This past summer we mentioned that Richard Neutra’s Kronish House could be set for demolition — a move fought by Neutra’s son Dion among others. This week the Beverly Hills City Council voted not only to set new rules for demolishing or altering structures at least 45 years old and designed by a “city-recognized architect,”…
For a breathtaking look at one filmmaker’s visual dialogue with the built environment, check out the short film The Third & and The Seventh, a “FULL-CG animated piece that tries to illustrate architecture art [sic] across a photographic point of view where main subjects are already-built spaces. Sometimes in an abstract way. Sometimes surreal.” Among…
This has been a good month for architecture in our collections! First the Archivision material that is now in MDID, and now a payload from UC Berkeley. The Visual Resources Center at UCB’s College of Environmental Design has made an enormous contribution to our UC Shared Images collection available in ARTstor. More than 20,000 images…