Household Monsters

The House that Spawned a Million Mini-Malls

This is Dickie House, by Rob Krier (1976)

When Rob designed this house,
it was all about Golden Sections and sophisticated references 

Rob is of course the older brother of Leon Krier 

both super influential post-modern neo-traditionalists

little did they know that this would end up being 

the blueprint for every mini-mall and rite-aid store 

in Whateverville

and the signature porch would be home to every passing homeless.

Intriguingly the perfect cube house has a room for a household spirit

which is maybe an entity from another time?

that lives amongst the lines of the suddenly super interesting line drawings

Some Days all I want to do is

hide inside a Wendell Castle 

Horizontal Isolation Unit

Buildings and a piece of meat

Interesting article on the current situation of architecture 

and how it relates to a piece of meat, 

by always great Jan Aman

The End of Sifnos

Great Kaleidoscope

Just contributed a text on MOMA's 1972 New Domestic Landscape 

and Gaetano Pesce contribution in particular 

to one of my favorite magazines, Kaleidoscope.

Check out the great issue for an interview of 

Markus Miessen by Hans Urlich Obrist, 

great stuff by Richard Hawkins, 

a lovely text by our very own Sylvia Kouvali of Rodeo, 

and much much more.

St Saviour and the Gates of Hell

one of the days in Sifnos, we decided to check out some of the hiking paths

the one that lead to St Saviour sounded the most exotic

the church was cute, in an abandoned way

a tree mysteriously bent towards the ground

weird keys and instruments lay at his feet,
as the earth cracked

then we skipped to the actual crack, 

a old mining area right next to the water

it looked more like a cave

got darker as you went further in

and somehow upsidown, maybe too scary to venture too deep

but you know how sometimes in movies 

you see a little monster and you think its cute, 

and then the mountain next to it starts moving 

and you realize its the mother?

just a few meters away, was the mother of all excavations, several stories deep

a huge drop, and you would find yourself dead at the gates of hell

Folk Fantasia

while in Sifnos, we stayed in a fantastic folk farmhouse

 full of suggestive accumulations

and perhaps random couplings

sober rooms with a slightly 70's ascetic minimalism

new books made friends

 some locals

fought dances

in abstraction

super scary bottled threats

that we took outside to examine carefully

Fashion explosion

I am entirely convinced that the future is Papier-mâché

Johnson Wax for no reason

I never thought I would blog a Frank Lloyd Wright building, but this has been sitting at the image folder for ever, so maybe by posting it I'll find out why it was there. or maybe not.

maybe it's because it looks kind of interesting under construction

its also very cool as finished

or even under analytical demolition

the hall falls under the "I always love a lotus flower ceiling" building