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6/27/03:

A contemporary look at Victorian Visions of the year 2000 - a narrated collection of c.1899 cards predicting the technologies of the year 2000 - presciently brings out the inherant goofiness in how the industrial world has actually turned out - one still given over to many a Victorian-derived spectacle for sure.

[via traveller's.]

Also through the utopian vein, Changing of the Avant-garde is a quite fascinating Flash documentation of an earlier MoMA show of architectural drawings on the "radical projects" that mark design's many Modern/ Postmodern rifts. Rem Koolhaas's City of the Captive Globe from the 1970's is a particularly refreshing rediscovery of an aesthetic of congestion, a radical assertion easily refined into the more comfortable terms of New Urbanism and we're all the better for having it around.

posted by jeremy @ 10:50 PM

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