ABOUT designKULTUR
My passion for architecture, design, and urban planning was sparked by the discovery of Brasília — the City of the Future — in an old copy of National Geographic when I was in grade four.
Those two domes and the original “twin towers” thrilled me. This was the future! I knew then where I wanted to travel to when I grew up!
Here’s what started it all:
That one article convinced me that Oscar Niemeyer was a demigod and that architecture was an important and intriguing subject.
My interest in design, culture and the environment grew when I saw images of Montréal’s expo 67 in other magazines. More visions of the future …
My love-hate relationship with Japan (I’ve lost count, but I think I’ve travelled to Japan at least 15 times and lived in Tokyo for a year) began with Japan’s answer to Montreal: Expo ’70: “Progress and Harmony for Mankind” in Osaka. I fell for Kenzo Tange and Taro Okamoto …
(Arthur Erickson, Le Corbusier, and Richard Meier are other gurus of mine.)
Over the years I’ve travelled a fair bit, making architectural pilgrimages and delving into other cultures, teaching myself about some of the things you’ll find in my blog. I believe in lifelong learning!
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I hope you’ll enjoy my visual scrapbook and perhaps learn a few new things or be tempted to research them yourself.
I believe that we’re now living in a “snippet culture,” so I try to keep my writing to a minimum and let the images, videos, and links speak for themselves.
I’m trying to act as a web editor, finding the best links to expand the topics of my posts.
I try to reference all the images I use that aren’t mine: most of the images on designKULTUR click back to their source. Please let me know if I’ve overlooked your credit.
Enjoy!
Cheers,
MICHAEL FRANCIS McCARTHY
P.S. About the name of my blog: as my interest in architecture blossomed as a child, I found the Bauhaus to be an inspiration. The German spelling of “culture” in designKULTUR is my homage to that generation of European designers who had such a tremendous influence on design, culture + environment.
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