January 25, 2006
Photographer Olivo Barbieri
An aqueduct on the periphery of Rome
Metropolis is running an article on Italian photographer Olivo Barbieri, an artist who manages to make urban aerials appear like models or animations of cities rather than real places. Thanks to BLDGBLOG and The Map Room for the links...
architecture, photographs, urban design
October 10, 2005
Neo-modern Institutional Architecture
Steven Holl's Simmons Hall dormitory at MIT.
May 21, 2005
Article: Le Corbusier, by Design
When he became mayor of Firminy, Claudius-Petit initiated a large-scale renewal project, recruiting a team of planners to create a "vertical garden city" on an open site adjacent to the old town. The new town became known as "Firminy-Vert," in contrast to the notorious Firminy "noir" of the 19th-century mining era. Le Corbusier was asked to design three Unités d'Habitation, as well as a cultural center, stadium and parish church, which he organized as an ensemble around the bowl of an abandoned quarry. When Le Corbusier died, most of his buildings were still under construction. But Firminy-Vert was already being praised as one of Europe's most accomplished postwar planning exercises.