Dystopian office

1960’s: The dawn of the age of the cubicle. The redesigned open plan office conceptualized by the Germans in about 1958 did not endure long before the new cubicle era dawned. The office landscape design, or Bürolandschaft, that was believed to facilitate collaboration, flexibility and cost-savings barely had time to make its mark before it […]

Completed in 2015 in Lima, Peru. Images by Nicolas Villaume, Juan Solano Ojasi . This new facility will supply the largest windscreen ever produced for a passenger car in the history of the automobile. Over 1 hectare of...

French actor, director, screenwriter and producer Jacques Tati's masterful 1967 comedy “ Play Time” is a classic satire on modernist architecture, urbanisation and tourism, a perfectly orchestrated city symphony Tati’s gloriously choreographed, nearly wordless comedies about confusion in an age of high technology, reached their apex with Play Time where characters, story, and dialogue are all but absent, creating a lasting record questioning whether the new is really all that better than the…

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