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January 2009
BLDGBLOG @ Rice University
Stonehenge Beneath the Waters of Lake Michigan
Of networks, grids, and infrastructures, or: How to make a planet
Arrested Development
In the winter of light
Fortifications Tour
Twittering about landscape and architecture
Air Born
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December 2008
The Six Nations of 2010
Archinect Sees 2009
Architects of the Near Future
The Garden Museum, London
Dark Sky Park
Sludgecore
Forest Camp San Francisco
Nuclear Urbanism
Warmed by Crematorium
Gone Feral
Cities in the Flood Zone
Library of Dust
Temporary Accolades
Fossil Cities
The Inhabitable Wind Turbine
Backyard Aquaculture
Down Under
Space Beer
San Francisco As It Should Be
Infrastructural Domesticity
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November 2008
The Return
Waiting Room
Science Fiction and Architecture
The City Dehumidified
Barbican Update
Piracy, Live at Sea
Feral Cities
Code 46
Resampled Space
Off to Chicago...
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October 2008
Spaceballs
Offshoring Audacity
Slow Decay
The Atlas of Hidden Water
The immersive sculpture of linked voids
Zones of Exclusion
Waste Towers
Underground Rivers Frozen in Place
Zip Line Tours Through City Space
The Game
The Castle
Minor Landscapes and the Geography of American Political Campaigns
Rethinking Union Station in an Era of High-Speed Rail
A mix of possible routes: BLDGBLOG speaks with Vito Acconci
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September 2008
Hitting the Books
Light Box
And the new White House is...
Into the Woods
White House Redux: The Book
Outer Darkness
The Landscape Anthropology of Photography Museums (and the spatial implications of graven images)
Artificial Migration Routes for Monarch Butterflies
The Brain in Space (Cognition and the City)
To remain suspended without sinking or falling
The Rule of Regulations
Future Slum
Art + Environment Conference, Reno
Nuclear Nation
Servers at Sea
The Wildcats of Foreclosure
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August 2008
Airborne Environments
The Comparative Literature of Massive Construction Sites
Tactical Landscaping and Terrain Deformation
Big One in the Big Apple
Mayan Muons and Unmapped Rooms
The Basement Maze of Leavenworth, Kansas
Library of Dust
Patent Drawings for Geodesic Structures
Church of God, Inflationist
Quick List 11
The "Endless Accident Events" of Los Angeles
Building Blogs
An Architectural Pathway to Artificial Life
Night Vision
An Earth Without Its Surface
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July 2008
The Psychiatric Infrastructure of the City
15 Lombard Street
The Atlas of All Possible Bank Robberies
Mysterious Chinese Tunnels
landscape.mp3: An Interview with Smout Allen
Spaces, Repeating: An Interview with Tom McCarthy
Chemical Nature
Baarle-Hertog
The Akwizgran Discrepancy
Three London Photos
Super Sucker
Earthquakes in the Sky
Building Users Union
Zoology
Cinema City
Talking Heads
Chinese Air Bars
Agent of Change
Trainspotting
Time Control
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June 2008
BLDGBLOG's 4th of July Live Interview Marathon in London
Martian Garden
London is swimming
For whom the bell tolls
RoboVault
Setting Up Shop in the Apocalypse
Pandemonium
Lost and Found
Night Vision
Sounding Rooms
Mapping dryness
Deserted
Stadiums of disaster and war
Machine Dreams
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May 2008
Buildings and books
White Houses and New Yorks
Olympic Choreography
Quarry House
The Other Night Sky
Caverns in Light
Radio Reservations
Inside the Test Village
Deep-water city-states
The Digital Replacement of the Natives
Mountain Monuments
Botanical Otology
The end in sight
Deep in the basement of an ancient tenement on Second Avenue in the heart of midtown New York City, I was fishing
Float On
Space/Time for Writing
Vertical House
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April 2008
The Architecture of Ascent
Space as a Symphony of Turning Off Sounds
Game/Space: An Interview with Daniel Dociu
Structured Ice
Hotels in the Afterlife
Control Shift
Mission to Mars
Sky.doc
Rising Up, Rising Down
Cairo Sound City
Ins and Outs and Travel Times
Ancient Roads
Desert Getaway
Future Super-Cities
By Indirections, Find Directions Out
Neuro-Tourism
Architecture and the Media
The Mathematics of Preservation and the Future of Urban Ruins
Transmitting live from below the Antarctic Ice
The Sound of Evolution
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March 2008
Forgotten Architects
Earth Evolves
Power Plant
Google Maps of Sci-Fi
Eddy Rises
The Architecture of Self-Measurement
Chemical Geography
Landscape Futures @ Penn
Below the Polar Ice Cap
BLDGBLOG in Philadelphia
Show Caves of the Nouveau Riche
Wind Tunnels of Mars
The Trenches of Approach
BLDGBLOG in Baltimore
Feeling Presidential
Conspiracy Dwellings
The controlled river indicates
The Octagon
Angling for the sun
On illustrating architecture
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February 2008
The Subterranean Water Cannons of Leadville, Colorado
The Book
Simulated Environments for Animals
Project Runway
Going Up
Flying-in the Bat House under military escort
Weekend Astronomy
Prosthetic Delta
Asleep beneath the Northern Lights
The Hotel Made From Ice
Vertical Transport Through Architectural Space
Amsterdam Subcity
Top 5 Ways to Hack the Surface of the Earth
Trash Mandala
Air Disaster Simulations
Network Hydrology
We will migrate into the sky
Aerial Terrains
The Big Issue
San Francisco 2108 A.D.
Psychology at Depth
Mod Living
Growing old in the age of lead
The Subterranean Invasion
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January 2008
Narrative Infrastructures
Robbie Williams CDs will be used to pave roads in China
Colored Magma
Immanent islandry
The great nowhere at the edge
Literary Atmospheres
BLDGBLOG @ The Bartlett
White House Redux
Lyons-Dubai
Elastic Houses
I ♥ Car Parks
The Other San Francisco
We Love To Build
I went to the car park because I wished to live deliberately
Landing airplanes in the middle of the sea
Mirrored crops and white gardens, or: Making the planet more reflective
Incision Skin
The Elevator Tower
The horrible secret of Number 6 Whitten Street
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December 2007
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BLDGBLOG: The Year in Review: January 2007
Architecture: The Year in Review
The year is 2099...
All eyes on the city
Adventures in Stacking
Planet Battery
Green and pleasant land
Comparative Planetology: An Interview with Kim Stanley Robinson
Religion by Satellite
Church of God, Elevator
Monolith Moderne
The city of retroactive mathematics
The Husband Who Would Not Die
Farmadelphia
Under the West
Building Lightning Farms in Paris
In San Francisco, With Drinks
The Space of the Book
50 large buildings on the floor of three rooms in an apartment
Server Rooms and the Future of Humanism
The future warehouse of unwanted books
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November 2007
Air Brain
The IceCube and the Earth's Core
Algae Power
Study in Mass
Architecture by Accident
Mobile Minimalism
Urban Speculation
Billboard.bldg
Future Snow
Golf amongst the glaciers
Foundation
Earthquake Towers, Trapdoors, and other such delights
Climate Change Escapism
Bannerman's Island
Inside the Vault
BLDGBLOG @ SCI-Arc
The City of Secret Burial Grounds
London 2090 A.D.
Stacked Cathedrals
I can bear to see no more ruins
The bridged architecture of adjacent peaks and "the fallen man of letters"
From Beyond
The Property
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October 2007
Event 40204628
Spies, Light-Writing, and the Surface of the City
White Light
Going Agro
The Road
N.A.W.A.P.A.
Las Vegas and the Future of Urban Real Estate
Because we drain ourselves
The only castle in Malibu
Like 1980s Golf Resorts
Drained
The event
Quick list X
BLDGBLOG Meets McSweeney's Meets Park Life Meets San Francisco
Greater Los Angeles
We take our notes in public
Converging on Los Angeles
Deep Space Pharma
When my dome opens, I see stars
Sitting amidst war ruins in the hills outside San Francisco
Archismuggler
Return to the Ring Dome
Without Walls: An Interview with Lebbeus Woods
Robo-Chernobyl and the Alcubierre Drive
Hog Island
Air Unit
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September 2007
Lights among the ruins
Z-A (cont'd.)
