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Sagrada Familia Gloria Façade
A quick mashup in Sketchup to illustrate what I regard as the only reasonable solution to the problem of the Sagrada Familia's Gloria entrance problem in Barcelona. I was prompted by a recent ArtNet article: The Sagrada Familia Will...
ReZumthoring LACMA
During the pandemic lockdown, news began to filter about a quiet demolition of historic elements of the LACMA campus: In April, while all but the most essential workers were home under shelter-in-place orders, demolition crews began tearing down the...
Reverse Bataille
Regarding our inner Bataille: is it time to get a grip? #georgesbattaille #tossademar #summerstudio A post shared by Dennis Hollingsworth (@pacificohollingsworth) on Jul 25, 2018 at 2:37pm PDT 1. Bataille is a marvel. Early modernist transgression. His education started...
Rebuild Them
The truth of what happened at the World Trade Center building site after 9-11 keeps trickling out. In my dreams, someday we will rebuild the forms of Yamasaki's original design, perhaps even a little bit taller. New defensive parameters...
Rebuild Them
I'm glad that Banksy agrees with me. Rebuild Them. (Source.)...
Corbusian Wellsprings
An interesting show is up this season, late summer into the fall at MOMA NYC: Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes. The ideas of Le Corbusier congealed in the mere ten years between his 20's and 30's. It's...
Rebuild Them
1776 feet? Really?? It takes a Gawker to call out bullshit on a monumental architectural insult to intelligence. Here is their last paragraph: But when you wed yourself to symbolism so glib and cloying as that--you have to follow...
Rebuild Them
Advice to a Young Artist
Recently, I had discovered a half brother, born to my father in a subsequent mariage. It's a huge and epic story, wonderful, and crushingly sad in that we had both lost a father together before we had an opportunity...
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Notes on the Miami Art Fairs
A smattering of photos and notes after my week in Miami... And a smattering is all I can offer, my apologies to you dear reader. Being journalistic and systematic seems to get in the way of the flow through...
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Rebuild Them
Better this than the boondoggle: People who still think "The Freedom Tower" is a good name for the new WTC building? GROW UP. After the last eight years that really sounds like a bunch of 7th-graders came up with...
Constellation
Here are a few worlds that I have been tracing together recently:...
(Emphasis Mine)
1. Just two days after August 29, 2005, when Hurricane Katrina smashed into New Orleans, architectural wunderkind Daniel Libeskind was already overflowing with ideas about how to restore the city. Libeskind?he of the 1,776-foot ?Freedom Tower? for New York?s Ground...
Rebuild Them
Rebuild Them
Keep the structure and form, redesign the internal volumes to accomodate a memorial and a better urbanism for that part of Manhattan....
Personal, Diffcult Things.
This is a tough topic, for me and maybe for you. So be forewarned. This blogpost is going to be deep, messy and ultimately unresolved. Pues, nada. * * *...
Rebuild Them!
Nicolai Ouroussof had a few incisive things to say about the World Trade Center Freedom Tower in the NYTimes today: ...the widely anticipated announcement that Gov. Eliot Spitzer will support the construction of the Freedom Tower may signal an...
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