PUBLIC MARKS with tag toread

A precursor to Alexander’s A Pattern Language, in which he and Chermayeff define what’s wrong with the design of the suburbs, and outline the principles behind a more human (and urban) environment. As interesting for its approach to the problem as it is for any of the proposed solutions.

Éloge des voyages insensés par Vassili Golovanov traduit du russe par Hélène Châtelain. Éditions Verdier, 2008 506 pages ISBN : 978-2-86432-443-0

Artist Mel Bochner became a writer, he says, almost by accident. In 1965, as a young artist in New York, he was out of a job; Arts Magazine paid him $2.50 for every review he turned in, whether they published it or not; a month of review-writing paid his rent--$28.00 a month.