Wednesday, February 28, 2001

Missed Karen Kimmel and James Bond [of Kbond]'s wedding in November? Well, ok, I did too. Nobody ever invites me anywhere. But you can check out the photos of the glass twigs and the six tons of crushed glass at designer Landscape2go's web site
posted by Kazys Varnelis 2/28/2001 10:30:46 AM

Tuesday, February 27, 2001

It's not architecture but it's perhaps the best movie ever made (just as I'm not into squiggly bits in resin in architecture, nonlinear and structuralist cinema just don't do it for me).

And now Franics Ford Coppola plans the release of an
expanded, re-edited 'Apocalypse Now'.
posted by Kazys Varnelis 2/27/2001 12:40:45 AM

Sunday, February 25, 2001

Don't miss The Fabulous Ruins of Detroit
posted by Kazys Varnelis 2/25/2001 09:59:47 PM

Quite a few Situationist texts may be found at
Notbored.org

Now, I'm a bit bored of the Sits, but then, with the strange ascendancy of George W. and the oncoming truck that is the New Recession, a good dose of Leftiness might be welcome. We're all sick of Fast Company anyway, aren't we?
posted by Kazys Varnelis 2/25/2001 09:01:45 PM

Saturday, February 24, 2001

Until some official website dealing with the construction of the new SCI_Arc building is established, you may want to keep checking here.
posted by Kazys Varnelis 2/24/2001 01:36:53 AM

Friday, February 23, 2001

Appendx magazine provides a forum for progressive dialogue on questions of culture, theory, class, sexuality, and race in architecture. All articles are online: Appendx - Culture | Theory | Praxis
posted by Kazys Varnelis 2/23/2001 12:47:34 PM

As anybody who's been awake in the last year realizes, the Post-Fordist world isn't all Fast Company and go-with-the-flow boosterism. It is also punctuated by collapsing infrastructures and periodic economic crises.
Reuters issued an article today on how the
North American Power Grid Desperately Needs Upgrading.
posted by Kazys Varnelis 2/23/2001 11:25:28 AM

Sometimes ruins can be new and big. Visit
a so-called extremal tower in Siberia
posted by Kazys Varnelis 2/23/2001 12:49:36 AM

Wednesday, February 21, 2001

A brief article I wrote for Mimi Zeiger's Loud Paper magazine titled
Teen Urbanism is now available on line.
posted by Kazys Varnelis 2/21/2001 01:38:14 PM

Architecture consultant Stephanie Smith has relaunched her
Architecture NOW as an online resource for "Better business through design."
posted by Kazys Varnelis 2/21/2001 12:26:15 PM

Preservation and nostalgia can be dangerous, when Angel's Flight, the world's shortest railway collapsed late last month, one person was killed.
This digital still shows the cars of Angel's Flight immediately after the crash.
posted by Kazys Varnelis 2/21/2001 12:23:10 PM

Tuesday, February 20, 2001

Looking for theory? Check out Martin Ryder's website on Postmodern Thought at the University of Colorado. Links to fun stuff like the text of Jameson's Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, profiles of major theorists, and so forth.
posted by Kazys Varnelis 2/20/2001 09:09:34 AM

Monday, February 19, 2001

Last week the New York Times featured an article on Slab City, a smaller but perhaps more eccentric version of Quartzsite. Visit Slab City Journal: For Thousands, a Town of Concrete Slabs Is a Winter Retreat
posted by Kazys Varnelis 2/19/2001 08:13:03 PM

Friday, February 16, 2001

Check out the CACI corporation's free demographic information, searchable by zip code. This includes information on the dominant CACI ACORN cluster in your neighborhood. Claritas's PRIZM and Microvision look-up by zip-code is more thorough in its investigation of clusters and neighborhood segments.
posted by Kazys Varnelis 2/16/2001 08:11:08 PM

Doing research on a particular urban context? Check out CenStats, the US Census bureau's detailed summaries of businesses, listed by zip code
posted by Kazys Varnelis 2/16/2001 08:05:44 PM

Architectural historian Richard Longstreth's Bibliography of the Built Environment of Los Angeles is on line.
posted by Kazys Varnelis 2/16/2001 07:48:11 PM

Sunday, February 11, 2001

Are you on Rem's inside list?
Malcolm Gladwell is.
posted by Kazys Varnelis 2/11/2001 10:34:37 AM