Huge pipes in the middle of the ocean
Sound Pressure
Urban Noise Generation
Inhaling 9/11
Galaxy Chicago
A Pavilion in New York
It came from outer space
Limey
The school of 5000 corpses
12 Houses: The Wonderfully and Colorful Use of Spatial Volume
Sci-Fi Regionalism
Fire Department Psychiatry
Well-behaved Homes
Dwell on Design
In the Red
The Elephants of Rome: An Interview with Mary Beard (pt. 2)
The Wonders of the World: An Interview with Mary Beard (pt. 1)
The Tomb of Agamemnon
Buy a Silk Mill
Hot-Mapping the UK, or: Spy Planes Over Haringey
The Joy of Parking
BLDGBLOG Interviews...
Sovereignties of air: the new strategic landscape
A big cop in a small town: architecture of the model village
Out There Doing It
Bauhaus Pyramid
Sound Field
It's the first of the month and we live in San Francisco
A completely automated world of self-assembling machine-flowers
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August 2007
Robot City
Drains of Canada: An Interview with Michael Cook
Single Hauz
Hello. Welcome to my squash cave.
Lake/House
Find a lake, float out to the center, build a house
Post-residential Venice
Conspiracies of Demolition
The Fold
Airborne Geology
Dwell on Design 2007
Derinkuyu, or: the allure of the underground city
Architectural Sustainability
Musique concrète
Oceanic
Waterville
Golf Stars
A Convergence at the Hammer
Planet of Sound
Beneath the Neon
The Sky Orchestra
Acoustic Planetology
Audio Architecture
50 manifestos
Event 14312160
BLDGBLOG Moves to Cole Valley
Radio Silence
One or two nights in the Sodium Hotel
Infrastructure is patriotic
Ant Urbanism
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July 2007
The possibility of secret passageways: An Interview with Patrick McGrath
Manifesto, or: "the nihilistic ravings of insomniac bohemians"
Some thoughts on desert gardens
Liberation Hydrology: Miami, 2107 A.D.
British Hydrology
The Wit of the Staircase
Prison Town, USA
60,000 cubic meters of crystalline rock
Chemical Radiance: A review of the film Sunshine
Solar Cinema
Proper Project Orientation
Little Earth
Inside these spans are circles
The Oxygen Garden
Sponsored Living
To delete this building, press 3
Cinematically mobile in the curved underworld of greater London
Wirebus
We'd all be living in dams
The Island of Forgotten Diseases
Gastro-Astronomical Tableware
Snake Of Earth
Fossil Rivers
10 Quick Links (Periodically Updated)
The Weather Emperors
Bikes!
New York Canyonlands
New York City in Sound
The Sun, the Grid, and the City
Movement
Gold Star Hurricane
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June 2007
London Canyonlands (pt. 2)
More space in the space hotel
Disturbing Indeterminate Horizons of Fresh Architecture
Driving to Reno
The Deck
Ground Conditions
If these reefs are islands
The Labyrinth and the Stairway
Sir Archigram
Future Ruins
Sound-designing the L.A. earthquake
The Storm Room
Aerial Conversationalists
Home Again, Home Again
Phoning glaciers at 3am
Blogger Open House @ Postopolis!
Rotating Liverpool
One first senses a disquieting buzzing sound
The blob
The LightHive: Luminous Architectural Surveillance
The ice wall
God is Light
Recapping this week in Manhattan
Le grande finale
It's Friday, June 1, in New York City
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May 2007
Day Three
Day Two
Postopolis! Begins
Manhattan Landfill
BLDGBLOG: The Book / The BLDGBLOG Book
Return to Postopolis!
The firestorm from space
London 2071
The TransHab: "interiors in space"
Structuring the sea
Green Trafalgar
Defense Cloud
cinema.bldg: Film Fest Recap
Back to Pasadena: The Film Fest Finishes
The Financial Core
Elevator to the underworld
Demolition Day
The Undiscovered Bedrooms of Manhattan
At the end of the tunnel
Architectural Dermatology
Postopolis! Update
Sci-Fi Mecca
The Space of the Bachelor
An Island for Destroyed Cities
Tokyo Revelation
Science Fiction and the City: Film Fest Recap
The Film Fest Cometh!
Great streets, campuses, and pedestrian nostalgia
Postopolis!
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April 2007
Landscape Futures
The architecture of solar alignments
Pay-to-Stay Imprisonment
Ancient Lights
Tunnels, mines, and the "upwardly migrating void"
Pantheonic Astronomy
Quick list 9
Solar Organ / Sky Piano
Of Cars, Dogs, Golf, and Bad Feng Shui: An Interview with Jeffrey Inaba
Fortress Europe
Sim Staircase
Precambrian Motorways
Other Landscapes
Stylin'
Architectural Weaponry: An Interview with Mark Wigley
Architecture in Lisbon
The disorienting mass of fog-bound outcroppings
Autumn leaves to black flowers
Quick list 8
The Event
The Heliocentric Pantheon: An Interview with Walter Murch
Of jellyfish, loops, site constraints, and canopies
Monocular Landscapes, Unmanned Drones, and the Orbital Future of Australian Archaeology
Don't Forget!
The Museum of Nature
Bulletproof
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March 2007
The Cloud
Return to Cinemapolis
Capital Movements
Capital Times
Fish hatcheries, barrier trees, and a new architectural Tokyo
Ole Bouman Redux
Architecture on Wall Street
Agitation, Power, Space: An Interview with Ole Bouman
Starchitecture and Sustainability
Event Reminder
Amplifier House: Original Domestic Soundscapes
Into the Wind Tunnel: Return of the Film Fest Update!
Urban Planning in Montreal
Science Fiction and the City: Film Fest Update!
Urban Islands
BLDGBLOG in San Francisco
Adventures in Real Estate
Earth's Secret Surfacing
Cover Bands of Space
Color Shift
Planning, design, and development websites for 2007
TV Mine
This stasis is preparation
High-Rise
Architectural Divorce Court
Ghost Road
Buy a Fort
Buy a Church
An enemy machine gun post on the dome of St. Paul's
Contraption Structure Bridge
Towers of Silence
By indirections, find elevators out
Architectural Film Fest: Call For Entries
The Guatemala City Abyss
The Wind Bank and the Battery
Infections of the Earth vs. Statue City
Future Preservation
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February 2007
Mars Bungalow and the Prison of Simulation
Sleep Labs of the Soviet Empire
Valvescape
Interchange Tiles
Structures of the death market
North America vs. the A-241/BIS Device
I think I may be involved in some different types of architecture than these people
Europe's Geological Attics
O Google, where art thou?
Transparent Soil and the Gardens of Tomorrow
Go Read Pruned
Three columns?
More Changes
The Museum of Assassination
Churches of remathematization
Cover the Earth
Large ocean storms along certain coastlines
Mars Power!
With nothing else to do but sit here and grow old
"Special Weather Statement"
Funky Little Shack
Slow Week...
Mines of medicine
The Botanical Arctic Ark-Archive and the Coming of the Space Seed Garden
Planetary Sandblaster
Urban encrustations
Moebius Underworld
London as it could be
The £84 million flat
Manscape
Pods and perforations
Urban Knot Theory
Abstract Geology
Station Z
Clouds of Mars
Desert elevator
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January 2007
Oxygen House
Man preps for big night; thins air in house
Of brick pits, bridges, and a building made from lawns
Architecture and Climate Change: An Interview with Ed Mazria
Laminated into mountains over the course of a billion years
Upgrade
The town at risk from cave-ins
Interactive Manhattan
Turkey Cinemascope
The Planet Miller
Tresor
Geology in the Age of the War on Terror
The Architecture of Managed Retreat
Urban strangeness
The wall
A Mighty City Constructed On A Series Of Variably-Sized Hilly Islands Linked By Bridges
Cancer Villages
Seeing the forest for the tree
Structures-in-a-Petri
Planet Bleach
To eavesdrop on breaking glaciers from within
Architecture as a form of deliberate paranoia
Copenacre Quarry
Yesterday in L.A.
