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Gentrification Talk
Via bmwguggenheimlab.org
Apr 2012
After protests prompted a move from Berlin’s Kreuzberg to the more upscale Prenzlauer Berg neighborhood, the BMW Guggenheim Lab hopes to use its temporary space to embrace the controversy: through discussion on gentrification and housing affordability.
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Governing by Design
Via seedmagazine.com
Apr 2012
From aging to immigration influxes to infrastructure, design can play a major role in governance and democracy, writes MoMA design curator Paola Antonelli. The US, she adds, lags “behind for lack of governmental awareness of design’s potential.”
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In Defense of Watts
Via suebellyank.com
Apr 2012
A former Watts House Project board member challenges an LA Times account of problems with the art project, arguing for a “loving critique” of a “capacity-poor nonprofit with a wildly ambitious mission” instead of a “reductive expose.”
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Cat Break
Via furrrocious-forms.com
Apr 2012
Cats + architecture = Internet gold. Here’s a Tumblr blog that pairs reader-submitted mashups of famous architecture—including Snøhetta’s Opera House in Oslo and Jørn Utzon’s Sydney Opera House—and cats.
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Foreclosure Quilts
Via architizer.com
Apr 2012
For former urban planner Kathryn Clark, charts and statistics on foreclosures fail to convey the hardship so many families are facing. Her Foreclosure Quilts are delicate fabric collages that tell the story of our fraying neighborhoods.
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Philly’s E-Lane
Via theatlanticcities.com
Apr 2012
On Sunday, Philadelphia announced it’d be the first American city to create “E-Lanes,” delineated Electronic Device Lanes reserved for those who chronically walk and text. John Metcalfe dubs it one of 2012’s best April Fool’s joke by a US city.
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Happy 126th, Mies!
Via guardian.co.uk
Mar 2012
Mies van der Rohe, the architect known for the adage “God is in the details,” was born 126 years ago today, and to commemorate the modern architectural master, Google has created a “doodle” featuring his Crown Hall building.
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Brandt’s Travels
Via crackmagazine.net
Mar 2012
In a conversation with the UK’s CRACK, Minneapolis-based designer and MCAD prof Erik Brandt discusses, among other topics, how living in Egypt, Cameroon, Germany, and Malawi affected his love of language and typography.
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Electrifying Aesthetics
Via moma.org
Mar 2012
Inside/Out gives a tour of Lester Beall’s posters for the Rural Electrification Administration in the ‘30s and ‘40s: While nationalistic, the work highlights Beall’s “modernist design, which far outweighs the propagandist implications.”