CAFAM Granny Squared by Yarn Bombing Los Angeles

Yarn Bombing Los Angeles (YBLA) is behind an epic yarn bombing that covers the facade of the the Craft and Folk Art Museum (CAFAM) on Wilshire Blvd in Los Angeles, California.

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6Architecture Editor, Yarn Bombing Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA,

“Architectones at CSH 21” by Xavier Veilhan

Los Angeles Intervention performance at the Case Study House n°21 designed by Pierre Koenig, on Sunday 12th August 2012.

Photo © Joshua White

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6Xavier Veilhan, Art, Design, Architecture, Pierre Koenig, Los Angeles, California, USA,

ok, graffiti.

i mean, technically it’s attached to a building, so it’s tangentially architecture? right?

well, maybe i just have too broad an idea of what constitutes architecture, as i’ve included pictures of clouds and lizards on this site. but i’m a college drop-out, so what do you expect? an erudite and reasoned consideration of exceptional buildings? or pictures of lizards and graffiti? how about an erudite and reasoned consideration of lizards and graffiti? and buildings, too, on occasion.

i also have a really hard time spelling words with double consonants. like: ‘occasion’.  is that right? it looks like it should have 2 ‘s’s’.

so: graffiti. you have to admit, this graffiti is pretty remarkable. and it defines and establishes the space, far more than the building upon which it’s been painted. the building itself is kind of egregiously unremarkable. it’s only the graffiti that distinguishes the building from the few million other generic buildings in l.a.

i especially like the scary blue baby doll playing bongos. and the scary clown.

moby

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6Architecture Editor, Moby, Street Art, Graffiti, Los Angeles, California, USA,

see, l.a is a random city.  or, rather, a city of randomness.  and random things.  and a twisted unicorn spaghetti approach to cohesion. and because l.a is random i believe it would be odd to make any attempt to either shoe-horn or force any notions of cohesion onto it. even if involving dangling participles. like the last sentence.  sorry.

now, this building.  house.  bunker. it’s a random house in a random setting.  it’s modern and kind of brutalist and boxy.  it’s also grey, with dark windows. all well and good, but it presents a whole host of questions.

like, for instance, who wants to build a grey modernist box house on a desert hillside underneath blue skies and eucalyptus trees? i’m not saying it’s a bad choice, it’s just not necessarily the first choice many people would necessarily make when confronted with a building lot on a hillside surrounded by azure skies and eucalyptus trees.

i actually like this grey box house.  it’s simple and austere and utilitarian and it makes very little sense in it’s site/context, but it makes perfect contextual sense in a sprawling urban environment that’s fantastically devoid of cohesion.

i mean, a house like this could’ve been anything.  it could’ve been a beige hairball (as in: coughed up by a predator).  or it could’ve been a norman castle or a spanish hacienda or a mies inspired rectilinear glass box or a lautner spaceship.

it could’ve been anything.  and it’s a grey assemblage of boxes and dark windows.  which is great, i guess. baffling when scrutinized, but great.  cohesion is for sissies.

maybe that’s a new slogan for los angeles. along with: ‘los angeles, the first city of the apocalypse.’

ok, thanks.

moby

p.s-i’m also including a picture of a giant cross with downtown in the background.  it has nothing to do with this house.  except that they’re in the same neighborhood.  ok, thanks again.

Source : mobylosangelesarchitecture

6Architecture Editor, Moby, Brutalism, Los Angeles, California, USA,

Skyline Residence     

Architects: Belzberg Architects

Location/Year: Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles / 2007

Photograph: Benny Chan

Source : belzbergarchitects.com

6Belzberg Architects, Benny Chan, Architecture, Design, landscape, Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA,