From National Geographic: “Massive beams of selenite dwarf human explorers in Mexico’s Cave of Crystals, deep below the Chihuahuan Desert. Formed over millennia, these crystals are among the largest yet discovered on Earth.”
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Strange Harvest is written and edited by Sam Jacob
sam@strangeharvest.com
Sam is a director at fat.co.uk, experiments at samjacob.com, teaches at the AA in London and UIC in Chicago. He is contributing editor for Icon & columnist for Art Review.
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Archive
- Obscure Design Typologies: Fumigation Tents
- S.P.A.M Office / Pieterjan Ginckels
- Man Made Moon: St Paul’s as Selenosphere
- Old Flo House
- Hausu Of Tomorrow
- Anything to Feel Weightless Again, Again
- Architectural Doppelgängers at the AA
- Substance: Classical Architecture, Precision Engineering, Military Hardware and Dewy Nature
- Show & Tell: Our Fancy Fences: An Anthology of Domestic Kitsch / Giacomo Magnani
- Marginalia #1
- Industrial Light & Magic
- Powerless Replicas & Dud Twins: Thoughts On Placebic Objects
- Nostalgia for the New
- Villa Rotunda Redux & The New Originals
- reCAPTCHA Mansions
- Architecture’s Exquisite Corpse: Another Kind Of Folding In Architecture
- Obscure Design Typologies: Fire Training Towers
- Ground Xerox at the AA
- Events This Week
- Aesthetics / Anesthetics at Storefront
- Ground Xerox at the AA
- Excerpts and Extracts
- ‘Make It Real’ Published by Strelka Press
- Strange Harvest Resurrection
- Show & Tell: ‘My Blogspot’ by Paul Davies
- Obscure Design Typologies: Courtroom Docks
- So Lonely: The Architecture of Hugh Grants Face
- Versioned Chairs at Send To Print
- Helvarial
- Half Timbered Fields
- Untitled Brick Wall
- Those Who Walk Through Walls & Other Hertzian Tales
- Obscure Design Typologies: Gorilla Enclosures
- Obscure Design Typologies: Palindromic Objects
- Events: AD Book Launch, Architectural Doppelgängers Panel & OMA as ‘Educator’
- A Walk In The Ruins Of Modernism
- Bonaventure Adventure
- Radical Post Modernism
- Room Service at KK Outlet
- Reverse Pruitt Igoe
- Riots, The Privatised City, Networked Urbanism and the Pretzel Logic of Looting
- Croydon Slash New York: Networks, Riots & Markets
- Three Films: A Clock, A Cave & A Kiss
- Show & Tell II: Experiments in Freedom / David Knight
- Design as Magic, Magic as Design & Live Levitation!
- Obscure Design Typologies: Show Jumps
- Urban Planning Nostalgia
- Goal / Fence
- On Sketches for Regency Living
- At the ICA & in San Rocco
- Show & Tell: Evicting the Ghost / studioBASAR
- Trailer: Copying & Magic
- Obscure Design Typologies: Cricket Scoreboards
- A Song For Project Europe
- Burying Le Corbusier
- Instant Bin Laden Compound!
- The Massed Gadgets Of Albion/Saxe-Coburg
- Exploding, Inevitably
- Solid Cement
- Cities Destroyed for Cash (Then) Blame The Architect
- Riots, Crisis, Architecture and Cities: Damon Rich & Wouter Vanstiphout at the AA
- Spatial Collapse: The Venetolona Pavilion
- Minimalism, An Obituary
- New Broom
- Trash Can Fantasy
- Versioned Chairs
- Rip It Up & Start Again
- Denise Scott Brown, Queen of the Desert
- About A Minute
- Alphabetti Spaghetti Dinners
- Pruitt-Igoe
- The Terror and Romance of SketchUp
- No Dust Adheres
- What I Found When Searching For Dara Birnbaum
- Design Criminals
- Corporate Mountains
- Adding Confusion to Complexity And Contradiction (in Belgium)
- Deep Copy
- Upside Down & Inside Out Picnic Table
- Airport Chapels
- Drawing Workshop, Venice Biennale
- Steven Meisel: Desire, Fear and Beautiful Stupidity
- Sherlockopolis
- Resurrecting the Dodo: The Death and Life of Urban Planning
- Sex and the City 2: Big Screen Urban Theory
- Pound Shop Baroque
- Boring Video Games: Escaping the Tedium of Digital Fantasy
- Geography Collapsing
- Obscure Design Typologies: Photocopiers
