By Kristen Bateman
Photos: Jacob Lillis
"On a freezing afternoon smack in the middle of New York Fashion Week, the Irish designer Simone Rocha is roaming SoHo and Chelsea on the hunt for vintage photo books..."
By Kristen Bateman
Photos: Jacob Lillis
"On a freezing afternoon smack in the middle of New York Fashion Week, the Irish designer Simone Rocha is roaming SoHo and Chelsea on the hunt for vintage photo books..."
by Michael Jefferson
How does one design a city out of a void and invent spaces to function for the present and future dwellers? Cities are heaps of history through which rays of light and poetry emerge. However, people are what define the spaces of each building. Their movement and actions transform the spaces into a stage. The dilemma is one of sensation versus reasoning. Le Corbusier developed a plan, but the use can only be dictated and witnessed truthfully over time...
Interview by Paige Silveria
Photos by Mitchell Connell
The book focuses on the Indian city of Chandigarh, which was designed by Le Corbusier after the country won its independence in 1947. As the press release states, the book represents Le Corbusier’s deeply held conviction that “architecture is the skillful, correct, a magnificent play of volumes assembled in light.”
The photographer Martien Mulder’s new book, “The City Beautiful,” is an exploration of the quiet weight of the relationship between light and space in Chandigarh, India. After the country won independence in 1947, Le Corbusier was asked to design the city of Chandigarh. What he created, realizing his Modernist vision, became known as The City Beautiful. “Of course, as a photographer I am always chasing the light, and, in Chandigarh, the light is just a dream,” Mulder says. The photos she took there — and the resulting book — comprise Mulder’s homage to Le Corbusier’s core belief that “architecture is...
By Paige Silveria
"What do you think is the enduring legacy of punk culture on sexuality?
It was the gateway to making things more progressive. It created an open dialogue. I don't think young people today are shocked by gender issues and stuff like that. People can be more secure. The terrible way that it was when you would be victimized for being gay, hopefully it's now a thing of the past. Punk was sort of the first culture to embrace different ideas about sexuality. Previously, there was the 60s' sexual liberation, but that was pretty heterosexual. It wasn't until the advent...
by Lucy Jones
"The très collectable tome is out through Dashwood Books from September 1st, but you can start your education right now with Bruce LaBruce's personal essay about that punk life which we're psyched to be exclusively previewing here."...