Atlanta’s Contemporary Art Center has humble beginnings. Formally Nexus, the art center stems from a grassroots art movement back in 1973 by Atlanta photographers and has upheld those roots by featuring smaller artists. The center even promotes an in-house artist residency program. They have helped work in the redevelopment of the Atlanta community after the renovation of […]
Newhouse, Victoria. Towards a New Museum. New York: Monacelli, 1998. Print. Victoria Newhouse, published architectural historian and author of Towards A New Museum along with other works, has focused on examining spaces as they relate to audience, service they provide, and effectiveness among other things. She claims that she, “merely observe(s) and assess(es) what others […]
Emily Bazelon’s New York Time’s Magazine article “Making Bathrooms More ‘Accommodating’” addresses some of the social norms challenged as of late. Namely, bathrooms are being taken under new scrutiny due to the now more widely accepted notions of gender fluidity. Restrooms have always been seen as gender specific and therefore constraining places. People have long […]
Suzanne Tick’s His & Hers: Designing for a Post-Gender Society addresses gender roles are applicable to our modern society. She notes that sexuality is the trademark of “male and female” especially perpetuated through technology and media. As we watch this transition, Tick believes that designers from fashion to architecture should be mindful of the social implications […]
Oakland Cemetery, built in 1850 and located in the heart of Cabbagetown Town in Atlanta, GA, is as serene and tranquil as one might imagine a cemetery to be. In contrast the MARTA trains screeching halts in the distance and the hustle and bustle of busy streets and livelihood parallel to the grounds you enter […]
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Kaemmerlen, Cathy. The Historic Oakland Cemetery of Atlanta: Speaking Stones. Charleston, SC: History, 2007. Google Scholar. Web. 26 Jan. 2016. Cathy Kaemmerlen, prominent southern storyteller and author, wrote The Historic Oakland Cemetery of Atlanta: Speaking Stones as an in depth overview of the history of Atlanta’s famous Oakland Cemetery. The book describes why and Oakland […]
Irina Nersessova’s Tapestry of Space examines Margaret Morton’s books The Tunnel: The Underground Homeless of New York City and Fragile Dwelling. She begins by explaining what these books were focused on- some of the poorest streets of New York captured on camera and in word. Nersessova also explains the ideas and materials behind Morton’s’ work […]
Sarah Schindler’s Architectural Exclusion examines an inconspicuous form of discrimination that may be more prevalent in our day to day lives than any other. This inequality goes unnoticed as it lies in regulation of the built environments we live in, but we simply see them as something as inconvenient as a one way road. As […]
Urban design is a “form of regulation” (1939). This quote may in fact be considered the thesis of Schindler’s “Architectural Exclusion.” As entire piece is written to explain what this means. Examples of urban design being the way a bridge was built in a city to prevent public transit to be able to drive underneath […]