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Murua-Valenzuela Arquitectos| Modelo escala 1:50 Observatorio...

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Murua-Valenzuela Arquitectos|
Modelo escala 1:50 Observatorio Astronómico Alto del Carmen. 2009

archiveofaffinities: ENDLESS T-HOUSE

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archiveofaffinities:

ENDLESS T-HOUSE

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pdsmith: “Manhattan could have a half-dozen such atomic cities...

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pdsmith:

“Manhattan could have a half-dozen such atomic cities strung under the city proper”. Oscar Newman, 1969. Dr Strangelove would have felt right at home in one of these cities…

[Socks, via Mark C. Newton]

Images via Sander Luckers.

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Images via Sander Luckers.

archiveofaffinities: Robert Smithson, Untitled, 1969

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archiveofaffinities:

Robert Smithson, Untitled, 1969

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deliriumtestii: Wednesday Carmen Herrera 1978

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 02:39:54 -0400

deliriumtestii:

Wednesday

Carmen Herrera

1978

linesinspace: Frank Stella, Die Fahne Hoch, 1959

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linesinspace:

Frank Stella, Die Fahne Hoch, 1959

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Rachel Whiteread - table and chair (clear)

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Rachel Whiteread - table and chair (clear)

Bruce Nauman - cast space under my chair

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Bruce Nauman - cast space under my chair

fuckyeahbrutalism: Block of Flats, Lahr, Germany,...

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fuckyeahbrutalism:

Block of Flats, Lahr, Germany, 1959-62

(Heinrich Doll, Hans Walter Henrich & Klaus Humpert for State Building Department II)

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betonbabe: LIVIO DIMITRIU STAIRWELLS, 1976-78

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betonbabe:

LIVIO DIMITRIU

STAIRWELLS, 1976-78

betonbabe: GEORGES BONALLI (?) APARTMENT BLOCK WITH A PRECAST...

Tue, 12 Jun 2012 22:23:37 -0400

betonbabe:

GEORGES BONALLI (?)

APARTMENT BLOCK WITH A PRECAST CONCRETE FACADE, ZÜRICH 1960s

"It then became very clear to me that it was not the task of architecture to invent form. I tried to..."

Tue, 12 Jun 2012 22:10:24 -0400

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It then became very clear to me that it was not the task of architecture to invent form.
I tried to understand what the task was.
I asked Peter Behrens, but he could not give me an answer.
He did not ask that question …
We searched in the quarries of ancient and medieval philosophy.

Since we knew that it was a question of truth, we tried to find out what the truth really was. We were very delighted to find an actual definition of truth by St. Thomas Aquinas:

“Adaequatio intellectus et rei” or as a modern philosopher expresses in the language of today: “Truth is the significance of fact”.

I never forgot this. It was very helpful, and has been a guiding light.

To find out what architecture really is took me fifty years – half a century.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, 1961

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ffffffound:

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