The event
Urban Design Review
On the geotechnical invasion of paradise
Divided Kingdom
The First Million
Quick list 7
The Geostationary Banana Over Texas
Structuring the invisible
Fictional ruins from fictional worlds
Moguls of air
Pamphlet Architecture 29 Awaits...
Climbing Mt. Improbable
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December 2006
Inflationary Spaces of the Aero-Gothic Future
2006: The Year in Construction
Mies van der Rogaine
Going behind that door
When the doors of the earth slam shut
BLDGBLOG Redesigns...
Architectural Sci-Fi
The crisis of unspecified specificity
Leaving empty space behind
Yahoo! Picks of 2006
Invent-a-Micronation: Contest Results
The Century Giant Lamp Tower
By indirections
Fault massage
Wounded architectures shine
Quick list 6
The Invent-a-Micronation Contest Continues
The London Tornadium
River Visions of a Midwestern Manhattan
Olympic instability
Lunar urbanism 8
Bamiyan erasure
Terrestrial weaponization
Science Fiction and the City
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November 2006
War/Photography: An Interview with Simon Norfolk
Angles of entrance
Wreck-diving London
Automotive Ossuary
Snowdonia
The mine hijackers
The Lonely Planet Guide to Micronations: An Interview with Simon Sellars
The Invent-a-Micronation Contest
Gazprom City
architectural-theory.pdf
Tennis, beer, and Tudor houses
Adventures in architectural development
To Catch a Thief
Frog Hotel
An orbiting array of reflective balloons
Utopian Typography
Beijing Underground
Earth's Surface
The business card and the garden smuggler
Earth Instrument
The Fountain
Future Beirut
Payphone Warriors
talk20 goes to Boston...
A lesson in abysses
Tativille
Architecture is killing us all
The Politics of Enthusiasm
Offshore (again)
Parking bands
Fault whispers
Voting Booths and Polling Places
Sun-cancellation cloud
Hotelicopter
Paradise Now
War City
The Subterraneans
WorldChanging
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October 2006
Offshore
The Weather Bowl
Chicago's Inner Flute-Ruins
sea.net
New Zealand is Droning
BLDGberry
Quick list 5: Energy, tunnels, landscape, and ruin
Overnight in the sleep-pipes
North
How An X-Ray Looks
Situated Technologies
Project Blackbox
Pamphlet Architecture 29
Antarctica's Underground Sphere-Cathedral
$5.4 billion
The exceptions
Clearing Manhattan
Cosmic Tornado
Return of the Helicopter Archipelago
The Transgondwanan Supermountain
Airports, Tracks, and Factories
Respiratory Oases
The Hearth at Thunder Edge Knoll
Glass avenues of Paris 2054
Enter the Mini-Anti-Earth
Landscapes of Aerial Invention
Radio Astronomy
B.Y.O.B.
Human Ash Reactions
Architecture Week New York
Struck by loops
The Ring
Architectural Dissimulation
A chance to put his theories into practice
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September 2006
City of the Pharaoh
Edinburgh
Alluvial Bends
American Riverography
Quick list 4
Design in the World
Signals of salvation
Science Fiction and the City: An Interview with Jeff VanderMeer
Cistern
Architect of strings
Container Home Kit
8 Iraq War Hours
Half-Wright
Automobile test-landscapes
A 1.6km-long carbon ribbon in the skies above Arizona
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August 2006
Ratcliffe Power Station
Beijing Orbital
Nuclear Ambition
The U.S. Army Permafrost Tunnel
Dwelling in an age of aeromodernism
The B-flat Range
BLDGBLOG Moves to Los Angeles
New York Heat Island
Delta force 2
Quick list 3
An Island No More
Real Estate From Above
Freezone
Quick list 2
The endgame, the absent, the void
The Logistics of Distance: An Interview with Kazys Varnelis
A breeze-driven pavilion and some bridge-machines
The Visionary State: An Interview with Erik Davis
10 Mile Spiral
Inflatable Infrastructure
Urban Design Review
Antarctic Unearthly
Lunar urbanism 7: Being post-terrestrial
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July 2006
Altering Antarctica
A Sketch for London
The architecture of spam
Seal Silo
Urban Autobiographies
National sovereignty and the detention market
Adventures in Glass and Plastic
Energy plants
Printable Airplanes and the Future of Fiction
Voyage to Utopia and the City Obscure
The Dune Sea
Dumpster Gardens
Kew Brew, or: turning endangered landscapes into beer
Psychoacoustic UK
Tupperware City
The geometry of thunder
Architectural Tetris
Fire Maps of Africa
Living batteries and the wire garden
Archigram: The Restaurant
Mud Mosques of Mali
New Maps of Impervious Surfaces
Unidentified driving objects
Lake Loss
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June 2006
BLDGBLOG Goes to Paris...
Quick list 1
Obliteration A.D.
Earth Surface Machine
Monolith
Penny Boston's Buzzing Tunnel
Architecture 2030: Research/Design Position
Chinese Death Vans
Your Concrete Utopia
Sand/Rake Diptych
Google Sahara
Lightning Map
Eclipse Camps
(More) Virtual geographies
Cities of Amorphous Carbonia
Cartography of links
The cantilevered void house
Urban Sound Walks
Transformer Houses
Feng Shui Detector
Landscape futures
Planets, bridges, rings
Student projects 5: ship.bldg
The uttermost reaches of solar influence
Listening to a machine made entirely from windows
The surface of the earth, transformed into objects
Portable entryways
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May 2006
Manufacturing arches
resonator.bldg
Rooms of algebraic theology
Urban Atmospheres
Space is the machine
Interview with Mike Davis: Part 2
Extratextually Terrestrial (Paper topographies: 2)
Interview with Mike Davis: Part 1
Ring-structure and the vortex
Paper topographies: 1
Tracking Ants
Absolute Superlinearity
Glowing oceans
Nest-casting
Archigram meets Armageddon
Air Wonder Stories
Architecturally Autobiographical
Wormholes in Wood
A Mars Supreme
The total horizon
Autistic Canyons, Icebergs of War, and Architecture Made From Light
RE: mapping the planet
The organ bank and the bubble
Architectural Criticism
A simulated planetary environment in the Utah desert
A cubic meter of fogged space
Dolby Earth / Tectonic Surround-Sound
His brain is magnetized
Greenwich Emotion Map
Drive Britannia
Islands of Total Cartography
Cinematic Urbanism
Fresh Signals @ Coudal
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April 2006
Paris 2054
The Garages of Branislav Kropilak
Inhuman urbanism
Z
Secret Soviet Submarine Base
In space, no one can hear you pray
Delta force
Grids and surfaces
A Shopper's Guide to Urban Catastrophe
The Myth of Solid Ground
The library of airplanes
Walking over a valve chamber outside the Brooklyn Academy of Music
talk20: Instant Replay
Avant-botany
The Helicopter Archipelago
Winterhouse Awards for Design Writing & Criticism
Solar geometries
The Clone Road
Your Hidden City: Results
Assembling North America
talk20
Titan Arch
Remnant landscapes and living rocks
Isolation and change
Other subterranean structures
Hurling Taj Mahals into the Sky
Of ships and archipelagos
Liquid films and water-signs: landscape in an age of information design
The Remote Viewer
For the record
Trafalgar Flu
Super Reef: In Stereo!
Mineral hydrology
The Hollow Earth
Mantleslides
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March 2006
Lunar urbanism 6
Pruned Strikes Again
Super Reef
Metropolis: 25th Anniversary Issue
Algorithmic urbanist
In the event of nuclear holocaust...
Radio Haloes of Earth
Mexico City
Resort Hotels of the Stratospheric Future!
Concrete Island
The overlap
The blur
Tokyo Secret City
Central Park Coyote: or, animal urbanism
David Maisel Interview
Molten London Meets The Landscape Printer
Bunker Archaeology
Tatlin's Tower
A geometry of bombs, inscribed into the planet
Boullée Balloon
Return to Arbonia
Genetic America
Aaron Rose
Priest's Grotto
Thousand Mile Colosseum
Faucets of Manhattan
The Island of New Ephemera
San Francisco Bay Hydrological Model
BLDGBLOG Returns...
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February 2006
BLDGBLOG Goes To California...
