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2015.10.01 21:02
LA's redesigned Petersen Automotive Museum: so bad the public will love it?
Rather than falling within the category of parametricism, the Petersen Automotive Museum is an updated example of building/facade as sign, introducing a new type of index, even.

2015.10.02 18:36
Rowan Moore on Zaha Hadid
I thought Moore was going to tell us how and why Hadid and her office chose to "set about creating ever more elaborate and disconnected icons." In fact, after presenting a continual string of anecdotes, it's not at all clear that Hadid and her office even made such a choice. I think Moore is guilty of some false reporting here.


2015.10.04 19:21
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I've always found Tigerman's iconoclasm tepid, somewhat forced, and either adolescent or cranky.
Iconoclasm can be an art, but very few actually realize that.

I Can't Stand the Sight of Blood   1984

2015.10.04 20:32
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2015.10.07 11:43
7 October

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Just started reading some Harman and already find myself wondering if the next step is "everything's the same thing."
Inside Elizabeth's restaurant, Savannah, Georgia, 1986.
SL: Everything's the same thing.
JW: And what is that thing exactly?
...finished dinner and started dessert...
SL: It's all a wavelength.
JW: That's a good answer.

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