A+U Magazine by Yoshida Noboyuki (2000)

It’s almost one year since the passing of Paulo Mendes da Rocha, one of the undoubtedly great architects of the 20th century. As a reverence A+U Magazine already in December of 2021 dedicated a monographic issue to PMdR and several select projects, e.g. the MuBE, the Brazilian Pavilion at Expo 1970 in Osaka and his entry to the Centre Pompidou competition. As Daniele Pisani explains in his introductory essay, Paulo Mendes da Rocha was profoundly interested in creating spaces for encounters, artificial landscapes that had the quality of providing architectural experiences. These qualities are quintessentially present in the featured projects, low-rise structures that form a landscape in their own right, artificial yet compelling. Based on newly digitized archival material from the Mendes da Rocha archives at Casa da Arquitectura in Porto, i.e. models, photographs, drawings etc., the previously mentioned projects as well as the Serra Dourada Stadium, the Patriarca Square, the Contemporary Art Museum of the University of São Paulo project and, last not least, his own house provide new insights into how PMdR brought together sophisticated engineering, architectural landscape, a keen sense of interaction in the public realm and an overall sensibility to place and culture.

Against the background of the present richly illustrated issue of A+U one can only hope for more publications based on the architect’s archive in the future.

REBEL MAGAZINE | JUN 2023 PHOTO: JULIAN SONG WANJIE STYLIST: LOU WEI JUN

Mia Goth for Wonderland Magazine (2013)

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I was given a name before I was given blood

honestly i hate how that “maybe the curtains are just blue” post has become shorthand for anti-intellectualism and shit bc as someone who has an utter passion for media analysis now, I WAS THAT PERSON IN HIGH SCHOOL ENGLISH CLASS.

english class never taught me how to analyze stories, it taught me how to remember what things the teacher said were “symbolism” and how to take quizzes where we had to match a quote to the character who said it. i didn’t give a shit about any of it, bc literally why should i. it was bullshit.

there’s this idea online that people are forgetting or rejecting what they learned in english class when they’re bad at media analysis, and maybe that’s a little bit true, but i think the much bigger problem is they never learned it in the first place. cinemasins & “maybe the curtains are just blue” aren’t convincing people to abandon an intellectualism they already had, they’re filling a void.

when all you learn in high school is to write on the test “blue = depression”, why is it surprising that so many people don’t give a shit about the curtains.

Can't believe *interplanetary* old man yaoi is happening in the future what a time to be alive!!

Honcho zines and that butt ass naked dude looks like young Ewan McGregor

This is from one of the DR magazines (latest issue I think?) and I feel like the general public DESERVES to see this...

NASTY, DEC 2023 | VICIOUS SMILE FEATURING: PRADA BEAUTY PHOTOGRAPHY: KÉVIN DRELON MODEL: CAMELIA BOURBON MUA: LISA MICHALIK

@jeremypope in ‘Worth A Million’ on Vogue Magazine by C Prinz

THIS is the SEXIEST MAN ALIVE.

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hq fans still eating good years after the manga ended does furudate know I would commit actual crimes for him