The West End of Frankfurt is opulent and partly gated. The atmosphere is sedate and filled with the exalted breath of those who know they have money power. There is a great sense of private property and I feel conspicuous taking photographs. Do they imagine I am a master criminal planning an elaborate heist? ItContinue reading “Ornament and Crime”
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Sketches of Offenbach
Making sketches can be a useful way to understand buildings. One tends to notice more because concentration is granted to the subject. One slowly improves and gets to the end with more or less the correct number of doors and windows, no floors missing and the roof and the walls joining together. Being in theContinue reading “Sketches of Offenbach”
Von Offenbach nach Sachsenhausen
The next day, I decided to go for a further walk. But first I did some shopping at the local supermarket and the baker’s. I have been reading Marshall Berman’s All That is Solid Melts into Air. The opening chapter which deals with Goethe’s Faust is densely packed with ideas and hints and suggestions. IContinue reading “Von Offenbach nach Sachsenhausen”
Commodity Fetishism 