An émigré architectural historian who teaches across disciplines in California, at a public university near Apple’s lair in the Bay Area (close to San Francisco), is posting an essay.
Since architectural stories are surprising rare on the edge of the continent, he needed a shtick; no matter what’s his connoisseur-ish personal tastes and leftist political dispositions.
Simon Sadler published an essay on March 13/2013 in The Design Observer Group: “Steve Jobs: Architect”
Top: Apple store, Fifth Avenue, New York. [Photo by Eric Wüstenhagen]
Bottom: Steve Jobs and Rem Koolhaas. [Photos by James Mitchell, left, and Rodrigo Fernández, right]
Still from Urbanized. Image Courtesy of reSITE
Gary Hustwit explains the process behind a selection of his films. Urbanized, released in 2011, looks at the issues and strategies behind urban design, and Hustwit details how the feature-length documentary took shape after he attended conferences on urban design. The conferences, he noted, featured presentations with a large amount of text, making for presentations not accessible to the general public. Hustwit then goes on to explain the importance of translating information visually for a bigger audience and highlights the importance of knowledge sharing across cities. He mentions how displaying design ideas in cinematic form makes for better audience engagement, and how the general public is interested in who shapes their cities - but oftentimes they lack the accessibility to spaces that are having conversations about urban design. Hustwit also talks about his latest documentary - The Map - which follows the redesign of New York City
The Globe and Mail Jeremy Freed Published April 7, 2021
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“It’s important that we just don’t throw everything away all the time,” Ko Júbilo says. “Whether it’s an Apple Watch or a piece of furniture, there should be ways of forwarding that design further down the line.” That philosophy underpins all of the Vancouver-based designer’s work, which spans interiors, furniture, lighting and other projects that let him develop objects that are special enough to be passed from one generation to the next.
One of Júbilo’s most ambitious endeavours took that ethos to the extreme. Over the course of four years, he painstakingly undertook a frame-off restoration of his father’s beloved 1969 Alfa Romeo Giulia GT. He had no experience with automotive restoration, but worked evenings and weekends welding metal and sewing upholstery to bring the Giorgio Giugiaro designed coupe back to its original glory. “It was one of the most challe
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