- Brutalist Cottages, Bamboo Rolexes & Other Back-To-Front Speculations
- Obscure Design Typologies: Incident Tents
- Postopolis DF
- Election Aesthetics
- Sign Language
- The Worst Condition Is To Pass Under A Sword Which Is Not One's Own
- Design Will Kill Us All, Horribly, Again & Again
- More Scenes In Cartoon Deserta
- Eiffel X-Rays
- Beyond: Values and Symptoms
- Sub Plan
- Shenzhen: Window of the World
- White Power
- Generic Powerpoint Template: Delivering Bad News
- Duplicate Array
- 24
- The Best New Building In London
- Book Review: The Infrastructural City
- A Balloon in the Pantheon
- Letters From The Pantheon
- Henry Moore in Motion
- 52
- On My Steel Horse I Ride
- The Michael Jackson Monument Design Competition
- Now Showing: John Baldessari Sings Sol LeWitt
- Obscure Design Typologies: Life Guard Chairs
- Osama bin Laden Cigarette Lighter: Novelty Products as Congealed Culture
- Absurd Car Crashes: A Eulogy for J.G. Ballard
- Candy Pistol
- Now Showing: Dan Grahams 'Rock My Religion'
- This Concrete 'O': On Serotonin, the M25, and the Motorik Picturesque
- Church of the Literal Narrative
- Philadelphias Floating Architecture
- Strange Harvest Visits: Archizoom, EPFL, Lausanne
- Strange Harvest Visits: Le Corbusier at the Barbican
- Strange Harvest Visits: TU Berlin
- Now Viewing: Married To The Eiffel Tower
- Le Corbusiers Image Hoard: Poeme Electronique
- Giant American Signs: Original Learning from Las Vegas Footage
- Giant Soviet Signs Cut Into Forests
- Bricks Melted Into Icicles: Napalm Decorative
- C-Labs 'Unfriendly Skies' & 'Bootleg' Volume
- The Foolish House
- 2 The Lighthouse: Self Storage & Architectural Hallucinations
- Ceci N'Est Pas Une Pipe: Infrastructure as Architectural Subconcious.
- Viva Sectional Cinematography!
- Now Showing: The Installation of an Irreversible Axis on a Dynamic Timeline
- Plug: Junk Jet
- 79
- Sim Seasons Greetings! The Rise of Neo-Winter
- 81
- Geography in Bad, Festive Drag.
- The Ruins of the Future
- High Tech As Steampunk …
- On The Retro Infrastructural
- Simulations of Industry: High Tech Architecture and Thatcherism
- David Greene: The Big Nothing
- From The Factory to the Allotment: Tony Wilson, Urbanist
- Koolhaas HouseLife / Gan Eden: The Revenge of Architectural Media
- Offshoring Audacity
- Vernacular Spectaculars: On Pop, the Everyday, and Escapology
- Leg Work
- World Architecture Festival
- 94
- Ruburb-ric: The Ecologies of the Farnsworth House
- Lubetkin Lecture
- The Architecture of Divorce
- 98
- Flagrant Delit: The Movie
- Landscape as Clothing
- Telly Savalas Looks At Birmingham Redux
- Wild Thing Interiorism
- Acts of Un-Building: Timelapse Demolitions
- 104
- Event: Koolhaas HouseLife @ The Barbican
- 106
- Event: The Evolution of Plastic in Design
- Yard Filth: Next Years Hot Look
- Foam City
- 110
- Stonehenge: A Black Hole At The Heart Of British Architecture
- Replica Victoria Falls
- 114
- The Popemobile: Mechanised Robes & Motorised Architecture
- Tarmac Adam, Tarmac Eden
- The Secret Language of Surface
- Some Housekeeping
- Information Fields: Agriculture as Media
- My Bloody Valentine: Sound as Substance
- A Cubist Copse: Gehrys Serpentine Pavilion
- Olympic Model Protest
- Spouting Off: Some Thoughts On The Fountainhead
- Form Follows Dysfunction: Bad Construction & The Morality of Detail
- Floating Homes
- Vintage Tradeshow Surrealism: International Grune Woche
- BLDGBLOG'S 4th of July Interview Marathon
- Log 12
- Hayward Petcha Kucha
- Moving Houses: Buildings In Motion
- The Fountainhead
- Define Your City: Lessons on the Architectural Characters of London
- Desktop Study: The Strange World of Sports Studio Design
- Married to the Eiffel Tower: More Objectum Sexuals
- 60 Years of The Crazy Horse Memorial
- Married to the Berlin Wall: "The Best and Sexiest Wall Ever Existed!"
