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paavo: Guy Debord’s - The Naked City (1957) Guy Debord’s Naked...

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 10:42:41 +0100

Guy Debord’s - The Naked City (1957)

Guy Debord’s Naked City, present the most radical departure from the grid. In reaction to the rational city models embraced by Parisian postwar planners in the 1950s, he and his colleagues co-opted the map of Paris, reconfiguring the experience of the city through its authority. By manipulating the map itself, they intervened in the logic of the city, constructing an alternative geography that favored the marginalized, and often threatened, spaces of the urban grid. Torn from their geographical context, these areas were woven together by arrows inspired by the itineraries of the drift or “dérive.” These “psychogeographic” maps proposed a fragmented, subjective, and temporal experience of the city as opposed to the seemingly omnipotent perspective of the planimetric map. As mapping is used as a tactic to bring together personal narratives about urban space, the Situationist maps provide a useful example of visualizing a subjective view of the city.
The central problem with these maps is not in the way in which they confront norms of cartography, but the duration to which they are bound. The ephemeral nature of psychogeographic space meant that these sites could quickly shift through the pressures of development. The Situationist maps in turn become an archive of a specific moment in the life of the city. However, if these maps incorporated time, they would be able to show the migration or disappearance of these psychogeographic spaces, highlighting and critiquing the urban trends that were / are shaping the city.

Although the Situationists most likely regarded these maps as a record of the drift and a means for provoking new tactics for inhabiting the city, they also represent a valuable schema for creating new forms of cartography. These maps uniquely propose a networked model in which spatial events are abstracted from the grid and linked according to their typology. As databases form the engines of the contemporary base map, the information they contain may be retrieved in multiple configurations, allowing for a range of methods for visualizing the space of the city. The vocabulary of geo-spatial metadata behind the contemporary base map should be expanded to include a broader set of terminologies, allowing for new interpretations of the urban landscape. For example, querying space according to ambient phenomena such as its emotional associations or pollution levels. As suggested by Kevin Lynch, visualizing urban space as a montage of typologies may in fact be closer to the fragmented way in which we create our own mental maps. Perhaps we can begin to use database driven maps to understand place within a system of relations determined by their relevance to our queries, rather than their geographic location.

(via centralunit)

kristinesamson: turnof-century: LOVE this installation in NYC.

Fri, 18 Jan 2013 18:37:27 +0000

Ann Hamilton installation | Posted by devidsketchbook.com

Ann Hamilton installation | Posted by devidsketchbook.com

Ann Hamilton installation | Posted by devidsketchbook.com

kristinesamson:

turnof-century: LOVE this installation in NYC.

architectural-review: Barbican Cross section

Wed, 02 Jan 2013 09:54:15 +0000

architectural-review:

Barbican Cross section

architectureofdoom: Another acoustic listening device developed...

Wed, 02 Jan 2013 09:53:29 +0000

architectureofdoom:

Another acoustic listening device developed for the Dutch army as part of air defense systems, between World Wars 1 and 2.

This is half of the Czech four-horn acoustic locator, called Goerz.

ryanpanos: Live Feed Drawings by Jordan Rodgers via The...

Mon, 17 Dec 2012 13:52:07 +0000

ryanpanos:

Live Feed Drawings by Jordan Rodgers via The Draftery

ryanpanos: The Toughest Nail Houses of China

Fri, 14 Dec 2012 16:54:42 +0000

ryanpanos:

The Toughest Nail Houses of China

darylmulvihill: Drift on Flickr. Sara at the Oscar Niemeyer...

Sat, 08 Dec 2012 13:31:25 +0000

darylmulvihill:

Drift on Flickr.

Sara at the Oscar Niemeyer Museum, Curitiba

spatialforces: The church of fear, or perhaps a cathedral under...

Tue, 13 Nov 2012 16:43:17 +0000

spatialforces:

The church of fear, or perhaps a cathedral under construction. Bacau, Romania

icancauseaconstellation: Detroit’s partially implemented...

Sat, 27 Oct 2012 19:07:23 +0100

icancauseaconstellation:

Detroit’s partially implemented Woodward Plan.

thekhooll: Tree house Built by the Korowai people in Papua, New...

Tue, 09 Oct 2012 15:19:17 +0100

thekhooll:

Tree house

Built by the Korowai people in Papua, New Guinea.

thekhooll: Lego ! Original patent for the LEGO brick.

Wed, 19 Sep 2012 15:39:02 +0100

thekhooll:

Lego !

Original patent for the LEGO brick.

nevver: You must declare Moon rocks

Tue, 04 Sep 2012 15:24:34 +0100

nevver:

You must declare Moon rocks

travelingcolors: Impressive Hong Kong | China (by Coolbiere....

Wed, 22 Aug 2012 09:06:30 +0100

travelingcolors:

Impressive Hong Kong | China (by Coolbiere. A.)

subtilitas: Roberto Gandolfi, José Sanchotene, & Burle Marx...

Tue, 24 Jul 2012 21:24:29 +0100

subtilitas:

Roberto Gandolfi, José Sanchotene, & Burle Marx - Petrobras headquarters, Rio de Janeiro 1968. Via weyerdk.

Gevonden een...

Mon, 23 Jul 2012 09:45:41 +0100

Gevonden een overlijdensbericht:

http://www.archined.nl/opinie/2011/eigenwaarde-en-stedenbouw/

Even Amsterdam could do with a few of these

Sat, 21 Jul 2012 12:48:57 +0100

photos by Jeff Magus. 19.07.12.

Even Amsterdam could do with a few of these

wowgreat: rdr_010_7 (by leonelcunha)

Sat, 21 Jul 2012 12:43:40 +0100

wowgreat:

rdr_010_7 (by leonelcunha)

architizer: China “Exports” Ghost Cities to Angola

Wed, 18 Jul 2012 12:18:44 +0100

architizer:

China “Exports” Ghost Cities to Angola

The Green Backyard - Documentary

Wed, 11 Jul 2012 09:23:15 +0100

The Green Backyard from Daryl Mulvihill on Vimeo.

This is the story of a once neglected urban wasteland in Peterborough, recently transformed into a much loved community resource by a crew of eager volunteers, led by the father and daughter team of Rennie and Sophie Antonelli. This is a light-hearted and candid portrait of this garden that brings together its flora, fauna, people and activities in a symbiotic fashion. Through its simple approach to placemaking the green backyard carries a bigger environmental message for our urban areas and highlights that it is often the simpler things in life that carry the most meaning.

For more information please contact me daryl [at] dmau.com

betonbabe: THE PLAN OF BAGHDAD, CA. 760 A.D.

Wed, 04 Jul 2012 15:56:20 +0100

betonbabe:

THE PLAN OF BAGHDAD, CA. 760 A.D.