The lasting impact of Expo 67 will be in the dramatic object lesson we see before our eyes today—that the genius of man knows no national boundaries, but is universal. [...] Anyone who says we aren’t a spectacular people should see this. We are witness today to the fulfillment of one of the most daring [...]
Beautiful article over on Design Observer about the influential 20th-Century Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen. He’s definitely someone my novel’s main character admires, especially when talking about the TWA Terminal of JFK International:
From a beautiful reflection in Maisonneuve about the crumbling Turcot Interchange in Montreal and what we ought to do about it. I wish I could have seen it then… When Montreal’s Turcot Interchange opened in 1966, no one had seen anything quite like it. Floating one hundred pillared feet above the ground, its concrete spans [...]
Architecture, as a discipline, can itself be used to tell stories. In fact, some of the most interesting student work today comes complete with elaborate plots and story lines, supplied for no other reason than to explain why a particular building should exist or require designing. These stories very often exceed today’s mass-market fiction in [...]
“Once asked by a magazine editor to name his favourite chair, Le Corbusier cited the seat of a cockpit, and described the first time he ever saw an aeroplane, in the spring of 1909, in the sky above Paris—it was the aviator the Comte de Lambert taking a turn around the Eiffel Tower—as the most [...]