- Inflatable Icebergs: Sublimated Guilt Has Never Been So Fun
- The Cinderella Effect: Phantom Architectures of Illumination
- Two Deaths and a Retirement: The Strange Shape of British Architecture
- If London Were Like New York: Antique Schizo-Manhattanism
- 41 Hours in an Elevator: The Movie
- NASA: Mapping the Moon with Sport
- Lemon Squeezy: Design Tendencies after the Juicy Salif
- Stadium Seat Mosaics
- The Nihilistic Beauty of Weapons Arranged in Patterns
- Light Vessel Automata
- Dogs: Britains Greatest Design Obsession
- Madison Avenue Modern
- Detroit Sucks: The Motor Shows Last Gasp
- Mies' Grave: Cut Out Model
- All You Can Eat
- Valentine Machine
- The Tools of Re-Geography
- Floating in a New Town Sky
- Authentic Replicas: Football and the Franchising of Place
- Folk Football: Landscape, Space and Abstraction
- Haystack House
- A Wishing Well with a Fat Up Pipe
- Pseudoccino: Instant Coffee Foam
- Yesterdays Technology, Today
- Blown Up: More Inflatable Military Stuff
- On Christmas Trees, Folk Forests and Staples Office Supplies
- Hampton Courts Shrouded Sculptures
- Named Fabric: 20 Sponsored Pieces of Architecture at the New Museum
- Form Follows Felony: The Secret Home of the Un-Dead Canoeist.
- Architectural Magazines: Paranoid Beliefs, Public Autotheraphy – More on Clip/Stamp/Fold
- Little Magazines Seen Today
- James Bond Lives Next Door: Suburban Imagery as Industry
- The Ghost of Christmas Futurism
- Petrified War Machine
- Military Deceptions
- Chapters for an Imaginary Book About Architecture
- Shrouded Plinth – Urban Striptease
- In the Night Garden – Surreal Landscape of Nostalgia
- Kim Jong II, The Great Architect
- Pill Box Picturesque
- Un Clear Monument
- Place Faking: Instant Heritage for the Thames Gateway
- The Marc Bolan Memorial Crash Barrier.
- Warped Domesticity
- The Nuclear Heritage Coast
- Enjoy The Silence: Bose Noise Cancelling Headphones
- The Story of O (2)
- Telly Savalas Looks At Birmingham
- X100: A Design Exercise
- How to Plan A New Town
- Carpet Bomber
- In Search of Britains Vehicular History
- Scenes in Cartoon Deserta
- Scary Suburbanism: Why Horror is at Home in the Suburbs
- Re-Make Re-Model
- I Like Your Manifesto, Lets Put it to the Test-o
- How to Become a Famous Architect
- Northampton – Sci-fi Pop Planning Promotion
- Advertising Central Milton Keynes
- Baltic Exchanged
- Festival of Nostalgia
- The Clapham Trainwash
- Airports as Music
- Test Card Dummies
- The Velvet Underground at the Glass House
- Duplikate: Kate Moss on the Production Line of Individuality
- The Museum that Ate Itself
- Hollow Inside: Starbucks Foam and the Rise of Ambiguous Materials
- Revisions to the Architecture of Hell
- Crufts: Dogs, Design and Aesthetic Genetics
- Eos Airlines: Executive Bubbles over the Atlantic
- London's Ugliest Buildings
- 1.51 Miles Of String
- Google Earths Vertiginous Mapping
- Church of the Ascension and Descension
- Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles
- Replica Bombs
- The Invisible Bungalow
- House / Boat
- Reading Lines: Skateboarding and Public Space
- Mountain Sculpting
- Sint Lucas in BD
- Old Walton Bridge
- Kiruna: The Town That Moved
- Spray On Magnetic Defense
- Chris Cornish: Prototyping History
- The Jubilee Gestalt Vase
- The Most Visited Location in the UK
- 'Its beauty will know no season'
- 2000 Years of Non Stop Nostalgia. Or How Half Timbering Made Me Whole Again.
