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Theater for One

by Tommy Manuel

I had the oppor­tu­nity this past Thurs­day night to be the sole audi­ence mem­ber at a per­for­mance in The­ater for One. For those not famil­iar, the project is the brain­child of Chris­tine Jones, a free­lance set designer. There have been two pro­to­types to date. The cur­rent one, T41-2, was design by Ada Tolla and Giuseppe […]

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Swimmin’ pools. [Architecture] stars.

by Tommy Manuel

If you had told me at the out­set of my archi­tec­ture education/career that I would one day be writ­ing about Brad Pitt on an archi­tec­ture blog, I would have sworn you had lost your mind.  And even now, despite that I have already typed the man’s name out and com­mit­ted him irrev­o­ca­bly to this post, […]

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Instantute’s Manhattan Studio, Fall 2009

by Tommy Manuel

Andrew Mac­Nair of the Instan­tute sent along the details of forth­com­ing Fall 2009 pro­gram for the Man­hat­tan Stu­dio. Hope to see you there!

Paint­ing by Andrew MacNair

Instan­tute announces the new Fall Man­hat­tan Stu­dio 2009 with two Stu­dio ses­sions: the first one runs from Sep­tem­ber 15 to Octo­ber 29; the sec­ond goes from Novem­ber 3 to December […]

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unForm + unSpace: Architecture of the unSeen

by Tommy Manuel

There is a genus of form and space that goes unseen. Every­one knows were they lie, but few ven­ture into their pres­ence. They pulse beneath our feet and writhe under the hum of traf­fic, rest­less and hun­gry for some­one to con­sume. Cav­i­ties and cages echo with the sound of painful empti­ness.
These are the undead, drift­ing between the shad­ows of the living […]

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The Space and Architecture of Israel-Palestine

by Tommy Manuel

Ethel Baraona Pohl posted this link to the image above with the ques­tion, “Is this archi­tec­ture?” Look­ing through other images on the site, I found the image below to be more illus­tra­tive of the archi­tec­ture, and par­tic­u­larly the space between Israel and Palestine.

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Eikonographia: A New Architecture Criticism, by Michiel van Raaij

by Tommy Manuel

This is a very inter­est­ing and rel­e­vant piece. You can read the arti­cle here. I can say from my own recent archi­tec­tural edu­ca­tion that much of the insti­tu­tion­al­ized archi­tec­tural the­ory and crit­i­cism is lost on stu­dents today, myself included.
This is not to say I or my class­mates didn’t find the­ory and crit­i­cism inter­est­ing, but rather […]

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Preserving an Architecture of One Piece at a Time

by Tommy Manuel

I love preser­va­tion­ists. Grow­ing up in the deep south, I was exposed to a lot of sen­ti­men­tal argu­ments about peo­ple, places, and things. Some ele­gantly framed, most not so much. There’s a lot of look­ing back, or as Elvis pop­u­lar­ized, “look[ing] away.”  I must admit that deep down there’s still some of that nos­tal­gia buried in […]

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