The New City Reader
October 24, 2010
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This cartoon is a collaboration for The New City Reader: A Newspaper of Public Space, a project created by the hyperactive and always brilliant (he’s a rather handsome guy too) director of the NetLab, Kazys Varnelis, and the also eminently able Joseph Grima, former director of the Storefront for Art and Architecture and current editor of Domus. The New City Reader is a performance-based editorial residency designed as as part of the Last Newspaper, an exhibit running at New York’s New Museum from 6 October 2010‒9 January 2011. It will consist of one edition, published over the course of the project with a new section (Editorial, International News, Business/Economy, Politics…) produced weekly by alternating guest editorial teams within the museum’s gallery space. These sections will be available free at the New Museum and—in emulation of a practice common in the nineteenth-century American city and still popular in parts of the world today—will be posted in public throughout the city for collective reading.
The permanent staff and list of impressive guest editorial teams can be found in Kazys Varnelis’s original launching announcement at Varnelis.net, which I have cannibalized to write this post.
A taste of the newspaper itself can be found in The Last Newspaper Blog, in its tumblr. Blog or in its Twitter account.
Some other information can be found in this entry at manystuff.org, and the original press release can be found here.
Kazys can be found in the cartoon.
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On a completely unrelated note, I’d like to recommend Aude-Line Duliere/Clara Wong’s Monsterpieces: A Retrospective of Retro-perspective, an exercise on un-learning architecture history with essays by Antoine Picon, Spyros Papapetros, Timothy Hyde, Monica Ponce de Leon, Jonathan Solomon. The book speculates on the future state of post-occupancy of contemporary architectural icons, creating a retrospective of future archeological studies.
It will be presented on Monday 25.10.2010 at 6.30pm in a Book launch, reception and discussion panel with Liam Young, Penelope Haralambidou, Oliver Domeisen and Ben Campkin at the AA Bookshop in London.
Iterations: Marketing Strategies (I): Ciro Najle’s Motherhouse
November 24, 2009
Just for the sake of clarity, I’d like to assure that this does not reflect neither an unconscious -or conscious- obsession with Ciro Najle -whose own obsession I find truly interesting- nor an attempt to capitalize on the fact that, for some unexplainable reason, the cartoon about the Motherhouse lecture (the mother of all lectures) is one of the most popular within the site. That was a long sentence; the explanation goes on: This cartoon was sketched at around the same time as the original one, and illustrates very accurately two facts: a) The tendency of ideas to appear in clusters; b) The very limited number of ideas I can come up with. In any case, I promise that I won’t be redesigning the same joke for the next fifteen years.
I think fourteen’s more than enough
For those who are asking for more:
Teoría Arquitectónica de los Sistemas Complejos (Ciro Najle’s conference, in Spanish): http://lombardi-fadu-extension.blogspot.com/2008/07/conferencia-de-ciro-najle.html
GSD Lectures: Ciro Najle’s Motherhouse: http://klaustoon.wordpress.com/2009/06/22/gsd-lectures-ciro-najles-mother-house/
On the Sources of Form: MOS’s Ps.1 (Final take)
June 9, 2009
AFTERPARTY: http://www.mos-office.net/#a
AFTERPARTY IN FLICKR: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gbrainard/3670657782/in/photostream/
Past Events: Ordos 2008 with Jeff Kipnis
June 6, 2009
From the Archives of Trays: http://72.167.142.101/index.php
Ordos Discussion with Jeff Kipnis at the GSD Webcasts: http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/events/webcasts/
Iterations (IV): MOS’s Digital Regionalism
June 2, 2009
From the Archives of Trays: http://72.167.142.101/index.php
Afterparty in Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gbrainard/3670657782/in/photostream/
Afterparty in Space Invading: http://spaceinvading.com/entry/project_id/Young_Architects_Program_2009:_Afterparty200906301246376152
Previews: MOS’s PS.1 (III and Last)
April 3, 2009
Design Strategies: MOS’s PS1 (II)
April 2, 2009
Design Strategies: Scott Cohen’s Ordos
March 13, 2009
SCOTT COHEN’S ORDOS: http://www.pscohen.com/
