Lefebvre en vie
Guard Your Heart and Your Purpose: Faithfully Writing Anthropology
Writing with love and faith in our curiosities, knowledge, and experiments...
Bruce Braun and Stephanie Wakefield – Inhabiting the Postapocalytic City
Lego Bombing and the Art of Infrastructure
Because infrastructure is an art - and there is not much distance (if any at all) between the cities of our imaginations and those of brick, glass, and steel - is seems only too perfect that the building blocks of the urban imagination find themselves wedged in the concrete crevices opened-up in the built environment …
Continue reading "Lego Bombing and the Art of Infrastructure"
Art(s) in transit: Technology, aeshtetics, and the art of urban transformation in NYC
Van Silcen Avenue, Barbara Ellmann (MTA 2009) In his posthumously published Arcades Project,1 Walter Benjamin describes the emergent rivalry in the 19th century between the Ecole Polytechnique and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts: between art and technology. Technological innovation and reproduction transformed the architectural and sensual experience of time and the social, economic and material forms …
Monica Patrice Barra 