ORDOS REVISITED
A couple of years ago, the architectural world was buzzing with news that a hundred or so up-and-coming architects had been chosen to design villas in a new real estate development in Ordos, Inner Mongolia. While I am not aware of the present status of that project, the latest New York Times report on Ordos [...]
Posted at 2:12 pm on October 20, 2010 | 3 comments | Filed Under: LW, NEWS | Tagged: housing, China, real estate speculation | read on
MIES IS MORE (amended)
(above) Lafayette Park row-housing, Detroit, designed by Mies van der Rohe. Is this what Mies van der Rohe meant by his remark, “Less is more”? A minimal architecture enables a maximum variety of living within. The spare and relatively neutral frame that such an architecture places around space not only allows without conflict all manner [...]
Posted at 1:09 am on October 16, 2010 | 9 comments | Filed Under: LW | Tagged: Mies van der Rohe, row housing, modern architecture, social diversity | read on
