The Public Library of Cincinnati
The Public Library of Cincinnati
Photographs of dogs shaking water off their faces
SUBMISSION: A £3.94 Argos Value Range 2-Slice White Toaster dissected into 157 separate parts, which are themselves made up of sub-sub-parts.
From The Toaster Project or a Heroic Attempt to Build a Simple Electric Appliance From Scratch
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Minjeong An
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Minjeong An
Creative, diagrammatic self-portraits of the artist.
The full size versions of the works can be found on the artist’s website (although it seems to have taken a bit hit in traffic)
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Filip Dujardin, a Belgian photographer who creates fictional structures using real photographs taken of buildings in and around Ghent
(Source: kitsunenoir.com, via tomoso)
“This house works like a chessboard. The pieces move according to the rules of each object… They must always return to the starting point to restart the game… Hence the floor, which set the existing items back in front of the windows… or the paint on the walls, which reveals the discovered fragments, are the rules of the game… Amongst them, moving in an orderly fashion, are tables, books, chairs…”
- Enric Miralles
From | Operative Drawing I: Miralles | Diffusive Architectures
The Architectural Plan as a Map. Drawings by Enric Miralles via The Funambulist
As architects, we unconsciously tend not to associate necessarily the plans we draw with the notion of map. However, both of those two objects register in the same process of cartographic creation and, in this regard, use a two dimensional language in order to create space. The architect that creates the most expressive ambiguity between the architectural plan and the map seems to be Enric Miralles (1955-2000).
What strikes in Miralles’ plans is the importance of the line. That might seem a peculiar thing to say as lines are what characterize primarily architectural plans, but few architects actually express, via their plans, the power contained in those same lines.
The Eggs of Price: An Ovo-Urban Analogy | Strange Maps
As an architect, Cedric Price (1934-2003) was such a visionary that he inspired the Centre Pompidou in Paris and anticipated the London Eye rather than actually design those things himself.
Price’s supposed brilliance is hard to gauge, as very few of his designs were actually built - the most famous exception being the aviary at London Zoo. But if genius is the ability to convey complex information in simple images, then Price had me at egg.
The city as an egg, to be exact. Price condenses millennia of urban evolution into three types of egg: boiled, fried and scrambled - in that chronological order.