Skyscraper Futures: Infected Design
Reminder: Your Hidden City
Bride of Climate Change
Architectural Druidry
Unrecognized for what they are
Borderville
Gondolas of New York
Mars Rover: A New Film by BLDGBLOG
Planetarium Among the Dunes
Mars and its stunt double
Euclid Does Kansas
Dessert Landscapes
Terrain vague
Yikes
Astral labyrinths
The eclipse is a lion with its tail around the sun
A Wheel of Perpetual Enginery
Home Plate
Vent-Based Asteromo
Green Hell
Astronomical imprints: forensics of the sun
Guangxi
omg-it's-godzilla.bldg
The future urban-modular
Soundtracks for Architecture
House for a river ecologist
Green
Your Hidden City
A Natural History of Mirrors
The birds
The light's bright trespassing
Soil Maps of Asia
In the suburbs of self-similarity
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January 2006
The Great Man-Made River
Desert Planet
Mineral TV and the Archipelago of Abandoned Shopping Malls
Mars v. Thor
The Vegas Effect
Lunar urbanism 5
Prosthetic Roofs
2006 Coffeehouse Challenge
New York City of Sound
Orchestra of Bridges
London Canyonlands
Camping in an abandoned mine
Tilt-Shifting Shanghai
Morocco Double-Exposures
"The city as an avatar of itself"
Euclidean Agriculture
Alluvial terrains
Sky Tunnels of Toronto
An electromagnetic Grand Canyon, moving through space
Return of the knot driver
Demolition Sculptures, or: Sandblasting Manhattan
Seeds of the Apocalypse
Stranger TV and the World of Cinemapolis
Landscapes undone
The Lake Project
Terminal Lake
Greater Los Angeles Traffic Galaxies
Snow City
China's Mudflat Futurism
The 7 New Wonders of the World
Alien Rain On India
Residual Landscapes
art/space
Shanghai
The built environment
Roof-farming southeast London
Architecture 2030
Spinal suburb
The hedge-bridge
Bridge, Ruin, Arches
2006 Weblog Awards
Urban Diptychs
Optometric Metropolis
Silt
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December 2005
R.I.P.: 2005 AD
Drainscaping Nevada's Gold
Famous Hulls of the Alaskan Sea
Student projects 4: The scrap lung
The knot driver
Venice Resonator
Best... what?
Falling back to earth, alone
Hydrology
Earth Observatory
The mine, the rivers, the caves
Church of Earth, Magmatic
Student projects 3: Harmonic form
Student projects 2: Germ towers
Simian urbanism
Student projects 1: The carbon tower of Manhattan
Tent City, USA
The Urbs – One Week to Go!
Falling factories and the drum chamber
Planet Glove
Beijing Boom Tower
It's parking space time
Aurora Britannica
Globes
Deep Space Hilton
Where cathedrals go to die
The Arbonian Sea
Mapping Gowanus
The Monolithic Dome Institute
BLDGBLOG's Topographic Map Circus
The Geoacoustic Sea
When landscapes sing: or, London Instrument
India Builds the Futurist Highway
Geomythology
Earthquake Tower
Lunar cartography
Unhinged and treeborne
Quonset
Florida's Secret Prison City
Plattenbauten
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November 2005
beirut.bldg
What Remains
The spike
The Torino Scale
Mount St. Helens of Glass
Cuban Rooftops
Scientological Circles
Attack of the lawn-pavers
The Newest River in China
The nylon stairs
Woven interiors
Battersea
The moon, England's tidal fence and electrical Futurism
Lifting Venice Again
UPS Vernacular
Lifting Venice
Amazonia Britannica
Dutch Parasite
Bedrock: The Film
Stan Brakhage: Cellscapes
Alien Planet
"Living Box" Prefab Design Competition
Tectonic Warfare
Lunar urbanism 4
The coming Kerouac
Cities that clean themselves
On literary hydrology
tropical.bldg
The Corn Pile
Rules of space
Suburban earthworks
At Random
Filaments of space-time
Dubai Before and After
Wormholes
Churches of the void-grinder
Silicon Gardens
London Topological
Floating islands gone wild
3 Polaroid Landscapes
earth.mov
The coming of the mega-eco-engineer
Mirny Mine, pt. 2
Embrace the meatscape
Subterranean bunker-cities
Metropolis: Next Big Idea Competition
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October 2005
The Topography of Hell
Uranium tailings and oil fields
The residual landscape (China)
Manifestations of miniature architectural texts
Mirror displacements
Garage Conversions
Singapore Bio-utopia
Pontoon City
Elevator Hacking
The geometry of traffic control
The Monitor Mine
The Pillars of Tokyo
San Jellocisco
Britain of Drains
Avant-garde plumbing
Lime Works / Mineral Futures / Surface Excavations
BLDGBLOG: Some News and Abuses...
Hyperoxic architecture
Structures of mass wasting
City Idols
Bigyland
Return of the architecturally averaged image
Roadhenge
Evacuating Manhattan
The skin of Chinese prisoners
New maps of national absence
Graphite cathedral
Foodscaping
The mining industry
Urban coats of arms
Nova Arctica
Landscapes of "a world gone wrong"
Architectural averages
Death's pyramids and Boullée's domes
Sections, Tombs, and Stock Exchanges
A Drive-Thru Enemy Landscape
Chernobyl Purgatorio
Bingham Pit, Utah
Earth: 7.5 Billion AD
Nobson Newtown
air/storm/structure
Marlboro Motels
Tree bombs
Earthquake Body Radio
Sheared urban symmetries
Iraq + Katrina: the Pentagon connects the dots
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September 2005
Four-dimensional films
Radio Aurora New York
Urban fossil value
Space in Hong Kong
(More) Ancient riverbeds
Artificial diamonds and the snowflake chamber, pt. 2
Artificial diamonds and the snowflake chamber, pt. 1
Sze Tsung Leong
Space in China
The decay rides
New Orleans: Sportsman's Paradise
Evidence of architectural thievery
Sound dunes
Soil-bombing Iceland
Das Urpflanze Haus
Privateering America's prisons, or: "criminal aliens needing beds"
BLDGBLOG: Architecturally Reviewed
White men shining lights into the sky
"Protection structures against snow avalanches in Iceland memory"
Podcasting the sun
Katrina 3: Two Anti-Hurricane Projects (on landscape climatology)
Katrina 2: New Atlantis (on flooded cities)
Katrina 1: Levee City (on military hydrology)
Musicalizing the weather through landscape architecture
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August 2005
Burj Dubai
Geomagnetic harddrive
Posted
Lunar urbanism 3, or: the radically non-terrestrial
The Inland Empire
Artificial island for archipelago New York
Lebbeus Woods
Some Towers of Babel
A miniature city waiting for attack
Interactive Nolli map
Simulating, replacing, or otherwise
Ground effects: surrogate earths: terra infirma
Ancient riverbeds
Silophone resonance: architecture to play by phone
World's largest diamond mine
Law enforcement training architecture
Philadelphia bridges
Naxos quarries
Ürümqi.bldg, then Moscow to LNDN, via Baghdad, Berlin and Bahrain
Urban rock walks, or: how to podcast a landscape
Fortress urbanism 3
Wind mirrors at 20th & Market, or: feeling the microclimates of distant tectonic events
The hanging gardens of Long Island City
Car park picturesque and the Texas tower
British landscape (and "earthquake storms")
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Waste-island Ireland and the 'necklace of incineration'
The light/surface fold: advertisements, Steven Holl, etc.
