Architecture, Design & Culture since 2004

Plug: Junk Jet

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I have a couple of pieces in the second issue of Junk Jet (link to suitably mid nineties animated gif-tastic website). One on the Popemobile, and the other on bad, really bad construction. Its great to see such a messy, un-resolved and obscure publication – one that would sit well amongst the archi-fanzines that make up Clip/Stamp/Fold. Equally, it seems it would be in good company in Mimi Zeigers upcoming show ‘A Few Zines: Dispatches from the Edge of Architectural Production’.

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Inside is a real gem – and almost completley unexplained. This project that combines brutalism with Elizabethan op-art half timbering. Anyone who knows me will understand that these images are like my dreams come true. I can’t help be both relieved that I’m not alone in being haunted by imagery such as this and jealously at not being able to articulate it quite so brilliantly.

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All it tells us is the following: “zeitguised: exhoused and blockhaus, filmstills, 2008”. What could this mean? Does anyone know any more about this project?

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