I interviewed novelist Sol Yurick back in March 2009. Rather than publish the interview on BLDGBLOG as I should have, however, I thought I'd try to find a place for it elsewhere, and began pitching it to a few design magazines. Yurick, after all, was the author of The Warriors—later turned into the...
Flywheel Landscapes, Energy Reserves, 3D-Printed Urban Caves, and the British Exploratory Land Archive
Last week, over at the Architectural Association in London, a new exhibition opened, continuing the work of the British Exploratory Land Archive, an ongoing collaboration between myself and architects Mark Smout & Laura Allen of Smout Allen. Although I was unfortunately not able to be in London...
The Drowned
[Image: "Two Buildings Riverside Heights" by Louis Helbig]. I posted these photos on Gizmodo the other week, but I wanted to throw them up here, as well: a series of wildly evocative aerial photographs by Louis Helbig, for a project called Sunken Villages. Helbig has been documenting flooded villages...
(waves, says hello, disappears again)
[Image: Collage by Michael Hession, based on this image from the Library of Congress]. The last few weeks have been extremely busy, and there's been no real time to post here on BLDGBLOG; so many interesting stories have come and gone, so many ideas to discuss and write about here, but I've primarily...
Hydrological Ceremonies Beneath the City
[Image: Valve chamber for City Water Tunnel No. 3; Instagram by BLDGBLOG]. I had the pleasure last week of visiting an enormous valve chamber 200' beneath Central Park for the official opening of City Water Tunnel No. 3. [Image: Mayor Bloomberg opens the tunnel; Instagram by BLDGBLOG]. New York City...
Spatial Delirium: An Interview with Michael Light
Michael Light, Gated “Monaco” Lake Las Vegas Homesites Looking West on Grand Corniche Drive, Bankrupt MonteLago Village and Ponte Vecchio Bridge Beyond, Henderson, Nevada (2010) Photographer Michael Light divides his time between San Francisco and a remote house near Mono Lake, in the Sierra Nevada....
