Deconstructing 194X, Part I of X
Quote 1 …only revolutions offer up spontaneous futures like 194X, and usually at the cost of great memory loss – heads must roll in order to usher in Véndemiaire, the Continue Reading →
Quote 1 …only revolutions offer up spontaneous futures like 194X, and usually at the cost of great memory loss – heads must roll in order to usher in Véndemiaire, the Continue Reading →
Planning in this sense is analogous to historical fiction, but unlike the backward-looking literary genre, its clipped narrative creates an anticipatory endpoint. It romances the nostalgic future, a potential urban Continue Reading →
A full slate today! Biking to mass before heading to NYC to leave the Brompton at NYCeWheels for a tune-up. Then it’s off to the Whitney Museum of American Art Continue Reading →
(1) The art of riding in New York City (2) The Quixotic World of Connecticut’s Boutique Bike-Makers: Zen and the Art of Bicycle Building (3) When the Party’s Over (WSJ) Continue Reading →
Found a pamphlet from the 1948 Chicago Railroad Fair at the Housatonic Model Railroad Club / Fairfield Historical Society train show this morning. From the pamphlet Retracing The Growth of Continue Reading →
(1) Bookish Good Looks (WSJ) My favorite look is a collected-over-time weave of hardbacks, sculpture, mementos, art and bookends—the bits and pieces of a curious and full life. And the Continue Reading →
“Perhaps the hard truth was this: New Yorkers had never come to really love Penn Station. Charles Follen McKim, an architect rankled by the very skyscrapers, crowds, and cacophony that Continue Reading →
A day in NYC… (1) 194X–9/11: American Architects and the City @ the MoMA (1a) The Life and Death of Buildings at the Princeton University Art Museum [FIELD TRIP] (2) Continue Reading →