There are plenty of reasons to hate The Fountainhead, but how fucking romantic were the descriptions of architectural drafting? Slicing up space itself, piling up iron and concrete at monolithic scales. Julie Mehretu has something beautiful going as well, but as Rebecca said during our Times Square crits, there’s a beauty in truth. (or the suggestion of truth, or planned truth, etc etc, you know).

http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/  is another good collection on architecture, urban planning, built-spaces in general. I’m obsessed! Great interviews and thought-provoking articles all around.

drawingarchitecture:

Diamond Mining Complex by Laura del Pino, Columbia University, Fall 2009.