Category Archives: Life
The City of the Singularity Part 1: You See Us
What if machine intelligence was in complete control of the city and its citizens? Continue reading
California at London’s Design Museum
“Californian design has cruised a freeway to the future, but at some multi-level interchange, it may have left the road marked freedom” Continue reading
Posted in California, Design, Life, Urbanism
Tagged Apple, California, Captain America Chopper, Design, Design Museum, Emory Douglas, exhibition, freeways, Google, Los Angeles, Ridley Scott
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Touring the near and the elsewhere
On 11th February 2012, I joined Gaia Persico to give a talk about the exhibition ‘the near and elsewhere’ which she curated at the PM Gallery, Ealing, London. We had a good crowd! There’s big names in this show of photography … Continue reading
Posted in Contemporary Art, Life
Tagged 21st century urbanism, A Tuesday morning in Long Beach, Architecture of Density, Black Label, Chinese cities, Edgar Martins, Ferit Kuyas, Francis Alÿs, Gaia Persico, Greg Girard, Gregor Graf, Hong Kong housing, James Casebere, Michael Wolf, Nel Corpo della Citta, Noel Jabbour, Phantom Shanghai, photography, PM Gallery, Shanghai, The near and elsewhere, This is not a House, Thomas Demand, US property crash
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Long Live Chungking Mansions!
The even-floors Block-A lift in Chungking Mansions wasn’t going to stop bleeping, let alone move. Not until the unfeasibly tall man in a suit stepped out. He knew the score and obliged. ‘That was a big guy’ I commented to … Continue reading
