Henry Mercer, Mercer Museum, Doylestown, PA, c. 1904
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Kim Abeles, Cabinet of Wondering, 2014 (via burnaway)
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Adam Richards, Museum of Art and Craft, Ditchling, England, 2013 (via subtilitas)
Toronto can expect that the rich will continue to funnel money into legacy projects and celebrity commissions. Maybe, with their help, we’ll rebuke London with our own Renzo Piano tower, or we’ll get back at Berlin and Denver with a better Libeskind than the ones they (and we) currently have. If we’re lucky, we’ll get a David Adjaye complex, and if we’re less risk averse than Mirvish thinks we are, we’ll roll the dice on Zaha Hadid or Jean Nouvel. The city will develop, if not in livability or regional distinctiveness, then at least in ostentation, grandeur, and height. Then, when the frenzy is over, and we’ve filled our urban curio cabinet with monuments to wealth and status anxiety, maybe we’ll build something for ourselves.
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Eberhard Guarnerius Happel, The Princely Kunstkammer, Dresden, Germany, 1687 (via grupaok)
We see architecture as an act of profound optimism. Its foundation lies in believing that it is possible to make places on earth that can give a sense of grace to life.
Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, “On Common Ground for the Biennale,” Venice, Italy, 2012 (via wunderkammer)
Architecture has become sort of an exotic fruit. It just sort of happens in certain places where it gets watered. The more it becomes a special thing, the less chance we have to deal with it on a day-to-day basis. What architecture is and how it fits into the community is a story I want to tell…. If we can deal with the common ground [in] the profession then maybe we can deal better with common ground between all professions.
David Chipperfield, “On Common Ground for the Biennale,” Venice, Italy, 2012 (via wunderkammer)