No society that loved its children would divorce them so completely from contact with soils, forests, streams, and wildlife. No society that loved its children would create places like the typical suburb or shopping mall. No society that loved its children would casually destroy real neighborhoods and communities in order to build even more highways... No society that loved its children would build more shopping malls than high schools. No society that loved its children would leave behind a legacy of ugliness...
Loving Children: A Design Problem by David Orr
via Stork Bites Man
Andreas Ervik, 2012
The Meditating Goof
Wizard via WAYS
Seven Chairs by Yoshifumi Nakamura. From the Exhibition of Chairs for Children at Chihiro Art Museum (June 2011) via South Willard.
You cannot sit and wait for progress. Creating impulsively and reacting on the outcomes is a way to make the world increasingly better. It’s about being naïve at the right times and trying to be smart at others, having the guts to do so, despite high expectations and need for security.
To be quite honest, the best part of the whole experience is the day after the vibrant opening of the exhibition, back at the office working on a new product. Once more it becomes clear how impulses and fun can finally have their result in a functional piece of furniture. The different exhibitions are an underlining of Studio Bertjan Pot's diverse worlds. Nevertheless there is no preference for one or the other. Somewhere in the middle feels good, we're doing well.
Progress (2011) by Bertjan Pot
Sam Gilliam, “once associated with the Washington School of Color-field painting,” had by 1971 “abandoned the use of the stretched canvas” to make works like Carousel Merge, above. Gilliam intended the canvas to be “hung in a variety of configurations in any given space.”
From the Walker Art Center archives.
Indoors es una sección del estudio de arquitectura barcelonés Arquitectura-G en la reformulación y reorganización interior de la vivienda urbana adaptándola a la cultura contemporánea del habitar.
Slow and Steady Wins The Race Spring 2012 presented at Paul Rudolph's Beekman Place house.
