Every man today realizes his need of sun, of warmth, of pure air and clean floors; he has been taught to wear a shiny white collar, and women love find white linen.

Man feels today that he must have intellectual diversion, relaxation for his body, and the physical culture needed to recuperate him after the tension of muscle or brain, which his labour – ‘hard labour’ – brings. This mass of desires constitutes in fact a mass of demands.

Now our social organization has nothing ready which can answer these needs.

Le Corbusier, Towards a New Architecture//1923

RUINS, Documents on Contemporary Art, B. Dillon

All City Canvases is an urban festival in Mexico City taking place from 30 April - 5 May 2012. The line up is to die for and we cannot wait to see the result of the best creative minds gentrifying the cities around the world.   What a World Museum it will be in a year or so ;) {photo courtesy Waone Interesni Kazki}
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All City Canvases is an urban festival in Mexico City taking place from 30 April - 5 May 2012.

The line up is to die for and we cannot wait to see the result of the best creative minds gentrifying the cities around the world.  

What a World Museum it will be in a year or so ;)

{photo courtesy Waone Interesni Kazki}

… we are presented with objects of an arresting novelty whose why and wherefore engrosses our minds, and fills us with delight and fear. All these objects of modern life create, in the long run, a modern state of mind. Bewilderment seizes us, then, if we bring our eyes to bear on the hold and rotting buildings that form our snail-shell, our habitation, which crush us in our daily contact with them - putrid and useless and unproductive.

Le Corbusier, “Towards a New Architecture (1923)

‘RUINS’, Documents on Contemporary Art, edited by Brian Dillon (2011)

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