buildings
The Naturmensch, America’s Maladapted Urbanite
Every day, I walk through Buena Vista Gardens on my way to Wired. It’s a park, a public space, but most of the young people and almost all of the Americans use it as a cut-through road, to make the long block between 4th and 3rd a little shorter. As you wend through the park, [...]
the DOE’s simulacrum of an energy efficient future
The energy efficent home of the future, as envisioned by the DOE in 1978:
“Energy Saving Technologies Demonstration Project
Nearly identical test houses at Knoxville, Tennessee, in an energy saving technologies demonstration project sponsored jointly by DOE, the Tennessee Valley Authority, and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. The solar equipped house at right and the [...]
BLDGBLOG: comp lit construction
I do wonder, meanwhile, if the temporary micro-culture of the construction site has been adequately documented by architectural historians. Industrial yards have certainly had their day, from documentaries about WWII dockworkers to historical surveys of Solidarity; and construction sites have obviously long been a focus for painters and photographers.
But have literature and history given the [...]
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