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Boavista Futebol Clube 75/76

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Excavation of the Royal tombs of Ur. This photograph gives some idea of the depth in which some tombs were buried.

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From Franke Reade Weekly Magazine, 1893.

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Igloo City

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BERNARD RUDOFSKY

ARCHITECTURE WITHOUT ARCHITECTS, 1964

protective buffered microclimates formed by windscreens of pine trees in the open landscape of Shimane Prefecture,Western Japan

photographer : SUSUMU HIGUCHI

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Multimedia Studio - SANAA

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Izis [Israëlis Bidermanas] (1911–1980) :: Funambule. Lagny, 1959

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Jean-Luc Godard - Le Mépris (1963)

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Banca Popolare (1973-78) in Verona, Italy, by Carlo Scarpa

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Heritance Kandalama, Geoffrey Bawa, 1995

As I mentioned in a recent post on South Asian Architecture, Geoffrey Bawa's work has finally received the cinematic showcase it deserves, with two films dedicated to his buildings released in the past two years. The Sri Lankan architect was a formative figure in tropical modernism, blending buildings with nature, and vernacular traditions and materials with western modernism. 

Neither BAWA’S GARDEN (2022), nor GENIUS OF THE PLACE (2023) are available to stream online yet, but this video also provides an interesting introduction to Bawa's life and work. Photo: Frederic Lagrange/Trunk via nytimes