Sorkin quote
Fortress Urbanism 2
Project for a New Thames
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July 2005
Grant Morrison's Manhattan
Psychovideography / 'Fortress Urbanism'
Forest/Machine(s)
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June 2005
Herbert West: Reanimator
Tropo-electricity: or, how to turn the sky into a machine
Unworkable devices / Archaeological machines
Kristian Birkeland's magnetic museum: or, 'sunspots like no one else can do better'
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March 2005
Geotechnics
Land
Milled landscapes / Michael Heizer
Lunar urbanism deux
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February 2005
Lunar urbanism
'Animaris Mammoth'
2 architectural suggestions for stopping time
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January 2005
bldgblog-as-soundbite
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August 2004
Buttressed Buttresses
Ballard Quote
Maunsell Towers Sea Forts
Glass is the ice of sand
Minerals, Fabrics, Molds, and Mites
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July 2004
Gunkanjima Island
Post-human car park
"Instant City" on Mars
bldgblog 1
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BLDGBLOG @ Rice University
I'm excited to announce that I'll be lecturing at the Rice University School of Architecture in Houston, Texas, in only two days' time, kicking off their Spring 2009 lecture series.  [Image: View larger].I've clearly got some very large shoes to fill with this series, however, as I've been lined up with everyone from Beatriz Colomina and Cynthia Davidson to Reinhold Martin and Felicity D. Scott. Stan Allen, Juan Herreros, Richard Ingersoll, Pier Vittorio Aureli, Michael Weinstock, Peter Trummer – it looks like a fantastic series. For my own part, I think I've got a great talk planned – called "Cities Gone Wild" – expanding from the lecture I gave back in November, sponsored by the Complex Terrain Laboratory, at University College, London. This talk begins at 5pm on Wednesday, January 7; it's free and open to the public; and it will take place in Anderson Hall.I don't know how many readers BLDGBLOG has in Houston – or, for that matter, at Rice – but I'd love to see some of you there. And please introduce yourselves, too, as I love meeting new people. Also, at the end of my talk I hope to address the more general subject of blogging, if for no other reason than I can guarantee that there are students enrolled at Rice right now – and people living in Houston – who have something interesting to say and simply need a new platform from which to say it. I'd be happy to talk about establishing a blog and so on, as that's not a topic I've much addressed throughout all of these talks. Finally, I'll be doing thesis reviews at the architecture department all day on Thursday and Friday, so if you happen to be enrolled in the courses I'll be visiting, then cool. I look forward to meeting you!And come out to the talk – it should be fun.
Monday, January 05, 2009 • 8 comment(s)
Stonehenge Beneath the Waters of Lake Michigan
 [Image: Standing stones beneath Lake Michigan? View larger].In a surprisingly under-reported story from 2007, Mark Holley, a professor of underwater archaeology at Northwestern Michigan University College, discovered a series of stones – some of them arranged in a circle and one of which seemed to show carvings of a mastodon – 40-feet beneath the surface waters of Lake Michigan. If verified, the carvings could be as much as 10,000 years old – coincident with the post-Ice Age presence of both humans and mastodons in the upper midwest.  [Image: The stones beneath Lake Michigan; view larger].In a PDF assembled by Holley and Brian Abbott to document the expedition, we learn that the archaeologists had been hired to survey a series of old boatwrecks using a slightly repurposed "sector scan sonar" device. You can read about the actual equipment – a Kongsberg-Mesotech MS 1000 – here.The circular images this thing produces are unreal; like some strange new art-historical branch of landscape representation, they form cryptic dioramas of long-lost wreckage on the lakebed. Shipwrecks (like the Tramp, which went down in 1974); a "junk pile" of old boats and cars; a Civil War-era pier; and even an old buggy are just some of the topographic features the divers discovered. These are anthropological remains that will soon be part of the lake's geology; they are our future trace fossils.But down amongst those otherwise mundane human remains were the stones.  [Image: The "junk pile" of old cars and boat skeletons; view larger].While there is obviously some doubt as to whether or not that really is a mastodon carved on a rock – let alone if it really was human activity that arranged some of the rocks into a Stonehenge-like circle – it's worth pointing out that Michigan does already have petroglyph sites and even standing stones.A representative of the University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology has even commented that, although he's skeptical, he's interested in learning more, hoping to see better photographs of the so-called "glyph stone." [Image: The stones; view larger].So is there a North American version of Stonehenge just sitting up there beneath the glacial waters of a small northern bay in Lake Michigan? If so, are there other submerged prehistoric megaliths waiting to be discovered by some rogue archaeologist armed with a sonar scanner? Whatever the answer might be, the very suggestion is interesting enough to think about – where underwater archaeology, prehistoric remains, and lost shipwrecks collide to form a midwestern mystery: National Treasure 3 or Da Vinci Code 2. Even Ghostbusters: The Return. But only future scuba expeditions will be able to tell for sure.
Monday, January 05, 2009 • 24 comment(s)
Of networks, grids, and infrastructures, or: How to make a planet
If I have several blogging resolutions for 2009 – and I do – one of them is definitely to read InfraNet Lab more often.  [Image: Offshore energy islands, via InfraNet Lab].Easily one of the most interesting architecture blogs out there today – though it's really an infrastructure blog, hopefully heralding a new focus for design writers in the next few years – and written by Toronto-based architect Mason White, it tracks massive infrastructure, waste, energy, and design projects across the global landscape, taking in geology, engineering, network economics, ecology, construction innovation, future fuels, and much more. Read it and you'll know how to "harvest energy from the earth's rotation" using mega-gyroscopes, you'll discover how a more efficient offshore seaweed industry might work, you'll pick up clues for how to design a mountain and then how to connect that mountain to others using aerial tramways, you'll get an architectural glimpse of habitat meshing, you'll take an hallucinatory tour through Taiwanese mushroom farms, you'll visit underground waste isolation sites in New Mexico, you'll turn around and go the opposite vertical direction – into the sky – to farm water from the atmosphere, and you'll even punt around the artificial inland waterways of Britain using strange mechanized structures and seeing that archipelago as hydrology first, geography later. So go check it out – and make 2009 the year of networks, grids, and infrastructures.
Monday, January 05, 2009 • 6 comment(s)
Arrested Development
 Instead of putting people under house arrest – where they'd stay at home all day, unable to leave their own property for weeks or months at a time – you instead send them out to some perfect suburb in the middle of, say, Nebraska or Utah, a remote development where each house is fully furnished and tastefully maintained, but each also has only one inhabitant: a minor criminal of some sort, dwelling on the immorality of shoplifting or tax fraud and serving-out a short period of house arrest. They can even get their mail redirected there, and watch Netflix. But out on the far periphery are watchtowers, and the streets are lined with cameras.
Sunday, January 04, 2009 • 15 comment(s)
In the winter of light
"There are architecture photographers [who] refuse to photograph anything from November up to February," Michiel van Raaij writes on his blog Eikongraphia. "In their view the long shadows and dimmed light intensity of the winter season compromises their work. The effect is that – in the architecture media – not only the sun always shines, but that it is also never winter."  There are several interesting observations here, but I'm particularly struck by the thought that the spherical trigonometry of the earth's surface – and its angular effect on shadows – has an impact on how we might popularly view and represent architectural space. By extension, then, if raised only on images of buildings in which there are no visible shadows – and in which surfaces thus appear to be all but shaved of ornament – are architects actually designing for a particular season of light? That is, buildings that are meant to look good, and photograph well, only in summer? How amazing it would be to find that architectural styles begin to change – moving away from the Clement Greenberg-like flatness of international modernism toward a new era of ornamentally active deep surfaces – if something as simple as when photographs are taken were to change. All the works of Frank Gehry, photographed in the anemic, angular light of midwinter. I sense a book idea here, if any enterprising photographers might be reading this...
