Tonight I’m thrilled switching seamlessly between Daft Punk, The Killers, the Stone Roses’ ‘I Wanna Be Adored”, and the ever-classic sound of New Order. Who can resist the song ‘Your Silent Face’? While I can’t completely ‘date’ myself in my musical selections for the evening, I can in the way I’m tuning in…a 2009 iPod […]
A Mission in Control
The “Missile Gap” started in the year 1960, hazing through the presidential campaign of John F. Kennedy. The Soviet Union had a minimum of 500 ballistic missiles waiting to set-off, while America, with its post-war fervor had only about seventy. Although a superpower to the world, and the face of war, the United States was […]
The Age of Plastic
It accounts for: 9% OF… Construction 12,626 LBS OF… Building Materials 26,081 LBS OF…Packaging Needless to say, plastic is fairly important to the modern world, with these figures, as presented by the AMERICAN CHEMISTRY COUNCIL (ACC), as of 2014. It provides us with wall coverings, cladding, flooring, pipping, wiring, and windows, just to say the least. “PLASTICS IN BUILDINGS” […]
“So Long Frank Lloyd Wright”
If architecture is the masterpiece, then music is unmistakably its muse. It flows through the hours of production, and serves as the rhythmic force to a continuous soundtrack. Both sensations stand as legends to our cultivated world, and constantly surround us. By the same token, song serves our ears, and architecture is its space. However, […]
Designing Conspiracy
The Underline
The activation of the Brickell Underline station is coming soon! As Miami’s linear park starts to become a reality of event space, please join in the festivities in celebrating the urban transformation of the Underlounge… https://www.theunderline.org
Modernist Survival
“Goodbye to All That”
In 1967, JOAN DIDION wrote the famous and un-surpassable essay, “FAREWELL TO THE ENCHANTED CITY.” It was written for every reason she was leaving New York, her own personal tale and saga, to the reason she never bought any furniture there, and then suddenly left, never to return from her journey west, to the hills of California. […]
Vintage Discovery…
Throughout the research process of thesis, with a chosen site of the suburban Kendall Lakes area of Miami, Florida, a few achieved vintage photos were found of its beginning and development. A once blooming mall at the border of then Kendale Lakes, in the 1970’s. It was the home to a local movie theater, Specs […]
Remembering SuperStudio + Archizoom…
Just a feeling that the sensory and experiential paper architecture throughout the 1960’s and 1970’s is back, in culture and its design.