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By Studio Sputnik, Lars Lerup
SNOOZE n. 1. The nicest moment of the day, between dreaming and waking, in a slumbering state of being. 2. Just one more push on the snooze button. 3. An exuberant exploration that couples the hallmarks of successful mass culture to the urban condition. What? Snooze, the book, is a visual essay produced by the young Rotterdam-based architectural practice Studio Sputnik. It purports to examine the ways in which architects can use mass culture. As any contemporary observer knows, mass culture is everywhere: it's a new network for mobile phones, it's a hip lifestyle magazine, it's a trendy brand of clothing. But until now, architecture and design have left the potential offered by mass culture virtually untouched.
sometimes the dutch are annoyingly brilliant.
this book is so whip-smart.
Posted by: Mason White on Jun 01, 05 | 11:28 am
Artsjournal PIXEL POINTS Nancy Levinson on architecture

The work of a Rotterdam design collective called Studio Sputnik, Snooze extends the inquiry begun a generation ago by architects like Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour, in Learning from Las Vegas, and continued more recently by Lars Lerup, in After the City — the exploration of how architecture, so long a redoubt of high culture, might interact with popular culture and mass media.
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Posted by: Javier Arbona on Jun 20, 05 | 12:46 pm