Life out of a Suitcase
Some bits and bobs recently online; me not talking about the usual - specifically, SymbioticA's Visceral exhibition of art/science, for the New Humanist. In the same issue I review (and slate) the new book by John Gray which makes, oddly enough, very similar arguments to SymbioticA about the inability of human mind to truly comprehend the radically anti-human insights of its own discoveries, but the difference in execution is key... (apologies to the two women above if the photograph-taking distracted them from their work)
Also, a two-part (!) interview on Manchester at the excellent Manchester Mule; I'm also one of those in this series. Am still heading out around the country doing talks and such - in the next few months will be involved in promotional/talking duties of some sort in Leeds, Glasgow, Newcastle, Sheffield, Cardiff, Bristol, Milton Keynes, Birmingham, Liverpool, Wakefield, Lincoln and Manchester, so if you're in any of these let me know in the comments and I'll tell you where/when. Urban Trawl 2 is still in progress (off to the Valleys next, then Belfast, either Brighton or Blackpool, Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Croydon and Plymouth); I plan to start putting photographs and the already finished BD pieces online, soonish. There are plenty of other things I could write about recent walks in Whitworth St and Ancoats, Govan and Kelvinbridge, so they will be posted up in the unlikely event I have time to write them. By October I will have seen everything I want to see in the UK. Except Hull. And Cumbernauld. And the Leicester Engineering Building. (drops hint). Then I will be writing the other thing, about Eastern Europe. On which note, anyone in Kiev this weekend or Moscow in a month or so, or Warsaw for much of the next two months who wants to say hello, please do...
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Glasgow and Lincoln? I need my brutalist fix.
also, I used to live in Hull. get there quick-sharp!
Edinburgh
Hooray!
When's your talk in Cardiff? Will you be going to the sachlich (except for some Urban Splashing) Sully Hospital?
Oh, will you be in Edinburgh, Giovanni?
Cardiff - at the Uni on the 6th July; Glasgow School of Art May 5; Lincoln University June 30. Links when I have them!
The Leicester university engineering building is a strange site to see lit up at night and illuminating a snow covered Victoria park.
Oh, will you be in Edinburgh, Giovanni?
I wish! Alas, it's just that it's the only city in Britain that I know a little bit, and it would be great to read what you have to say about it.
Hello there,
Do you have any plans to speak in Edinburgh when you visit, do you know?
i've got contacts at both Lincoln University and the Glasgow School of Art... and could get you in touch with people from Strathclyde too if you're interested.
how exciting!
Sheffield? I emailed the university's architecture society here awhile ago in an attempt to persuade them to invite you to give a talk. Maybe it's worth you contacting them directly.
I'm not in Brum, but pop over there quite frequently. Lemme know when you're up.
What dates in Liverpool or Manchester?
Speaking of Warsaw, what did you make of the now nearly demolished CIECh building? ( http://s.coop/sbg )
@TheDialecticalBaker SUAS have granted your wishes. He's speaking at the Crookesmoor Building on April 7. (6pm I think)
I won't be in Moscow or Kiev in the next couple months, unfortunately, but the former city has been on my mind constantly for the last few weeks. You see, I have been digitizing microfiche records of Строительство Москвы (Building Moscow) and other early Soviet avant-garde journals. Lots of information on the plan for the reconstruction of Moscow, which later came under the ominous supervision of Kaganovich.
Anyway, I think I might have already posted some of these links on some older posts on this blog, but for anyone who reads Russian and is interested in these early Soviet avant-garde theoretical journals, please visit my site to download some full-text digitizations I’ve been working on:
1. OSA’s Modern Architecture (Современная архитектура) Free PDF Download/бесплатно скачать
2.Digitizing Microfiche: Строительство Москвы и другие Советские журналы об архитектуре (Building Moscow and other Soviet Journals about Architecture)
3. Строительство Москвы/Building Moscow Explained, Plus Some More Issues
4. The Major Works of Iakov Chernikhov
5. «Соцгород» Милютина (1930)
These feature original writings by Moisei Ginzburg, Leonid Sabsovich, Mikhail Okhitovich, Nikolai Ladovskii, Georgii Krutikov, Nikolai Krasil’nikov, Nikolai Miliutin, and many more.
Also, Owen, I remember reading on one of your old blogs that you were searching for an English translation of this really bleak and desolate city-planning handbook by Ludwig Hilberseimer written in 1927-28, and I actually came across a Russian version of it in this collection translated and arranged by El Lissitzky in a 1932 anthology. Would you still be interested in any extracts of it, even though it would be a translation of a translation? I don't know, that Platonic double-remove from the original (the whole poetic "copy of a copy" thing) bothers some people.
What date and place for the Liver pool? Ace, mgr
Wayne; Liverpool will be on May 15 for a guided walk; not sure of full details yet. Manchester will be a symposium at MMU on the 12th. Don't have links to that either. But those are the days.
Dan - Brum will be on the 18th (scroll down).
Will be speaking in Edinburgh when there; not sure when then, either. Sorry all this is so vague!
Martin - sadly I knew of that building, but never made it down there before demolition. Things move fast here...
Ross - thanks a lot for these - I've downloaded most of it from your blog already, but the offer of translation is very very helpful indeed. I'll be in touch - not about the Hilberseimer, which someone already kindly translated (though I had no idea it was published in Russian!), but about some other things - soon. By the way, where are you getting this stuff? I've been on the lookout for the Ukrainian Constructivist magazine New Generation, mostly unsuccessfully, so I'd be interested if you know of its whereabouts!
When and where are you talking in Newcastle? Thanks
Bristol is nearest to me. When? Where? Cheers :)
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