Sunday, January 04, 2009 • 12 comment(s)
Fortifications Tour
In between discovering this thing the other day and sitting down to post about it this morning – it was cancelled. What was it? A fortifications tour through the United States and Europe, planned for 2009. And it sounded awesome.  As you can read in the trip's accompanying PDF (3.2MB), Cornell professor Arthur Ovaska, architects Austin + Mergold, and their students would "travel along the east coast of the US and traverse Europe north to south in pursuit of a transformation in space and history of a particular type. The typology is fortifications. It is neither building nor landscape, but a hybrid, shaped in response to thousands of years of war."We will study the architectural responses to conflict; their continuing evolution and adaptation to new technology, tactics and politics; as well as their impact on the national, urban and individual scale in the built environment and landscape... While architects no longer design for war, we have to reconcile with its aftermath through re-appropriation of killing fields for parks, the re-engagement of city centers choked by defensive rings, and the transformation of space formerly traversed by metal and fire into places of peaceful public interaction.Although I don't at all agree with the statement that "architects no longer design for war" – this might be true for, say, Zaha Hadid and Norman Foster, but it is in no way true for military spatialists employed on prototype base housing, prefab field shelters, or even secure urban embassy design – I nonetheless think the very idea of this trip is pretty amazing.The program will begin by travelling down the East Coast of the US (an area that has been fortified against the “invasion by sea from the east and by land from the west”) to look at urban and rural examples of Fortress America and their effects on our built situation today. We will then continue on to Britain and study results of nearly 2000 years of military history expressed in buildings and landscape. Then, traveling along the French-German border (a continuous battlefield for over a thousand years), we will visit mediaeval castles, baroque garden-fortresses and WWII bunkers, in addition to post-bellum architecture such as Le Corbusier’s Notre Dame du Haut at Ronchamp. Next we will make our way into Switzerland and northern Italy to see some of the incredible natural defenses from the time of Napoleon and Garibaldi (area also featured in numerous James Bond movies and written about by Ernest Hemingway) as well as examples of modern architecture built in short spans of peacetime. Travelling down the fabulous Adriatic coast through several Croatian cities (including Dubrovnik – the ultimate walled city) we will observe traces of the Roman, Venetian, and Italian conquests as well as the recent civil war in the former Yugoslavia. After that we will stop in Greece to visit the famous last stand of the 300 Spartans and study the unique landscape of Thermopylae pass. And finally, finishing our Great March across Europe, we will arrive on the island of Malta: a fortified naval refuge of the Maltese order for the last 500 years that is now contending with its legacy of isolationism.Here's the actual itinerary: [Image: View larger].You'd engage in design studios along the way – this sounds so unbelievably cool to me, imagine filling whole sketchbooks and blogs with images of well-fortified hill towns, walled cities, bunkers, and urban cores – and, lest you fear for their absence, we're reminded that "coffee & refreshments will be served."      You would even have studied "operational walls":This technology seminar will focus on the evolution of the fortified wall and earthwork construction dating back several thousand years and its influence on current architecture & landscape production. The primary topics in this seminar will include utilizing the vernacular landscape as a source for construction materials; examining construction methodologies and phasing for the production of an earthwork and wall assembly; analyzing the relationship between form and functional operation; exploring the danger/safety nature of the double-sided programmed wall; and dissecting the logic of wall details. Coursework will require a series of analytical sketches, photographic documentation exercises and a final measured project.I have to assume that the trip was cancelled because of lack of enrollment, or some other trickle-down effect of the financial crisis (after all, enrollment, airfare, accommodation, and so on was all estimated at a rather eye-popping $20,000 – perhaps I'm wrong, but I feel like BLDGBLOG could organize a cheaper version of this trip quite easily).  [Image: The pack and the bunker: equipment for landscapes].How exciting would that be, though? You get Bryan Finoki, Nick Sowers, Javier Arbona, Enrique Ramirez, Edwin Gardner, the Complex Terrain Laboratory, and a dozen others; you all buy a copy of Paul Virilio's Bunker Archaeology; and then you head over to Europe for five or six weeks of cheap hotel rooms, high-speed trains, rural bus routes, and some overgrown fortifications. You visit bunkers and tunnels and dungeons and barrows. You sketch things, make short films, and one of you draws a comic book. You read Beowulf and shave Javier's leg hair while he's sleeping... Etc. etc. Then you visit Spartan battlefields in Greece and update the rest of the world via Twitter. At the end, you all split a book deal.Perhaps a serious plan for 2010...Read more about the actual trip in the original PDF.
Sunday, January 04, 2009 • 11 comment(s)
Twittering about landscape and architecture
I joined Twitter a few months ago and have been updating my own feed there more or less regularly. I was dismayed, however, to see that the ongoing Shorty Awards for Twitter users included all manner of subcategories, but nothing for landscape or architecture. I managed to get a few friendly nominations for BLDGBLOG to launch an architecture category – but, seriously: surely there are more people out there Twittering about landscape and architecture? Spatialists and landscape theorists and architecture fans – let's make this happen! Twitter needn't only be for social networking. Get yourselves nominated for awards and show the world that we can do buildings and space in 140 characters or less.
Saturday, January 03, 2009 • 3 comment(s)
Air Born
The new year begins with an interesting example of sovereign geography as applied to movement through the atmosphere: a Ugandan baby girl was born aboard an airplane en route from Amsterdam to the United States – and so was given Canadian citizenship, because the plane was flying over eastern Canada at the time.  [Image: Three photos by greentheory./Sarah Palmer].Of course, one wonders what citizenship this baby would have been given if they had been flying over the middle of the ocean, for instance, or across the tangled borders of an enclave or exclave. A complicated mathematics of trajectory, speed, and height is unleashed by terrestrial scholars below in order to find the exact location of the plane at the moment of childbirth. Like something out of Borges, imperial trigonometricians are called in for consultation. Their calculations take days and arguments break out. Perhaps the child goes on to be famous – a political leader, a poet, a revolutionary, the next pope – and his or her exact aerial origin becomes increasingly important to find out. Weather data and wind speed, the weight of fellow passengers, tiny aerodynamic imperfections in the wings, and even gravitational anomalies in the earth's crust are brought to bear: how fast was the airplane traveling? Like the origins of the Sunni/Shia split in Islam, rival factions take shape – and the battle lines are drawn, like wisps of cloud in a springtime sky. Perhaps, in a virtuoso application of air rights laws delivered to a stunned General Assembly of the UN, a property entrepreneur actually purchases the exact section of sky where he believes the baby was born. Rethinking the deal later, he buys the entire historic flight path. Soon, he owns vast corridors of air. I'm reminded of Allen Ginsberg, who once wrote of a "Subliminal Billionaire" who "owns vast Spheres of Air" – only, here, those carefully surveyed envelopes of atmospheric real estate are more like UNESCO Heritage Sites, international sky parks hovering somewhere over a border near you. (Note: The obituary of the man who invented air rights – please, oh please, someone commission me to write a longer article about this man! – was originally spotted last summer via Marcus Trimble's Super Colossal).
Thursday, January 01, 2009 • 3 comment(s)
Happy New Year, everybody – thanks for helping make 2008 an awesome year for BLDGBLOG, from visitor traffic to public lectures to publications. 2009 promises to be much bigger, and more exciting, as I've got some really cool plans to announce for the site soon. So thanks! I love all the comments, good and bad, and all the links and emails (even when it takes me way too long to respond to them), and all the readers I've met at various events over the past few years. Keep in touch – and happy 2009!
Wednesday, December 31, 2008 • 3 comment(s)
The Six Nations of 2010
 [Image: Professor Igor Panarin's six-fold vision of a disintegrated United States; I love how it will precisely follow today's existing state lines – and that Kentucky will join the European Union].In what sounds to be very obviously an act of wishful projection, a former KGB intelligence analyst turned public intellectual named Igor Panarin has explained to the Wall Street Journal that the United States only has about 18 months left to live. In the summer of 2010, it will "disintegrate" into six politically separate realms – and, conveniently for a thinker who clearly leans to the right, the borders of these realms will coincide with a new racial segregation. The fantasy of living amidst people who don't look like you will come to an end. Best of all, from Panarin's perspective, Alaska – Sarah Palin included, looking out with alarm from her office window – will "revert" to Russian control. Quoting at length:[Prof. Panarin] predicts that economic, financial and demographic trends will provoke a political and social crisis in the U.S. When the going gets tough, he says, wealthier states will withhold funds from the federal government and effectively secede from the union. Social unrest up to and including a civil war will follow. The U.S. will then split along ethnic lines, and foreign powers will move in.California will form the nucleus of what he calls "The Californian Republic," and will be part of China or under Chinese influence. Texas will be the heart of "The Texas Republic," a cluster of states that will go to Mexico or fall under Mexican influence. Washington, D.C., and New York will be part of an "Atlantic America" that may join the European Union. Canada will grab a group of Northern states Prof. Panarin calls "The Central North American Republic." Hawaii, he suggests, will be a protectorate of Japan or China, and Alaska will be subsumed into Russia."People like him have forecast similar cataclysms before, he says, and been right," the Wall Street Journal continues. Panarin then "cites French political scientist Emmanuel Todd. Mr. Todd is famous for having rightly forecast the demise of the Soviet Union – 15 years beforehand. 'When he forecast the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1976, people laughed at him,' says Prof. Panarin."In some ways, I'm reminded of Paul Auster's newest novel, Man in the Dark, in which a civil war has set multiple regions of the United States against one another and against the so-called Federal Army. Or, for that matter, there's also Rupert Thomson's Divided Kingdom in which the UK has been split up along emotional lines.But surely an ex-CIA operative, now milking the lecture circuit for all its worth, could also propose a realistic scenario in which the entire Russian east has been sold off, say, to a combination of Euro-American agribusiness firms and the Chinese government, who them embark upon an elaborate, generations-long act of industrial deforestation? Leaving Moscow a kind of irrelevant, feudal city full of Bulgari and handguns, its governmentally terrorized tower blocks populated almost entirely by unemployed and half-drunk retro-Stalinists? I don't mean to imply that I think the end of the United States is somehow politically unimaginable, but that, in a still-bipolar, post-Cold War international imagination, surely either side could convincingly outline the other's demise?(Via Alexis Madrigal. Earlier on BLDGBLOG: North America vs. the A-241/BIS Device and The Lonely Planet Guide to Micronations: An Interview with Simon Sellars).
