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Best Products, Various U.S. Cites, 1970-1984
The Peeling Project showroom was first of nine commercial buildings designed for the BEST Products Company of Richmond, Virginia – a retail merchandiser of hard goods in the USA. Portions of the brick veneer of the facade are peeled away precariously into space, revealing the beyond. This sculptural innovation produces the effect of architecture in a state of tentativeness and instability. By engaging a context of normalcy, this intervention becomes a combination of routine utility with visual ambiguity. Since the project is not about formalist design, it explores the alternative relationships between art and buildings.
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In Steingruber’s alphabet, published in 1773, each letter of the alphabet is made into a plan of a palatial building. In some cases, as with A, there are two alternative plans. Accompanying texts explain the designs: in the case of A, there is a grand hall at the apex of the building, while its crossbar comprises a central passageway flanked by a pair of arcaded hallways, and, at the letter’s feet there are ‘cabinets’ and ‘garderobes.’ E is intended to house two sets of apartments, with main entrances top & bottom, and a chapel in the central prong of the building, which, Steingruber concedes, could equally well be made into a grand staircase, or a special reception room.
http://www.spamula.net/blog/2005/10/steingrubers_alphabet.html
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Typotecture: Lars Müller
catalogus: Typography as Architectural Imagery
een tentoonstelling in het Museum für Gestaltung, Zurich 200
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