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Not so long ago design magazines defied conventions. Merci Thomas for the info!

Architectural Design, June, London

Diffuse romantic lighting sets the tone of Adrian George’s cover art for Architectural Design’s June issue on Osaka Expo ’70—two robots go at it on a leopard print bed, ecstasy writ large on closed eyes, privates tastefully shrouded in darkness. The promise of Expo’s architecture and media spectacle prompted editor Monica Pidgeon and Technical Editor Robin Middleton to send critic and AA graduate Martin Pawley to the front lines of Osaka. Pawley returned, pitting architecture against the movies, form versus content, asking of the impending technological revolution or apocalypse (your choice): dancing android or tomorrow’s slave? The monsters featured on the front page of Pawley’s article encapsulate the heart of the mythic cum futuristic Osaka phenomenon, as Daiei Motion Picture Company’s Gamera, a mutant turtle character created to rival the success of Toho Studio’s Godzilla, battles Monster X on the grounds of the Expo. Dissecting the Expo giant, Pawley calls out nine notable Japanese pavilions: the most magnificent, the most grandiloquent, the most cumbersome, the most disappointing, and so on, in effect creating a phenomenological diary of affects. The monthly section “Cosmorama” greets readers with a blue monochrome Japanese crowd at Expo waving hands, mouths open wide in joy, welcoming the world and heralding the new Japan. Assuring the full AB to Z of the Expo, Britton Harris and J. B. McLoughlin write on such topics as “I” for inflatables, “K” for Kurokawa, “O” for opposition, and “T” for time capsule. “Y” for yesterday juxtaposes an orange mushroom cloud rising in the background with a blue row of smiling Expo Flowers (pavilion hostesses) lined up in front, their matching outfits, down to the handbags and gloves, providing a glimpse of the mechanized and harmonious future in absolute counterpoint to the brutal toll of yesterday’s apocalypse. SC

The café opens to a terrace with view to the sea… And that appeals to us Euros :) How come the city neglected its harbor for so long? With the Institute of Contempory Art (yesterday was the opening day), the architects Diller + Scofidio propel Boston to its new age. Like a vision machine, the architecture frames the harbor and finally gives it a raison d’être.** The architects are among my favorite… for that they have questioned boundaries, travel, globalization… all of these themes that inform my neo-nomad inquiries! They are the architects of the Blur building and the permanent installation of the Moscone Convention Center… to follow!

** not taking into account global warming and the rise of sea level…

Dove Self Esteem Fund’s campaign for real beauty feeds the reflection on cyborgs. Thank you Cati for the info!

screenshots of the movie clip ‘evolution’

An article in lemonde.fr: La danse s’offre l’univers des nouvelles technologies by Rosita Boisseau LE MONDE | 08.12.06 | 15h25 makes me think of another relationship between the digital and the body… a link to remember as I dwell in cyborgs’ stories:

Screen shot, compagnie Magali and Didier Mulleras