Monday, December 29, 2008 • 23 comment(s)
Archinect Sees 2009
Archinect has posted its 20 Predictions for '09.  They're all worth reading, but here are a few highlights: Bryan Boyer hopes there will be more time for drawing: "Less building and more drawing," he writes; "more time for drawing." Architects must pursue their ideas across a more diverse array of media:It doesn't matter how this new media is produced – with a video camera, computer, pencil, or a giant ball of fire – they will eschew the recent trend towards glowy photorealism in favor of idiosyncratic authorship... If we can find new ways to manifest architectural ideas that are both accessible to the public and meaningful to a discussion amongst experts this economic slump will have been a fantastic investment in the future of architecture.In case you missed it, earlier this year Boyer brilliantly redesigned the U.S. Capitol, including a new look for federal currency.  [Image: A new $50 bill, by Bryan Boyer].Javier Arbona points out that, as whole cities and states go bankrupt, falling short with both tax dollars and government funding, "there is a raging battle between cities and their home states over funds for everything from schools to redevelopment as states try to plug budget gaps. This will lead to a reorganization of power between cities and states." He suggests that cities might even "dissolve" themselves into larger regional entities – simultaneously expanding to include more residents, more land, and more resources. "Lest we forget," he adds, "New York annexed the five boroughs only a few years after the panic of 1893, a utopian proposition like no other."Enrique Ramirez steps out of the authorial role to resurrect the Depression-era spatial prophecies of Norman Bel Geddes, in what I suppose could be called an act of found theory:What we are really doing is starting from the bottom, with our minds clear of the traditional styles and conventions of the past, and, starting from a purely utilitarian basis, trying to create a type of architectural beauty which reflects the spirit of the age and which will not soon be outdated."Every roof will be a garden," Bel Geddes wrote back in 1931. So what domestic transformations might Bel Geddes still be calling for today, on the cusp of 2009?  [Image: The "house of the future" by Norman Bel Geddes].Meanwhile, Marcus Trimble predicts – quite accurately, I would think – that "websites collating and publishing the press releases of designers and architects will continue to thrive." I might even say that certain design blogs will simply fire their editorial staff altogether and publish RSS feeds direct from the offices of designers, architects, and Middle East tourism boards, collecting ad revenue along the way. Why think at all when you can just re-post images of towers built by virtual slave labor in Dubai? Perhaps you could publish an official RSS feed for the UAE government on your design blog and be done with it. Jeffrey Inaba – whom BLDGBLOG interviewed a few years ago – predicts "a domino effect of operational failures that will to lead systematic breakdowns of infrastructure and services in [the] urban center." Unperturbed, he points us to Barack Obama's Urban Prosperity plan. Inaba writes (emphases added):Though it is packaged as a recovery plan it is really a new cities plan. In its most immediate sense it seeks to improve the depressed economy through urban development: to prop up markets by creating jobs to build infrastructure, transportation systems, public facilities like libraries and schools and to implement clean building technologies. But the plan is more ambitious and far reaching. It does more than try to improve cities as a means to an end, it aims to transform what cities are. Instead of calling for maintenance repairs and incremental upgrading, it looks to make a new kind of living environment where cities operate efficiently at a regional (rather than municipal) scale with advanced forms of collective transportation and sustainable infrastructure systems. The declaration of such a plan in itself expands the horizon of possibilities for what we as architects can design, and more importantly, it offers a historically unique opportunity for a developed nation to have a second chance to make a smart form of city. Hopefully, it won’t come down to an additional series catastrophic of events to realize such a plan. But it probably will.There are also predictions from Kazys Varnelis – whom BLDGBLOG also once interviewed – but I want to deal with those in a separate post later this week. Meanwhile, don't miss predictions by, in no particular order, Dan Hill, Quilian Riano, Michiel van Raaij, Emily Kemper and her superpowered TCHeroes, Fred Scharmen, Nick Sowers, Orhan Ayyüce, Donna Sink, Markus Miessen, Nam Henderson, Mimi Zeiger, Evan Geisler, Benjamin Ball, and Barry Lehrman.
Monday, December 29, 2008 • 2 comment(s)
Architects of the Near Future
   [Images: From a short film by Michael Aling, produced for Nic Clear's Unit 15 at the Bartlett].A few days ago, Ballardian posted a long, well-timed, and very interesting interview with Nic Clear, from London's Bartlett School of Architecture. I've long been a fan of Clear's work with his students; I wrote a short article about him for Dwell last spring (see image, below), and Clear organized last month's Science Fiction and Architecture panel in London.  [Image: A short article about Nic Clear from the March 2008 issue of Dwell].Huge sections of the interview, in which they discuss the value of extra-architectural ideas in helping to shape the "near future" of spatial design, are worth quoting in full; but I'll stick to a few specific moments here, and you can then go read the rest. What I like about Clear, though, is that he's 100% comfortable with – and seemingly relentless about pursuing – architecture not as a system of codified ornament or as a closed universe of citational conformity open only to grad students, but as a resource for ideas of every kind, whether or not they apply to your own local building codes or will ever lead to an act of construction. Want to write a novel? A screenplay? An essay about landscape and climate change? Want to direct a music video? Start a blog? Architecture offers fuel – and amazing visuals – for all of these things. The field becomes almost infinitely more exciting when you realize that architectural projects, by definition, entail the reimagination of how humans might inhabit the earth – how they organize themselves spatially and give shape to their everyday lives. Architecture is, within mere instants of discussing any idea or project, real or imagined, something with anthropological, economic, legal, libidinal, seismic, and even planetary implications. In fact, if architecture can be viewed as the material alteration of the earth's surface, then it is not a stretch to say that architecture has astronomical consequences: it can alter the very shape of a planet. Little wonder, then, if we do decide to go in this direction, that there appears to be a growing cross-over of interests between architecture and science fiction – as in, for instance, the work produced by Nic Clear's Unit 15.    [Images: From a short film by Dan Farmer, a tour through a landscape of abandoned hospital equipment, produced for Nic Clear's Unit 15 at the Bartlett].In any case, it shouldn't be surprising that Ballardian would then focus specifically on the architectural value of J.G. Ballard. When asked whether Ballard is a growing influence on today's practitioners, Clear answers: I’m not sure how many architects are being influenced by Ballard in their work, especially within ‘commercial’ architecture – maybe the forthcoming recession will make architects aware of the Ballardian possibilities of architecture. Within academia and architectural criticism, if such a thing still exists, there is a general disdain for ‘popular’ fiction – writing on, and about, architecture is still very elitist – and I have met quite a bit of resistance when discussing Ballard as a serious subject. However, I think that there is a desire to face up to a future that deals with a system in crisis, which Ballard articulates so brilliantly. I was recently reading Mike Davis’s breathtaking collection of essays, Dead Cities, and was constantly thinking ‘this is so Ballardian.’ Also, writers like Frederic Jameson and Jean Baudrillard, who have been influenced by Ballard, are still incredibly important and influential. Obviously Ballard’s early identification of global environmental issues also makes him incredibly pertinent to many people. However Ballard does not give easy, or even any answers and this puts off many people. Given the current economic and environmental conditions, he seems more prescient than ever, not simply because of the situations he describes, but because he offers a mindset for dealing with these issues.Asked to define "Ballardian space," if such a thing exists, Clear says: "If you take Jameson’s postmodern hyperspace, remove the post-structuralist jargon, add some dark humour and set it on the periphery of any declining western industrialised city – especially London – then you are pretty close [to Ballardian space]." Finally – because you can simply read the interview itself in full – Clear sums it all up: "We have to stop thinking about architecture simply in terms of building buildings – that’s why I am so interested in looking at other models and disciplines to draw inspiration from."
