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Editor's Picks #374

2014-07-02T19:47:00-04:00

Nicholas Korody penned a review - The Trouble with a Bird’s Eye View. The piece dissects a summer exhibition of the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Design. He concludes the pairing of aerial photographs by Los Angeles-based Lane Barden with a geo-mapping project by the German-American duo Benedikt Groß and Joseph K. Lee, is proof that "For Barden, Groß and Lee, the position and involvement of humans in a greater ecology is only clear from high above".

citizen shared "This reminds me of that story of the 1933 CIAM meeting. Participants compared scale plan/maps of major cities around the world. Neutra's graphic of LA covered a wall and then some".

Plus, for the fifth edition of Cutting Room, Amelia interviewed Mehruss Jon Ahi and Armen Karaoghlanian, the architect and filmmaker behind Interiors. The project is a journal in which the authors reconstruct sections taken from famous scenes in classic films.

Eric Chavkin suggested "The interest for me is not the reproduction of arch...

Editor's Picks #372

2014-06-18T18:54:00-04:00

Amelia Taylor-Hochberg Editorial Manager for Archinect, talked with director Kelly Anderson about her documentary "My Brooklyn" and the “incredible, derogatory, racialized way people talk about the space". The film will air multiple times as part of PBS World's America ReFramed series, starting Tuesday, June 19, at 8pm (EST).

Plus, the eighteenth edition Screen/Print featured an excerpt from Judith K. De Jong ’s new book, New SubUrbanisms, which touched on Flattening: Formal and Spatial Practices.

citizen complained "The author seems to proclaim as breaking news the complex connectivity of central & peripheral parts of metropolitan regions...This isn't new...others have been working for decades now with the premise of a metropolitan system in which the urban/suburban binary is less and less meaningful".

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