Tag: urban life

Resident Alien

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An exhibition at the Austrian Cultural Forum New York exploring the cultural contributions of Austrian architects that emigrated to the United States. Divided in five themed sections spread from the lower all the way up to the upper mezzanine of the ACFNY’s gallery, that is itself housed in a building designed by Austrian-American architect Raimund Abraham, it felt like an immersive experience, greatly appreciated by this humble resident alien.

  • Coop Himmelb(l)au || Central Los Angeles Area High School #9 for Visual and Performing Arts, 2002-2009
  • Adolf Loos || Josephine Baker House, 1927 – 11 Avenue Bugeaud, 75116 Paris, France (Model photography)
  • Le Corbusier and Josephine Baker attending a costume gala aboard the Lutetia, December 1929. Their outfits and makeup were controversial and have lead to cultural debates challenging binary norms and delimited monist oppositional ways of thinking. Bi-isms occupy, deconstruct, and open up potential spaces of the in-between
  • Richard Neutra || Lovell Health House, 1927-1929, Los Angeles. Photograph by Julius Shulman
  • Rudolph Schindler || Charles H. Wolfe Residence, 1928-1931, Avalon, Catalina Island, CA. Pencil and ink on paper
  • Rudolph Schindler || Charles H. Wolfe Residence, 1928-1931, Avalon, Catalina Island, CA
  • Rudolph Schindler || Charles H. Wolfe Residence, 1928-1931, Avalon, Catalina Island, CA
  • Liane Zimbler (with Carl Schwarz) || Candianides Residence, 1961, Ventura, CA. Photograph by Leland Y. Lee
  • Charles Paterson || Boomerang Lodge, 1961, Aspen, CO
  • Hans Hollein || Urban Renewal in New York, 1964, Project perspective
  • Peter Trummer || Pile-City Vienna, 2015, Digital image
  • Peter Trummer || Pile-City Vienna, 2015, Digital image
  • Peter Trummer || Pile-City New York, 2016, Digital image
  • Herwig Baumgartner || Los Angeles Residence, 2018
  • Coop Himmelb(l)au || The White Suit Project, 1969
  • Haus-Rucker-Co || Palmtree Island (Oasis), 1971, New York
  • Carl Pruscha || Vision for Global Urbanisation: Global Linear City, 1963
  • Carl Pruscha || Vision for Global Urbanisation: Global Linear City, 1963
  • Victor Gruen || Welfare Island Project, 1961, Roosevelt Island, NY
  • Erwin Hauer || Design 2, Church in Liesing, 1951, Vienna, Austria
  • Victor Gruen Associates || Wilshire Terrace, 1959, Los Angeles. Photography by Julius Shulman
  • Josef Frank || United Nations Headquarters, 1947, New York

November 9th, 2019

Manhattanhenge Pandemonium || July 2018 Edition

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The real picture

[wiki:  Manhattanhenge is an event during which the setting sun or the rising sun is aligned with the east–west streets of the main street grid of Manhattan, New York City. The sunsets and sunrises each align twice a year, on dates evenly spaced around the summer solstice and winter solstice. The sunset alignment occurs around May 28 and around July 13. The sunrise alignment occurs around December 5 and around January 8. Excellent places for viewing Manhattanhenge are 14th, 23rd, 34th, 42nd, and 57th Streets.]

July 12th, 2018

Roosevelt Island Cherry Blossom Festival

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The cherries blossomed late in 2018. But once the did, they were glorious.

To celebrate the cherry blossom season, every year, Roosevelt Island holds a Japanese cultural event with music, dance and performances. I loved the Taiko Drumming, and I wasn’t the only one. That long line you see above, was to catch the aerial tram to Roosevelt Island. I’d never seen such a long line at the station before – nor such crowds on tiny Roosevelt Island.

April 21st, 2018