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REAR WINDOW (1954) (The ultimate movie for a summer in Quarantine)

It has been said that this film evokes summer in the city like no other, and it feels particularly apt for one in which many of us have been confined to our homes. Windows in London are currently flung open due to a heat wave, and I’m finding myself much more conscious of my neighbours, of the routines of the street, and of the inherently communal nature of urban life. This emphasises the effect that climate can have on the way we experience and behave in buildings and cities - something which is often overlooked by designers. Another aspect of being confined to an apartment is that the details of the interior, and of the limited space visible from the windows, can seem to expand to comprise your entire universe. Few of us have had as absorbing a world to observe as Jimmy Stewart does here, however, as a photographer holed up in a small Manhattan residence with a broken leg, and nothing to do all day but spy on neighbours with his telephoto lens.  Architecture often played a central role in Hitchcock's films, and several commentators such as art historian Steven Jacobs have written about this at length .He discusses the symbolism of Rear Window’s set design in this essay and in the book The Wrong House: The Architecture of Alfred Hitchcock.  (Poster by Adam Simpson via missedprints)

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(via Erin Land (Halsne) @erin.land Home sweet home—s…Instagram photo | Websta)

Artist of The Day 

Katharina Grosse

It Wasn’t Us

2020

Acrylic on floor, polystyrene, and bronze

7 x 25.5 x 56 m

Escheresque- modern house allows flow by Berlin Wall memorial. video: youtube: Kirsten Dirksen

When Helle Schröder and Martin Janekovic (XTH-Berlin) signed a 199-year lease on some land along the old Berlin Wall, they had a permit to build a row house, but despite the two shared walls, they wanted something that felt airy and light-filled. ( text: Kirsten Dirksen)

Artist of The Day

Yang Jian

A Composite Leviathan

2018

Lead, rebar, wire, cement, polyurethane foam

137 ¾ × 59 1/8 × 59 1/8 in

(via Golden Mantra Mandala With Red Background)

“The Texture of Light,” Private Garage, Hong Kong, China,

Design Systems Limited

🌠 Yochai Matos ‘Eclipse’, 2008 #YochaiMatos #LightInstallation