derelict sculpture in San Francisco
"for over a year now residents of the san francisco bay area have been treated to strange ephemeral but continuing manifestations of the creative urge. Hundreds of forms, ranging from the whimsical and playful to the evocative and absorbing, have appeared on the tidal flats bordering the east shore freeway at berkeley. Constructed between flood tides out of tin cans, tires, driftwood, structures that outlast the next high tide are rare. but like a frequent and aquatic phoenix a new sculpture appears where the old has fallen."
- arts & architecture - july, 1964
arch teaching slides usc

kid stuff found in the USC architectural teaching slide collection (via @andrew_romano_)
•children's playroom - cohen residence, san francisco, ca 1950. designed by Joseph esherick
•children's playroom - tremaine residence, montecito, ca 1949. designed by richard neutra
•bunk beds in a children's room - channel heights housing project, san pedro, ca 1943. designed by richard neutra
•kindergarten classroom - dolores elementary school, carmel, ca 1949. designed by ernest j. kump
•classroom shelf - experimental garden school, bell, ca 1935. designed by richard neutra
typography from Ant Farm's Inflatocookbook
typography from Ant Farm's Inflatocookbook.
the original Inflatacookbook was printed in January, 1971. The book was an attempt to gather information and skills learned in process and present it in an easily accessible format. The first edition of 2000 was printed on loose leaf paper in a vinyl binder in Sausalito, CA.
full PDF here
works by Jeffrey Shaw & Eventstructure Research Group
works by Jeffrey Shaw, co-founder of the Eventstructure Research Group (1969–1979)
a full catalog of Shaw's previous and most recent work is available here
• CORPOCINEMA - 1967, Amsterdam *
• SUPERTUBE - 1968, Amsterdam *
• PNEUTUBE - 1968, Amsterdam *
• HOMAGE TO BLADEN - 1971, Arnhem, Netherlands *
• CUSION - 1969, Amsterdam *
• WATER TOTEMS - 1969, Amsterdam *
• AQUA AIRGROUND - 1972, Amsterdam *
• WATERWALK - 1969, Amsterdam *
• WATERWALK TUBE - 1970 Hannover, Germany *
* produced in collaboration with theo botschuijver and sean wellesley-miller
related: Working big: a teacher's guide to environmental sculpture
United States Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information
Photogrammar is a web-based platform for organizing, searching, and visualizing the 170,000 photographs from 1935 to 1945 created by the United States Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information (FSA-OWI).
Most of these images have been available for years through the Library of Congress online catalog - but until now have not been this thoroughly organized (and sans LOC watermark).
via kottke
955,000
Index cards which made up the exhibition catalog for 955,000, an exhibition organized by Lucy Lippard at the Vancouver Art Gallery, 1970.
The index cards, sent in by the artists for the exhibition catalogue, give instructions for the construction and installation of works as there was no budget to either fly the artists in or to ship all artworks to Vancouver. The objects and installations were executed by Lucy Lippard herself, by Vancouver artists and other volunteers.
exhibition site here
more images/info here and here
previously: Ruins in Process - Vancouver art in the sixties
Dwelling: On Making Your Own
Dwelling: On Making Your Own, 1974
Freestone Publishing Co. Albion, CA 95410
Dwelling is by River a 38-year-old mother of three, a former suburban Maryland housewife, now a 'fiercely free' country woman living on the coastline of Mendecino County, California.
River, and Dwelling illustrator Leona Walden are also both former Salmon Creek Farm communards.
modular shelving units designed by Angelo Mangiarotti
modular shelving units designed by Angelo Mangiarotti (produced by Casaluci furniture)
via Design Italiano: I Mobili - edited by Enrichetta Ritter, design by Bruno Munari
related: Really? Angelo Mangiarotti Plywood Bunkbeads? (daddytypes.com)
culture breakers alternatives & other numbers by ken isaacs

ken isaacs' beach matrix on the sands of Westport, Connecticut
full project and text: culture breakers alternatives & other numbers
roger capron's home
roger capron's home, mercantour national park
263 route des launes, 06470 beuil france
architect: georges buzzi
more info here
kym maxwell's research material for her participatory arts project goodwill
kym maxwell's research material for her participatory arts project goodwill.
inspired by Palle Nielsen’s Model for a Qualitative Societyand and participatory art of the 60’s and 70’s, goodwill explores notions of spatial and social politics and questions about the importance and (decline) of kinesthetic play in everyday life. the research material is closely based on David Cashman and Roger Faginʼs work from the late 70’s.
architectural maquettes
architectural maquettes - via atlas of interiors
• Le Corbusier, Villa Cook, Boulogne-sur-Seine, France, 1926
• Ettore Sottass, bedroom for the Florence Biennial , 1965
•• Finn Juhl, Interior, Trondheim, Denmark, 1952
• Giacomo Balla, Casa Balla, Via Oslavia 39, Rome, 1929
• alvar aalto, villa mairea, noormarkku, finland, 1939
• Gerrit Rietveld, Harrenstein’s family bedroom, Amsterdam, 1926
ado doll house and furniture
ADO doll house and furniture, designed by Ko Verzuu, 1931
on loan from a private collection to the CODA Museum (via Collectie Gelderland)
previously: chairs designed by ko Verzuu
more pots and sculpture by barry flanagan
more pots and sculpture by barry flanagan
LA PETITE BIBLIOTHÈQUE RONDE
LA PETITE BIBLIOTHÈQUE RONDE (formerly La joie par les livres)
located in clamart, france, the library was designed and Built by the architect members of the Atelier de Montrouge with furniture by alvar aalto and Arne Jacobsen in 1965. the nine concrete cylinders that make up the building's structure are surrounded by a community garden designed by émile prévosteau. It has played a central role in the 'recognition and dissemination of children's literature' and remains 'engaged in the fight against inequalities in access to art and culture.'
* prints of the above black and white photos by MARTINE FRANCK are still hanging in the library today (here & here)
more images & info:
astudejaoublie: pt. 1 / pt. 2 / pt. 3
magnum photos: martine franck
wiki commons: user: starkoss
bibliotheque kandinsky: archives
getty images (watermarked): Edouard BOUBAT
richard demarco archives
images from the richard demarco archives
•sculpture by cambell macphail, edinburgh, july 1968.
•chamonix by michael tyzack in his london studio. edinburgh, 1969.
•zbigniew warpechowski performance as part of atelier '72. edinburgh, 1972.
•Carolyn Thomas working on a sculpture which she exhibited at the Edinburgh Arts exhibition, 1976.
Ree Morton's Studio
Ree morton's studio
(trying to date this image by the test pieces on the floor.....1975?)
previously / related: ree morton - drawing papers 87