landscape[+]architecture
from disappointment cleaver, mount rainier [june 2004]
ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. the cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins; we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. it is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future; but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. we’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
d. lawrence
decent take on another situation in which rapid deployment of shelter is critical. although what still needs to be made explicit is that the language of “temporary” and “permanent” depends on clearer terms of engagement. relief shelters can be more than just protection from the elements: homes and business incubators and infrastructure and…
Ruth Fremson/The New York Times
project archives from coloco, operating from paris.
The skeletons are structures without frontages. These buildings testify to very diverse anomalies in the good progress of the operations of construction.
Given up, unfinished or partially destroyed, their silhouettes point out the destruction as much as construction.
