The Ruins of Detroit // Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre
Keeping it simple. But not necessarily watertight…
From Alain De Botton, The Architecture of Happiness:
Le Corbusier promised that the problem would be fixed straightaway, then took the opportunity to remind his client of how enthusiastically his flat-roofed design had been received by the architectural critics worldwide: ‘You should place a book on the table in the down-stairs hall and ask all your visitors to inscribe their names and addresses in it. You’ll see how many fine autographs you will collect.’
Villa Savoye (1929) // Le Corbusier
Short edit of some iconic film title sequences from that legend of design, Saul Bass.
The Title Design of Saul Bass // Ian Albinson
“I like how each car is the perfect reflection of the driver, like dogs and their owners.”
Highway Portraits // Diego Gimenez
Hedi Slimane’s self-commissioned video documents his recent ‘California Song’ exhibition at MOCA.
Performance and score by No Age.
“A common misconception of a watershed is that it’s all about the water. While water does play a large part, the land plays an even larger role by directing the water to a common point, such as a river or ocean. Thus Man’s treatment of the land directly affects the water that runs over it.”
A Survey of the French Broad River Basin // Jeff Rich
