strangeharvest

Reading Time: 4 minutesI’m in a dollar store.

Reading Time: 4 minutesWalking through a city you assume of course that you are in a heart of civilisation, Deep in a metropolis surrounded by streets and buildings far away from nature.

Reading Time: 7 minutesThere is a video on YouTube of one of the lectures of the late Liverpool-born mathematician John Conway.[1] It starts in the lecture theatre at Princeton.

Reading Time: 3 minutesStatic caravans, a term that already embodies a kind of self-cancelling logic.

Reading Time: 2 minutesThe history of avant guard architecture is in part a search for a holy grail of multifunctional democratic space.

Reading Time: 7 minutes“We saw a picture of it printed in Domus, back to front,” says Howard Raggatt of Australian architects ARM.

Reading Time: 7 minutesThere is nothing more perverse than a Design Museum.

Reading Time: 7 minutesIf this essay were a documentary, we would begin with a shot of the green-brown water of the river Thames lapping against the alginated stone embankment outside the House of Parliament.

Reading Time: 5 minutesIt turns out that Francis Fukuyama – yes, that Francis Fukuyama – is quite the amateur carpenter who spends his down time making antique furniture.

Reading Time: 2 minutesTo see Venturi’s original manuscript, all yellow paper, typed hand written, cut up and taped together is a text that seems to be both shredded and composed, as if placing words and sentences together were an act of composition or co…