QUESTIONING CATASTROPHE
Enough time has passed for us to not feel like voyeurs of disaster, or guilty exploiters of human tragedy. Rather, we can look at these images with a more objective eye, seeing them as types rather than only as documents of a shocking human catastrophe. As types, they give us enough emotional distance to learn [...]
Posted at 11:22 pm on January 23, 2012 | 9 comments | Filed Under: Lebbeus Woods | Tagged: earthquake, Honshu, Japan, tsunami | read on
YENDO’S EX-PROSTHESIS
In his latest projects, Masahiko Yendo is presenting us with some of the strangest designed objects I have ever seen. To confound their mystery (I cannot think of a better word) he describes them in terms that suggest these objects serve highly rational purposes. The objects, some of which appear to be dwelling places for [...]
Posted at 1:48 pm on January 20, 2012 | 5 comments | Filed Under: Guests, Lebbeus Woods | Tagged: architecture, design with waste | read on
