Matt Shaw
Theodor Seuss Geisel, also known as Dr. Seuss, was a prolific architectural thinker. His experimenta l drawings show speculative domestic architectures: houses and pueblo-like villages with oddly sloped roofs, multiple off-set levels and wild color schemes, always looking as if they were on the verge of falling over. They were something like a cross between an…
Imagine if you could take Photoshop out into the streets and use it to change the world around you. Shrub, Linked by Air’s drawing app for iOS, lets you do precisely that, or at least part of that. The city (or landscape) becomes the material for a clone-stamp-like brush that grabs your surroundings and lets…
Architecture and especially historical monuments or statues can often become implicated into war and cultural cleansing. Unfortunately, that usually means simply wiping them off the face of the earth in the misguided attempt to do the same to whatever culture they represent. The terror group ISIS is of course not above some good old fashioned…
Did you know that pre-fab construction dates back as far as the pilgrims, who shipped a disassembled house from England to Cape Ann, Mass., so that the new settlers would have a well-constructed place to stay? Thanksgiving might have taken place in a pre-fab house that was assembled onsite. Today, the unhappy hipsters in Dwell…
About one year ago, a report surfaced that North Korea had successfully landed a man on the sun.  220;This just in: North Korea has landed a man on the Sunday. Seventeen-year-old Hung Il Gong started his journey at 3am this morning, traveling alone, to reach our nearest star, a journey that took him just 4…
Living off the grid — independent of the municipal water supply, sewer, natural gas or electrical po wer grid — has long been a dream of survivalists and environmentalists. The autonomy of a self-sustaining house is attractive to them because it not only saves energy, but it also lessens dependence on the government. In the case…
For All-Star weekend, the NBA released an AMO-style interactive map of the history of New York City basketball. The colorful map shows a long history as diverse as the city itself, from prep stars such as Queens’ Bob Cousy and Brooklyn’s Lance Stephenson to the storied histories of the Knicks and Nets. Full interactive map…
Why is post-apocalyptic architectural photography so powerful? Is it because we subconsciously hate architecture, like Freudian self-loathing artists? Or is it because the apocalypse seems so imminent, for so many reasons? Probably a bit of both, but we are always reconsidering architecture’s role in both our world and the speculative world of post-apocalypse. If you’re…
Five years shy of its centennial this year, the Brooklyn Army Terminal spent the first half of its l ife fulfilling its original purpose as a military hub. Sited just opposite the northern tip of Staten Island, the industrial park was the largest concrete building when it was completed in 1919 and subsequently the U.S.’s largest…