Tag Archives: Architecture

1928: Holiday in Bangkok

Posted on December 9, 2017 by corvusfugit

Map, frontispiece, and cover of the Royal State Railways’s Guide to Bangkok with Notes on Siam (1928); the frontispiece shows Wat Arun at night.

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1867: Historical Monument of the American Republic

Posted on November 12, 2017 by corvusfugit

Erastus Salisbury Field: Historical Monument of the American Republic (c. 1867)

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1784: Cenotaph

Posted on November 3, 2017 by corvusfugit

Etienne-Louis Boullée: Cénotaphe de Newton (1784); for his proposal for a cenotaph for Isaac Newton, Boullée envisioned a 500-foot tall sphere encircled by plateaus containing hundreds of cypress trees. (source)

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1912: Monument

Posted on October 19, 2017 by corvusfugit

John Russell Pope: Competition Proposal for Lincoln Monument (1912); Pope’s firm designed the National Archives and Records Administration building (1935), the Jefferson Memorial (1943) and the West Building of the National Gallery of Art (1941).

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2015: Rebuild

Posted on October 7, 2017 by corvusfugit

Theaster Gates’s transformation of an abandoned bank in Chicago. “Rebuild Foundation is a nonprofit organization that endeavors to rebuild the cultural foundations of underinvested neighborhoods and incite movements of community revitalization that are culture based, artist led, and neighborhood driven.” … Continue reading →

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1927: City of the Future

Posted on October 2, 2017 by corvusfugit

Lev Vladimirovich Rudnev: City of the Future (1927)

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1927: Dancing on the Bauhaus Roof

Posted on September 30, 2017 by corvusfugit

T. Lux Feininger: [Charleston on the Bauhaus Roof] (1927); the dancer is Xanti Schawinsky and Clemens Röseler is playing the banjo.

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1963: Bauhaus Cake

Posted on September 15, 2017 by corvusfugit

Cake in the shape of the Bauhaus building in Dessau, Germany, served on the occasion of Walter Gropius’ 80th birthday, 1963. (source)

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1943: Miniature Mount Vernon

Posted on August 29, 2017 by corvusfugit

This miniature reproduction of the West Parlor of George Washington’s Mount Vernon was crafted by Narcissa Niblack Thorne. The photo on the left shows the room being prepared for exhibition at the Baltimore Museum of Art in 1943. Thorne’s detailed … Continue reading →

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2015: Under Construction

Posted on August 27, 2017 by corvusfugit

Anna Pantelia: from the series Recycle (2015) (source)

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