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take-away city! :)
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“Cedric Price saw the city not as a cohesive structure but instead as an unstable series of systems, in continual transformation, constantly reorganizing and rearranging itself through processes of both expansion and retraction. Price supported the idea of the “anticipatory architect” in which the general public could determine, control and shape their own surroundings.”
via: http://tumblr.radarq.net/
(Fonte: topa-tank)
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“Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.”
Jean Rostand (1894 – 1977)
Chen Jiagang - The Three Gorges Dam, Yichang
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Components of a Lustron prefabricated house, Columbus, Ohio, 1949
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Gustave Dore, “Dante and Beatrice Gaze upon the Highest Heavens” for Divine Comedy, c. 1850
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Enter the dystopian fantasies of Artata Isozaki 1985, This drawing reads like a surreal unpopulated ghost town semi destroyed by ravishing war lords. More relevant than we dare to think?
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James Wines/SITE, High Rise of Homes, Catalog of House Units, Major Urban Center, 1981
(Fonte: archiveofaffinities)
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Thomas Willson’s 1829 design for a 15-acre, 94-storey pyramid cemetery to be built on Primrose Hill, housing 5 million corpses accessed by steam-powered lifts.
(via architectural-review)
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a dissected axonometric of a book shop with living quarters, atrium and collection well
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The soothing front cover of Mat.Zine issue 11. The illustration is by Stephen Mackie.
