Memphis Design

The Memphis-Milano Movement was an Italian design and architecture group started by Ettore Sottsass that designed Post Modern furniture, fabrics, ceramics, glass and metal objects from 1981-1987.

sulki-min

Korean graphic designers


http://www.sulki-min.com/wp/

Schwab / Panther

German product designers,
In with 'better bauhaus'

http://www.schwab-panther.net/SCHWAB_PANTHER/NEWS.html

http://www.betterbauhaus.com/


Gerald Edwards III

http://www.sofarfromshore.com/projects/bellum-69-churches/

Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii

The photographs of Russian chemist and photographer, Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, show Russia on the eve of World War I and the coming of the revolution. From 1909-1912 and again in 1915, Prokudin-Gorskii travelled across the Russian Empire, documenting life, landscapes and the work of Russain people. His images were to be a photographic survey of the time. He travelled in a special train car transformed into a dark room to process his special process of creating color images, a technology that was in its infancy in the early 1900’s. Prokudin-Gorskii left Russia in 1918, after the Russian Revolution had destroyed the Empire he spent years documenting. To learn more about the Prokudin-Gorskii, the process he used to create the color photographs, and see his collection, you can visit the Library of Congress, who purchased his glass negatives in 1948 after his death in 1944.







Tim Knowles - tree drawings

British Artist
drawings by trees, car motions, insects, ripples, reflections and ambient motion.
http://www.timknowles.co.uk



Lacaton & Vassal

Guru french architects
http://www.lacatonvassal.com/




Outram, John

British Post Modern Architect
http://www.johnoutram.com/



Lewerentz, Sigurd

Sweden
1885 - 1975
He was an architect, but initially trained as a mechanical engineer based in stockholm.
He first opened his own office in Stockholm in 1911, and through his association with Gunnar Asplund became involved with and made a winning entry for the Stockholm South (Woodland) Cemetery competition of 1914–15.

http://fiveprime.org/hivemind/Tags/lewerentz 




 

Anish Kapoor

Jewish Indian Artist based in London,
famous for tensile fabric minimal sculptures.

Magic Plants by Kamal Meattle

"the living room plant"
Areca Palm
(chrysalidocarpus lutescens)

"the bedroom plant"
Mother-in-law's Tongue
(Sansevieria trifasciata)

"the specialist plant"
Money Plant
(epipremnum aureum)

If you have just a few of these three plants in your room you will never get sick,
and you could seal up your room completely air tight and still survive they produce so much oxygen.

Sergei Parajanov

"Color of Pomegranates"
a 1968 motion picture by Armenian director Sergei Parajanov.




re cut to Slum Villages 'Climax'

Auguste Perret

architect (12 February 1874 - 25 February 1954)
was a French architect and a world leader and specialist in reinforced concrete construction.
He worked on a new interpretation of the neo-classical style. He continued to carry the banner of nineteenth century rationalism after Viollet-le-Duc. His efforts to utilize historical typologies executed in new materials were largely eclipsed by the younger media-savvy architect Le Corbusier, Perret's one-time employee, and his ilk.


Torres Blancas

concrete high rise in Mardrid
features in film 'Limits of Control'
by Francisco Javier Saenz de Oiza 1969

Bunker Archaeology

book (1975) by Paul Virilio 
examination of German bunkers from WW II that lie abandoned on the coast of France.
black and white photography accompanied by essays.
http://www.amazon.com/Bunker-Archaeology-Paul-Virilio/dp/1568980159/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpi_6