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Speakers and Musicians at the March on Washington

Of all speakers, none was more memorable than Martin Luther King, Jr., who delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech during the program (transcript here).The still photo at the top is from the National Archives, ARC Identifier: 542068.

Part of a week-long series of gifs from The March, the James Blue documentary about the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, restored in 2013 by The National Archives. You can view it online here. 

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Pfarrkirche St. Anna (church) Düren, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany; 1951-56

Rudolf Schwarz, Maria Schwarz

see map | + architect | + pictures | information 1, 2

via “Rudolf Schwarz, Gedächtnisausstellung des BDA Köln, gefördert von der Akademie der Künste Berlin”; F. H. Kerle Verlag Heidelberg (1963)

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Leon Battista Alberti - Basilica di Sant’Andrea, Mantua

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Hardelot Theatre in France

The Hardelot Theatre by Studio Andrew Todd is a 400-seat Elizabethan theater made almost entirely of wood (except the basement level), the cross-laminated structural timber walls and floors serving as the finish material on the interior, larch paneling cladding the exterior. An ultra-lightweight cylindrical screen of bamboo will help the building to dissolve into its remarkable natural site. Naturally ventilated through a plenum under the stage with extracts in the building’s crown, its energy use will be exceptionally low.

See more ARCHy here.

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Conversion of the chapel and great hall at Burg Rothenfels am Main (plans showing different proposals for lighting and room organization) Rothenfels, Bavaria, Germany; 1928

Rudolf Schwarz «Rudolf Schwarz’s conversion (…) gave the Quickborn headquarters a modern form, shockingly modern for some. The room was cleared of all decoration and the walls whitewashed. The altar table and circular chandelier, both clearly still influenced by the Arts and Crafts Movement, stand out all the more against the plain white background. In the great hall, the wiring for the tubular glass lighting on the ceiling and the arrangement of the wooden seating at floor level allow the large empty room to be used for lectures, congresses, song or prayer.» – via ‘Sacred Buildings, a Design Manual’, Rudolf Stegers; Birkhauser, Basel (2008)

see map | about the architect | related information 1, 2

via “Rudolf Schwarz, Gedächtnisausstellung des BDA Köln, gefördert von der Akademie der Künste Berlin”; F. H. Kerle Verlag Heidelberg (1963)

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Fragments of Justice Luca Sironi

This project consists of a serie of 27 photographs representing the courtrooms of 19 Italian courthouses.

The Italian justice system moves slowly, involving every day an impressive number of people. In the courtrooms there’s a continuous bustle of judges, prosecutors, lawyers, defendants, witnesses, clerks, journalists and policemen. This crowding is replaced by the typical quiet of the closing hours, when the deserted courtrooms do not seem to forget the speeches and debates: a lawyer’s robe thrown over a chair, a folder waiting to be rescued, marginal elements that may in some way bring to mind an idea of what happened during the trials. These are fragments of feelings, perceptible only if we take the time to observe, as external viewers, these areas when they are not used. Suddenly what you know about justice can take shape.

The human element. Uncertain and unpredictable. In contrast to these courtrooms, so rigid and symmetrical that if you look carefully, it seems to have the duty to appear ruthless. The photographs were made in the courthouses of Asti, Bergamo, Brescia, Busto Arsizio, Como, Cremona, Lodi, Mantova, Milano, Modena, Monza, Padova, Parma, Pavia, Reggio Emilia, Rovereto, Trento, Verona and Vicenza.

Images and text via

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Cathédrale Louis-Marie-Theodore Dauphin via

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Plan for Total Theater in Berlin by Walter Gropius, 1926.

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Adrian Maben (director), Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii, Amphitheater, 1972

Francesco Venezia, exhibition “Pompeii and Europe”, Amphitheater, 2015

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No Longer the House of God

The new life of the deconsecrated churches in Italy.

Artist: Andrea Di Martino

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Ilkka Halso, Theatre II 2008

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Cargolifter airship hangar in Germany. Note the three people at the lower left for scale.

(In June 2003, the company’s facilities were sold off for less than 20% of the construction costs. The airship hangar was converted to a ‘tropical paradise’-themed indoor holiday resort called Tropical Islands, which opened in 2004.)

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Charles Robert Cockerell, altitude comparison: european gothic buildings and the pyramid of Cheops, 1840. Drawing. England. © Kunstbibliothek der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Photo: Dietmar Katz

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Project for a theater in the ruins of Gibellina (Teatro all’aperto ai Ruderi di Gibellina) Gibellina, Sicily, Italy; 1990

Francesco Venezia

Taken from “Francesco Venezia: L’architettura, gli scritti, la critica”, Electa, Milano (1998)

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The Nymph of Amalthea, 1780s