Via The Architectural League, NY.

John Margolies: Roadside America
Celebration, book signing, and reception
Wednesday, April 14
6:00-8:00 p.m.
TASCHEN
107 Greene St.

John Margolies: Roadside America brings together approximately 400 color photographs of Main Street signs, storefronts, movie theaters and drive-ins, gas stations, short-order restaurants, motels, roadside attractions, miniature golf courses, coastal resorts, giant figures, and statuary. In an age when online shopping and mega-malls have reconfigured American consumerism, stripping away idiosyncrasy in favor of a bland homogeneity, Margolies’s 30-year survey reminds us of a more innocent, unpredictable, and colorful past. John Margolies is an author, photographer, and lecturer on American architecture and design.

For over 30 years he has explored America’s highways and byways in search of unique and prototypical commercial and civic architecture.

Why blogging this? A classical topic. How physical mobility informs/affects design. It reminds me of a more straightforward effect of transport… check the watermelon that Terzidis has photographed:

Image courtesy: Terzidis K.