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Saturday 6 April 2013

A Spacious Hive

"A Spacious Hive well stock'd with Bees,
That lived in Luxury and Ease;
And yet fam'd for Laws and Arms,
As yielding large and early Swarms;
Was counted the great Nursery,
Of Sciences and Industry."
Bernard Mandeville, The Fable of the Bees, 1705

John Leighton - Plan for hexagonal boroughs - 1865 - via Kosmograd

Konstantin Melnikov - Melnikov House - 1927 - Moscow

Du Besset-Lyon Architects - Lons le Saunier Library And Cinémas - 2012 - via ArchDaily

Technology reaching it's fulfillement - Charles Sheeler

"Wherever technology reaches its real fulfillment, 
it transcends into architecture."
Mies van der RoheBlackstone Hotel Speech on April 17, 1950



Charles Sheeler - The Upper Deck - 1929

Charles Sheeler - Water - 1945

Charles Sheeler - Golden Gate - 1955


"Any sufficiently advanced technology 
is indistinguishable from magic"
Arthur C. Clarke, Hazards of Prophecy: The Failure of Imagination, 1962