Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera Houses/Studios (Mexico)

Designed by their friend, Juan O’Gorman - architect/painter. Home from 1934 - 1940. Rivera’s is the larger white box, while Kahlo's is the blue one.

I love how the two volumes abstractly capture the physical and maybe emotional relationship between this couple. The buildings are linked by a walkway, visually reflecting their joined but separate lives. I’m guessing the space between the buildings was not great enough and the cactus fence is a great touch.

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Kahlo looks so unlike her typical depiction in this photo.

Kahlo looks so unlike her typical depiction in this photo.

Carpenter Center for Visual Arts (Cambridge, MA)

Completed in 1963, Corbusier’s only US project. He would never visit this project due to ailing health and would die in 1965 at 77. I can only imagine he had his most trusted people overseeing its execution, as It is beautifully three dimensional and complex and holds up to the test of time.

Also, worth checking out are Transparent Drawings by Kurt Ofer - a way of thinking about drawing/painting that embraces space.

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Art

I was planning to make some pieces again. Now it feels like therapy, in a good way.

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Andrew Goldsworthy

Seth and I had conversations (not infrequently over the years) about the power of ephemeral art. My initial thoughts about how to memorialize Seth, Adam and Andy is to make something Goldsworthy-esque (over the summer) in the area where he and his close friends died. Something that will require revisiting over time to either reassemble or make anew. Something that will surely be a group project. Something subtle. Something beautiful.

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Gordon Matta-Clark (June 22, 1943 – Aug. 27, 1978)

Matta-Clark was best known for artfully dissecting buildings that were slated for demolition. He studied architecture at Cornell but never went on to work at a traditional practice. His art brought attention to a world where buildings (and their histories) were being erased at an alarming rate. It’s believed that his efforts brought further attention to the Historic Preservation movement of the 70s, which would see buildings such as Grand Central Station, several of Louis Sullivan projects and many others, saved.

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Mural Wrap-Up

First, GO VOTE! (if you haven’t yet) and second, swing through the alley behind our house and check out the completed mural by Nina Marasco (if you live in Denver). She’s hoping to design more around town (and maybe beyond) over the winter, then hopefully start painting again in the Spring.

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Jennifer Townley - Artist

Technically these are sculptures but practically they are pattern machines: slow moving, beautiful, motorized creations that make every changing shapes. See videos here.

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IKEA

IKEA has been at it since 1950 and each year has created a catalogue. The IKEA museum has released a way to see every page of each years’ catalogue since they first started. I recommend you try and find the one of your birth year and see how far (or not) we’ve all come.

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