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I looked down at the calendar to check the date and, lo and behold, it’s September 11th, the 34th anniversary of the US-backed coup that toppled President Salvador Allende and brought Pinochet to power in Chile. That act of terrorism resulted in thousands of deaths and made political prisoners of thousands more. Of course, 6 [...] Acceptable neologism? No? Architectural + Morality has a detailed profile of the architect chosen for Bush’s Library at Dallas. Parsing statements by Robert Stern, the chosen ‘tech, Corbusier concludes: …as Mr. Stern has suggested, the architecture will serve as subdued backdrop to what the ideas and themes the President has championed during the [...] Suburban Guerrilla extracts from The Rove Presidency the revealing truth about the lofty concerns of the politically powerful: To autograph or not to autograph. What I don’t understand about Bush’s strategy of indefinate detainment in Guantanamo for political reasons (as outlined by Brian Beutler) is that at some point, there will be a Democratic administration that will release people. Possibly not in 2008, but certainly by 2040s when detainees start dying of natural causes. When that happens, there will [...] So this is a little embarrassing:
A memorial for Hurricane Katrina was one of the first projects assigned in my architecture design labs. Wanting to differentiate myself, I decided to try for a memorial in the tradition of the Holocaust museum (i.e. not soothing). My memorial was an aquarium. The water was [...] |
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