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OMD'S PORTABLE ARCHITECTURE "Nearly every American house I've lived in has long ago been demolished to make room for some other building. There is a delicious (though painful) paradox here: Americans long for stability, but all they get is stationary impermanence. No wonder then many of us long to become permanent nomads, snails with houses on our backs, Touareg tribesmen, and Gypsies." — Poet Andrei Codrescu, from his introduction to Mobile: The Art of Portable Architecture by Jennifer Siegal
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AVAILING FASHION Designed by architect Jun Aoki, the new flagship store of the French fashion house Louis Vuitton on Tokyo's Omotesando Boulevard resembles a pile of trunks of different sizes and patterns, honoring Vuitton's origin as a trunk manufacturer. Examine the facade more closely, though, and you'll see an industrial-looking system of wire mesh curtains that create the fashionable effect.
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More Architecture and Design Campus Library a Study in Contrasts — Los Angeles Times, 2003.0102St. Maria of the Angels by Mecanoo Architecten — ARC Space, 2002.1230 Zaha Hadid Architects Bergisel Ski Jump 2002 by Zaha Hadid Architects — ARC Space, 2002.1230 A Legendary Architect's `Last Works' — New York Times, 2002.1220 Design Is Unveiled for New City Hall — Moscow Times, 2002.1209 Award Winners Include Beach Houses and School — New York Times, 2002.1208 Fourth Grace Favourite Revealed — BBC News, 2002.1206
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