2015.10.12 21:23
Introducing Liberland, an aspirational libertarian micro-nation along the Danube
from the competition data: Liberland’s territory has a mild climate similar to Los Angeles, but is prone to Danube river flooding.
The Danube flooded at what is now called the Liberland territory 17-18 May 1924. My grandmother once told me that, while she was giving birth to my mother, the town alarm starting sounding, so she had to ask what's going on. "The Donau broke [its banks], and they're calling all the men to go and build reinforcements."
Although my mother was born 17 May 1924, her birthday was always acknowledged as 18 May. The birth was correctly recorded within the town's civil records, but it was tradition to register the birth with the Church the next day, and that day became your official birthday. This odd one-day-off birthday applied to all the relatives of my mother's generation and all the relatives of my grandmother's generation (that I knew). No one was ever able to tell me why it was done this way, but I've later (in life) surmised it had something to do with infant mortality at birth or soon after being much more common in centuries past, and when an infant survived at least one day, then you registered the birth with the Church.
2015.10.13 09:10
Humanizing street design with 'shared space'
There are already thousands and thousands of these "shared spaces" in the USA. They're called parking lots.
2015.10.16 19:06
A good example of art about architecture
Vice Grip House 1998
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2015.10.16 19:34
A good example of art about architecture
Room with a View 2001
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2015.10.17 14:54
A good example of art about architecture
I don't kehr.
2015.10.20 10:10
Cutting across the Chicago Architecture Biennial: the Myth-Making of New-Territories
What exactly is the archi-political revelation?
2015.10.20 14:05
Cutting across the Chicago Architecture Biennial: the Myth-Making of New-Territories
Nicholas, you misunderstood my question, so let me rephrase: What exactly is the archi-political revelation of this Roche and Lacadée exhibit?
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