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Going Green 1949 Style: Ice Cube Celebrates the Eames

Before Ice Cube became a rapper, he studied architectural drafting. Here he introduces the L.A. he knows and loves, and visits the Eames House. He describes the designers’ eclectic combinations of prefab materials as “mashups before mashups even existed.”

Ice Cube the intellectual.

(via theatlantic)

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

That’s Frank Gehry. The famed architect will take the stage at #ThinkFest this weekend, and we’ve got an opportunity to ask him one question. But we’d rather that come from you! So we ask: Do you have a question we can pass along to Frank Gehry? Tell us w/ a reblog or on Twitter w/ hashtag #AskFrank.