Monday, December 29, 2008 • 3 comment(s)
The Garden Museum, London
 [Image: London's newly renovated Garden Museum, photographed by David Grandorge].Last month I had the pleasure of meeting Christopher Woodward, director of London's newly revamped Garden Museum and author of In Ruins: A Journey Through History, Art, and Literature. Woodward took me and my wife on an after-hours tour of the museum's beautifully renovated space; housed in a 14th-century church just steps from the Thames, the museum has been energetically rebranded by Woodward and internally reorganized by Dow Jones Architects.While a longer interview with Woodward – about ruins, jungles, guerilla gardens, and English landscape painting, among many other topics – is hopefully forthcoming here on BLDGBLOG, I've written up his evening tour of the Garden Museum's new space over at Dwell. So check it out!
Sunday, December 28, 2008 • 3 comment(s)
Dark Sky Park
 [Image: The dark skies above Galloway Forest Park, Scotland, via the Guardian].Note: This is a guest post by Nicola Twilley.2009 has been designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Astronomy (IYA), marking the 400th anniversary of Galileo’s telescope. The excitement is starting early, with Galloway Forest Park in Scotland announcing its plans to become Europe’s first “dark sky park.” The forest, which covers 300 square miles and includes the foothills of the Awful Hand Range, rates as a 3 on the Bortle scale. The scale, created by John Bortle in 2001, measures night sky darkness based on the observability of astronomical objects. It ranges from Class 9 – Inner City Sky – where "the only celestial objects that really provide pleasing telescopic views are the Moon, the planets, and a few of the brightest star clusters (if you can find them)," to Class 1 – Excellent Dark-Sky Site – where "the galaxy M33 is an obvious naked-eye object" and "airglow… is readily apparent." Class 3 is merely "Rural Sky," meaning that while "the Milky Way still appears complex... M33 is only visible with averted vision."  [Image: The Pleiades, photographed by Thackeray's Globules, photographed by Hubble].Nonetheless, Galloway Forest Park contains the darkest skies in Europe, and Steve Owens, co-coordinator of the IYA plans in the UK, is determined to gain recognition from the International Dark-Sky Association (IDA) as a lasting legacy for the 2009 celebrations.The certification process is challenging. According to the Guardian, "to earn dark sky park status, officials in Galloway will submit digital photographs of the night sky taken through a fisheye lens. Their application must be supported by readings from light meters at different points in the park, and a list of measures that are being taken within the forest to prevent lights in and around the handful of farm buildings from spilling upwards into the sky and ruining the view." The IDA website itself contains everything that "locations with exceptional nightscapes" need to know to submit their application to be certified as "International Dark Sky Communities (IDSC), International Dark Sky Parks (IDSP), and International Dark Sky Reserves (IDSR).” Currently, there is only one dark-sky community in the world (Flagstaff, AZ), and just two dark-sky parks (the first, Natural Bridges National Monument in Utah, and the slightly less well-known Cherry Springs State Park in northern Pennsylvania). There are no actual reserves yet; indeed, the concept is still being thrashed out in partnership with UNESCO (who issued their own Starlight Reserve framework in 2007).   [Images: The "center of the Milky Way," photographed by the European Southern Observatory at al.; the galaxy NGC 281, photographed by Ken Crawford of the Rancho Del Sol Observatory; and the Pleiades, photographed by Philip L. Jones].The idea of a human-created dark sky park is fascinating, of course, as are the architectural and landscape modifications that must be undertaken by town councils and park management services in order to secure a qualifying Bortle score. For example, Observatory Park in Montville Township, Ohio, has been awarded provisional IDSP status (Silver Tier), contingent on "the completion of the park’s outdoor lighting scheme, visitor’s center, and enactment of outdoor lighting ordinances in surrounding townships." The Geauga Park District submitted their 34-page Lighting Management Plan (read the PDF) in August 2008, detailing various proposals for the reduction of local skyglow (as opposed to natural airglow), light trespass, and glare. These include full shading for all light installations and lighting curfews, as well as strategic tree planting. The concept of shaping the ground to frame and enhance the sky is not new (for instance, James Turrell’s Skyscapes are an architectural attempt to achieve "light effects and perceptual events" centered on a complex reframing of the sky). Nonetheless, the idea of rebuilding and landscaping an entire community specifically for the purposes of experiencing darkness is an exciting one – as is the idea of UNESCO, official protector of World Heritage Sites, attempting to safeguard dark skies as a "natural and cultural property." Scotland, with its northerly latitude and constant rain (which cleans the atmosphere of dust), has perhaps discovered its global tourist niche: A spokesman for VisitScotland, which is working closely with Dark Sky Scotland, ventured that "the night sky could be as important for tourism as the landscape."
Sunday, December 28, 2008 • 7 comment(s)
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Sludgecore
 [Image: Sludge makes itself at home in Harrimann, Tennessee; photo by J. Miles Carey/Knoxville News Sentinel, via Associated Press/New York Times].Earlier this week the retaining wall of a massive sludge dam gave way 40 miles west of Knoxville, Tennessee, resulting in a coal ash spill that now lies "thick and largely untouched over hundreds of acres of land and waterways." Houses and business have been buried whole or swept off their foundations by the potentially toxic material; amidst its unnaturally concentrated ingredients are selenium, arsenic, and lead, all of which produce "neurological problems" and cancer. "The breach occurred," the New York Times explains, as if describing a painting by from a little-known Appalachian Series by Caspar David Friedrich, "when an earthen dike, the only thing separating millions of cubic yards of ash from the river, gave way, releasing a glossy sea of muck, four to six feet thick, dotted with icebergs of ash across the landscape. Where the Clinch River joined the Tennessee, a clear demarcation was visible between the soiled waters of the former and the clear brown broth of the latter." An updated aerial survey now suggests that more than 5 million cubic yards of this possibly neurologically-active waste has been released – "enough to flood more than 3,000 acres one foot deep" – forming a new self-organized landscape of industrial byproducts, a future stratigraphic surprise for our next millennium's archaeologists.Or perhaps this is the metallization of the world long ago dreamed of by the Italian futurists. Adventures in metallized deterrestrialization.
Friday, December 26, 2008 • 4 comment(s)
Forest Camp San Francisco
 [Image: By Craig Hodgetts, from his prospective drawings for a film adaptation of Ecotopia].Over on the Architect's Newspaper Blog, Ken Saylor takes a look at the novel Ecotopia, recently discussed by The New York Times. Amusingly, that novel's key phrases, according to Amazon.com, include "extruded houses," "ritual war games," "forest camp," and "San Francisco."However, what the NYT fails to mention, Saylor adds, is that, in 1978, architect Craig Hodgetts "produced a wondrous set of drawings for a Hollywood movie adaptation of the pulp classic. With plenty of savvy and pop-culture sensibility, the script was translated into awe-inspiring architectonic visuals. The drawings were exhibited and published, but alas, the project never made it to the silver screen."The images include solar-powered, high-speed maglev trains that "utilize a 'lifting body' profile to reduce gravity forces at speed, allowing lightweight bridges that act in tension rather than compression," as well as "balloon generators over San Francisco Bay," complete with their associated "maintenance gondolas."Check out the original post for more images – with captions by Hodgetts himself – and more information about the unfortunately undeveloped film adaptation. However, I have to add, briefly, that architecture is by its very nature a specific form of science fiction: whether we're using it to design luxury high-rises, modular refugee camps, solar towers, or complete urban ecotopias, architecture gives us the means, on par with literature and mythology, through which we can re-imagine the world.Architecture, by definition, is speculation about the future.
Tuesday, December 23, 2008 • 1 comment(s)
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