Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person. — Zaha Hadid
Archives for February 2014
Global Architecture Star Zaha Hadid: BBC Video plus my column for e-architect
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtLusC7zkvs ++++ My column for e-architect begins: Joel Solkoff’s Column – Volume II, No. 2 Writing on architects plus their role in the imminent global Baby Boom housing crisis Zaha Hadid’s Miami compared to my life in rural “Rust Belt” Pennsylvania “Miami has long been the economic and commercial capital of Latin America, both English […]
SUBSTITUTE. Katy Perry still plays Cleopatra not going down the Nile; an indoor exploding Cleopatra
My apologies: Katy Perry IS Cleopatra here. She is NOT going down the Nile River. Instead, here is a different version. This version is an indoor live concert complete with singing, screaming and dancing attractive audiences formed in a circle around the kind of floor show displays lavish Las Vegas made famous. [Full disclosure: […]
“Husbands would start wondering why they needed wives at all.”
“If there was one figure who came to symbolize the dazzling new American kitchen and all its astonishing appliances, as well as the revolution in selling and advertising that was taking place, it was Betty Furness–the Lady from Westinghouse. In 1949 Betty Furness was thirty-three, an ingenue whose career was winding down after thirty-six films […]
Motto February 2014
People have been looking at the environment, as environment, for only a very short time. It has always been there, but it has finally been recognized as something that is terribly responsive to acts of will and judgment that have an endless impact on the state of humanity. The way we live, or exist, is […]
Robbing poor children of the ability to smile
“More than 16 million children in the U.S.—22 percent of all children live in families with incomes below the poverty level.” This quote is from Columbia University’s National Center for Children in Poverty. Dental Crisis in America,The Need to Expand Access, a February 2012 report from the Subcommittee on Primary Health and Aging, U.S. Senate […]