#rene descartes – @nickkahler on Tumblr

Architectural drawing conventions are precise, and enable us to situate projects within a measured Cartesian space. These drawings are methods to compress information, establish relationships between things, reveal and amplify differences, and render imperceptible/intangible elements visible.

Ila Berman + Douglas Burnham, Architecture in the Expanded Field, 2011-4

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Barbara Kruger, Untitled (I shop therefore I am), 1987 (via annjones)

#shopping #consumerism #rene descartes #existentialism #art #untitled #diagram #hand #existence #marxism #culture #capitalism #hollow #red #graphic design #type #typography #typeface

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A great city should be "an inventory of the possible."

Fernand Braudel, "On Rene Descartes and Amsterdam" from Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century: The Perspective of the World, c. 1979 (via storify)

#fernand braudel #rene descartes #amsterdam #civilization #capitalism #city #inventory #possibility #quote #urbanism #movement

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Smallwood, Reynolds, Steward and Stewart, Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre (2005-7)

This hidden gem of a performing arts theatre is located in the Cumberland / Galleria Edge City north of Atlanta off I-75. Designed by the architecture firm Smallwood, Reynolds, Stewart, and Stewart, the centre for performing arts that should probably be located in "Downtown" or Midtown Atlanta undulates above the highway, but with a rigid Cartesian envelope like a Richard Meier-esque museum.

#SRSSA #atlanta #I-75 #highway #performing arts center #richard meier #rene descartes