When Henri Frugès, a sugar trader, wanted to provide his employees with affordable housing, he approached an up-and-coming Swiss-born architect named Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, who would later become known as Le Corbusier. Le Corbusier applied his ambitious vision of minimalist, functional, standardized, prefabricated housing to a small pilot scheme in nearby Lège, where six houses and a communal…
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For many years (ten now, about which, more soon) McMansion Hell has featured many prominent and diverse atrocities from all over these great United States and sometimes beyond them. However, most of these posts have consisted of houses built during the McMansion Era proper – from the 80s up through around the early 2010s.
This is for a number of reasons. First of all: I…
Seitdem auch die Herrengasse eine verkehrsberuhigte Zone geworden ist, kann man auf ihr richtiggehend flanieren. Man sieht die Schlange vor dem Cafe Central und die vielen neuen hippen kleinen Geschäfte im Erdgeschoß des Hochhauses. Hier die radikale Fassade dieses Baus aus dem Jahr 1932.
Some of the most useful books and articles I read to think about digital aura. ⭐ = most useful for the question The ur-text ⭐ The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter Benjamin (1936) — my notes Booklist Presented in reverse chronological order. Aura, art, and media studies Ways of […]
Efter tio års opinionsbildning vill Arkitektupproret nu ta den klassiska arkitekturen till riksdagen. ”Ingen vill bo i modernistiska hus förutom psykopater” säger partiledaren Nils Freckéus – som får draghjälp inför valet av en småländsk it-magnat och en adelsprofil från Östermalm.