Friend me at glenn.weiss.100 for the originals in real time. Two best finds of the week are the giant mural in Syria complete this year in the middle of the war and the Smokey Hollow Memorial to the African American Community that was demolished in the late 1960s. Most popular this week is the Edmonton, Canada, pavilion by Marc … [Read more...]
Public Art Images from the Week
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Return of the Dome and Bubble Pavilion
The dome structure has a mundane and glorious history from the African thatched house to the soaring dome of dome of Florence. In the 1960s and 70s thorough Buckminster Fuller and Hippies, the dome returned to world fairs and rural, self-built homes. Today the digital design software combined with computer controlled routers or jet cutters have brought a resurgence in small structures that range … [Read more...]
Architects as Sculptors: J-Mayer-H versus Ensamble Studio
Last week, I planned to argue for Ensamble Studio as the better method to be a sculptor as as an architect. Ensamble feels the weight and balance of materials. J-Mayer-H draws shapes in space. And J-Mayer-H shapes are crude, arbitrary lines. Ensamble strives for a tactile, spatial emotion. With J-Mayer-H, the space is merely the leftover area inside the form. One is intimate. The other … [Read more...]
More Joy: Pita and Bloom
I am tracking "Joy", an emotion I don't understand, but see in others. Perhaps Pita and Bloom wants Beauty as a more high-minded ambition. Joy is the better objective. Here is the another joy. http://www.architectmagazine.com/architects/florencia-pita-and-jackilin-hah-bloom_o.aspx [contextly_auto_sidebar id="oSSJjCSPY2xo2uFq1w6MipIxeMwc4WYf"] … [Read more...]
Working the House in America #publicart
Mike Kelly’s Mobile Homestead opened to the public this month in Detroit. His video shot from the window of the Mobile Homestead starts touring around the world. Self-taught or folk artist homes are regional tourist attractions, but actual single-family houses have a limited history of artistic intervention by the finer arts. Why - primarily … [Read more...]