u.s. library of congress flickr photostream

le corbusier _ plan voisin for paris, 1925

stuyvesant town _ manhattan 1945. fucking brutal, but a 'success'?

norman wilkinson _ dazzle camouflage paint, ww1
"According to Deleuze and Guattari, smooth space is occupied by intensities and events. It is haptic rather than optic, a vectorial space rather than a metrical one. Smooth space is characteristic of sea, steppe, ice and desert. It is occupied by packs and nomads. It is a texture of "traits" consisting of continuous variation of free action. The characteristic experience of smooth space is short term, up close, with no visual model for points of reference or invariant distances. Instead of the metrical forms of striated space, smooth space is made up of constantly changing orientation of nomads entertaining tactile relations among themselves." via christian hubert

smooth vs striated
'architecture is an art of distinctions within the continuum of space.' _ w.j. mitchell

from LA NOW v.4 _ thom mayne + ucla dept of architecture

* sketchbook scan circa 2002