[Image: Photo by Iwan Baan, from No More Play: Conversations on Urban Speculation in Los Angeles and Beyond edited by Jessica Varner]. Last autumn, I had the pleasure of speaking with architects Michael Maltzan and Jessica Varner for the new book No More Play: Conversations on Urban Speculation in...
Landscape Futures Super-Trip
I'm heading off soon on a road trip with Nicola Twilley, from Edible Geography, to visit some incredible sites (and sights) around the desert southwest, visiting places where architecture, astronomy, and the planetary sciences, to varying degrees, overlap. [Image: The Very Large Array].This will be...
Underground
1) London Topological The Escapist is a film that offers little in the way of plot or characterization, but it often excels at setting. It tells the story of a London prison break, an architectural premise that first springs to mind in the film's protagonist—played by Brian Cox—after a process of what...
[Image: by Eugene Andolsek, via but does it float].The past month has been as close to a textbook example of overcommitment as I can think of, which has resulted in a pretty slow posting schedule here on the blog; who knows if anyone else has noticed. The rest of May will presumably be just as glacial,...
Blogger was down for nearly 24 hours yesterday, and seems to have erased some recent posts and comments. Anyone else out there having trouble with Blogger? Or with deleted posts?Update: Blogger will be restoring missing posts, including, I hope, yesterday's look at Utopia Forever. Thanks to Clement...
Beyond the restrictions of the factual
If you're in Berlin this evening, Thursday, 12 May, Gestalten will be hosting a release party for Utopia Forever: Visions of Architecture and Urbanism, edited by Lukas Feireiss. The book includes essays by Dan Wood & Amale Andraos of WORKac, Darryl Chen of Tomorrow's Thoughts Today, Matthias Böttger...
Art + Environment, Landscape Futures, and a Million Reasons to Visit Reno
[Image: From Modeling the Universe by Linda Fleming, courtesy of the Nevada Museum of Art].The Nevada Museum of Art's Center for Art + Environment—which, three years after its founding, "remains the only research institute in the world devoted to the subject of creative interactions with natural, built,...
