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...Building for Change: The Architecture of Creative Reuseby Ruth Lang, Gestalten £45 Ruth Lang’s beautifully illustrated book eloquently articulates how the rigour of reuse, of having to think about an existing...
...Lang House, Washington, Connecticut, 1974 Perhaps not given its due in architectural history, the Lang House (1973-74) was a brilliant mash-up of Italian villa and playful Hollywood modern....
...Many of the newer applications include accommodation for staff, nannies and au pairs, a miserably literal translation of Fritz Lang’s 1927 film Metropolis in which the elite live a care-free life in skyscrapers...
...Edwin Heathcote is the FT’s architecture and design critic Photographs: APIC/Jim Dyson/Cameron Davidson/ View Pictures/UIG via Getty Images; Napper Architects...
...Edwin Heathcote is the FT’s architecture critic...
...Having listened to her views on Asian musical life, I decide it is time to mention Lang Lang....
...In the 1927 film Metropolis Fritz Lang shows us a future world of proles and drudges existing in an underground system of caverns while their bourgeois brethren frolic in the penthouses above....
...Similar visions periodically re-emerge in popular culture, in the workers’ underworld of Fritz Lang’s expressionistic film Metropolis, in the indelible final image of a submerged Manhattan in The Planet...
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...It is a powerful image, one the architect compares to a toppling Tower of Babel (the inspiration for Lang’s film). The appearance of decay, though, is more than a formal aesthetic device....
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