- Inside-out Aldwych
- Backpeddling into the Future: The Historical-Futurism of British Architecture
- Miss Selfridges' Feeling for Fake Snow. The Oxford St. Lights and Why We Need Artificial Winter
- Nelsons Cavern
- Foam Gargoyle
- New Tory Logo: A Hazy Shade of Politics
- Jeff Koons, Rem Koolhaas, Hans Ulrich Obrist at the Serpentine
- Souvenir Empire
- Celebrity Scents: The Bittersweet Smell of Success
- Imperfect Pitch – Football, Space and Landscape
- Product Placement: Making the Impossible Possible
- Suburban Growth: Matthew Moores Field of Dreams
- Perfect Sound Forever: The Secret Function of High End Stereos
- Picture of the Week 1
- A Little Light Product Placement
- Some Advice To A Young Designer
- London and on and on
- In the Gallery of Ice Creams
- Useless Proclamations for a Beautiful City
- Mini Mies Chair
- Topsy Turvy VSBA: Inverted Heros of an Upside Down Avant Guard
- Harvest III: Buried Things
- The Harvest I
- Estuary Urbanism
- The Royal Families Trees
- Everything Flows: ideological cartography
- How Geostationary Was My Valley?
- The Psychotic Utopia of the Suburbs and the Suburbanisation of War.
- LegoLand London Cluster
- In a Lonely Place – Under Construction
- Design Will Eat Itself
- Marchitecture. Architectural things to do in London this March
- Metallic Jet Powered Cloud
- "When we got married I had no idea he would do something like this, he just said he was going to do some decorating."
- The Electric Cenotaph
- Russian Rok
- Dinner in the Iguanadon
- Trace
- Highways
- Fork Hook
- Rest In Peace
- California Dreamin'
- What happens when you cross a pen with a car?
- Leg Table Leg
- Florentine Building Sites
- Good Morning Britain
- Football Pitch: Best of British
- The Sad Photographer
- The First Cut is the Cheapest – Blenheim Palace: pop architecture that goes for the jugular
- Book Now For Christmas
- Requiem for a Toilet Seat
- Architecture that Destroys
- TomTom Mobile 5 / GO 700
- Winning Design
- Another Croydon
- Holiday Snap II : Giant Glowing French Balls
- Holiday Snap: Canadian War Memorial, Vimy, France
- Pecha Kucha London
- Big Bens
- First Cut – Case Closed
- The Texas Tower
- Its All About the Big Benjamins
- G8 Security Tower
- White Cubed Blues
- Poundbury, unexpectedly, in the rain
- The Exploding Concrete Inevitable. Lou Reed and the Casa da Musica
- Swingball
- Untitled (Plastic Sack and Timber)
- Berlin 1945 – The Obscene Picturesque
- Football, Abstraction and Urbanism
- Pizza Planet
- Goal Sculptures
- Interview: Jeremy Deller & Alan Kane
- Previewing Cedric Price
- The Mardas Touch
- Building a Lionel Richie Head
- Ornament is Grime 2
- An Incredible Smell of Roasting Coffee
- Flatpack Frenzy at New IKEA
- Langlands & Bell – The House of Osama Bin Laden
- Happy Death Men
- Build to Let
- Architectural Criticism gets Sharp
- Niagara Falls
- Ornament is Grime
- FA(ke) Cup
- Q&A: Wouter Vanstiphout
- X-treme urinals
- Unigate Cowscape
- Spray-on Snow
- Complete the following assignments:
- From the Baffler …
- One in a Taxi
- The Queen Machine
- The Knork
- Venturi, Scott Brown and my love that dare not speak its name.
- Polictical Placards
- The Ketchup Conumdrum
- Douglas Coupland: Design and Fiction
- It's a Small World
- Images de Parfums
- Soft Carcass
- Christopher Dresser at the V&A
- Blow up Pub
- Municipal Mummification
- The Matt and Ron Show
- Semi – detached
- Half Timbered Van
- Feltham Future
- Favorite Things
- Fugitives and Refugees' – Chuck Palahniuk
- The Pop Vernacular
- Design by Chefs
- Just What is it That Makes Yesterdays Homes So Different, So Appealing?
- Archigrams Pastoral Futurism
- Sorry Mies
- Mac OS X.3
- Thomas Heatherwick Conran Foundation Collection
- Tarmaceden
- MTV Cribs
- Resident Evil – Gothic Architecture Reanimated
- In the Twilight of the Magicians
- The Flaming Lips – Live.
- Goodbye Piccadilly
- Design for Babies
- Silk Cut. The Last Cut is the Deepest.
- Kripsy Kreme
- Everything Counts – The Sound of Geography Collapsing.
- The London Evening Standard.
- General Electric Halogen Candle Light Bulb.
- Aromatherapy Washing Up Liquid
- Carlton Terrace Extension
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