mañanarama

By the 1940s the expansion of the city made this relatively flat -- albeit very rocky -- area of interest to speculators, among whom was the architect and landscape gardner Luis Barragán...(Whoa. First...

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1965

April 9, 2010, 1:21 am

Luis Buñuel, Simon of the Desert. (1965)More on The Desert, faith, technology, consumerism, gadgetry and endless-loop mutually dependent negative relationships:Sam Jacob, "More Scenes in Cartoon...

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left

May 13, 2010, 12:38 pm

So little is left of so many things.

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sentimental

May 19, 2010, 12:54 am

How do we distinguish the historic from the sentimental?

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authoritarian representation

May 20, 2010, 8:19 am

Architecture as authoritarian representation.

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neglect

May 24, 2010, 4:06 am

Note to self: reflect on the value of neglect.

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rise

May 27, 2010, 2:37 am

I wonder how soon we'll be able not only to digitally store, but also resuscitate.

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oh-woh baby

May 27, 2010, 10:31 am

I was unaware of the African-American Female Singing Norteño Covers on Youtube sub-genre.

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burnout

June 10, 2010, 9:12 am

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34 - 61

July 22, 2010, 9:02 am

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old

August 1, 2010, 11:37 am

When I was growing up, the future was limitless possibility, jet-age, space-age techno-utopia. “Modern” meant new. Now, modern means old, and the future I grew up seems dated, irresponsible, obsolete....

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peace train

August 7, 2010, 3:39 am

The aestheticized infrastructure of the Revolución Pacífica.

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modern preserves

August 23, 2010, 10:36 pm

"Preservation is not the enemy of modernity but actually one of its inventions." Rem via David.

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transition

August 28, 2010, 12:40 am

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lost

September 2, 2010, 8:47 am

How do you preserve what's already lost?

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fiberglass ambassadors

September 6, 2010, 9:12 pm

Je ne passe jamais devant un fétiche de bois, un Boudha doré, une idole mexicaine sans me dire: C'est peut-être le vrai dieu. Charles via Walter

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flight of the calder

September 12, 2010, 4:39 am

The dashing Pablo León de la Barra has a great series of posts on his latest trip to the homeland at the CFTAR blog. The latest one features a series of before and afters of the Mexico City Camino Real...

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