.
Plataforma Arquitectura
A Chilean blog showing off recent projects by mainly South American practices. Very similar format to Arch Daily.
Bustler
Listings of architecture competitions and events, mainly North Ameican and European.
The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels
[555 West Temple Street]
Los Angeles,
California
United States
Ph: (213) 680-5200
click photo for gallery and details
Form Follows WHAT? History and critique of the form follows function formula
Jan Michl from Norway examines the history of that over-quoted phrase and then analyses it. “Not only did it fail to bring the promised end to formalism; on the contrary, it inaugurated, and legitimized, an era of a surrepetitiously formalist approach to architecture and design.”
The Age of Simulation
Ken Sanes – the age of simulation – a trove of essays by this bright Bostonian on such topics as disney, automated environments, and virtual realities.