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September 9, 2010
Fashion Week, schmashion week. Architecture Week is just around the bend and Center for Architecture is hosting a bevy of lectures, tours, and events starting with a trip to Frank Lloyd Wright’s Usonian Home in Pleasantville, NY, and wrapping with a weekend of Open House New York. Full schedule here. [via AIANY]
Juergen Mayer H. will be lecturing at Rome City Vision Experience on September 21 at the House of Architecture. The project is essentially a task force charged with envisioning contemporary architecture solutions for the modern city. [via ArchDaily]
Into floorplan porn? Of course you are. Hightail it to Columbia University’s online archive of real estate brochures for a gander at 2,518 vintage blueprints of Brooklyn buildings. [via Brownstoner]
Inujima Art House Project designed by Kazuyo Sejima. Be patient and you will be rewarded with a blinking neon Japanese sun and a trippy, curved mirror wall. [via Architecture Lab]
Rolling out the most beautiful (or weirdest) maps: Not to miss are the Victorian-era “Road to Success” allegory, and the map of the United States divided according to the recent predictions of a Russian professor (who believes that soon, many of you reading this will be citizens of a state in the EU called Atlantic America). [via Dark Roasted Blend]
Floorplan of penthouse at 41 Eastern Parkway, via Columbia University/ Avery Library.
Kazuyo Sejima’s Inujima Art House Project, via ShinkenchikuSha
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Firemen struggled to contain a blaze at one of Le Corbusier's most significant works yesterday. -
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Planar and Architizer invite you to an evening of art and cocktails at the Cristin Tierney Gallery in Chelsea! -
New York-based office HWKN has won MomA PS1's Young Architects Program 2012. -
As it undergoes a gut renovation, Rotterdam's central administrative office has been transformed by 2012 Architecten.
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