Bought this vinyl a few years ago, Is from 1956  by Reynolds Metals Company which made a record about modern architecture featuring interviews with leading architects of the day. Saarinen, Neutra, Mies are questioned about the future of Architecture. From the album we can read:

"With architecture, the best thing is to experience it. Next best is to see and read about it. Perhaps the least thing is to hear about it. Sometimes though, the spoken word will strike a person with a natural aptness that makes it understood and remembered beyond all the others. Here are some parts of informal conversations tape recorded over the period of the last year in the offices and homes of seven U.S. architects. They were made separately but have been brought together on two sides of this standard 33 1/3 RPM phonograph record."


Conversations Regarding The Future Of Architecture.

SIDE II - Speaking both about their own roots in the past at the same time offering some thoughts for the future, are these leading architects: 

MIES VAN DER ROHE generally acknowledged one of the world's great architects whose work in Europe and America shaped the architectural style of our times. WALTER GROPIUS founder of the Bauhaus in Germany and retired dean of Architecture at Harvard University; known both for his trailblazing modern architecture and his important educational efforts. RICHARD J. NEUTRA early pioneer of modern architecture in Europe and the most renowned architect on the West Coast.

Conversations Regarding the Future of Architecture

Architecture Side Two


SIDE I - Speaking first about the future of architecture: 

ERNEST KUMP who heads one of the most active and awarded architectural offices on the Pacific Coast. GORDON BUNSHAFT partner and chief designer with Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, one of the largest architectural firms in the country. And talking about the three great architects of our times: EERO SAARINEN internationally famed architect with a reputation for large-scale planning and careful detail, of which General Motors Technical Center is a most celebrated example. PHILIP JOHNSON important architectural historian and Architectural Chairman of New York Museum of Modern Art who is famed for his glass and steel residences.

Architecture Side One

csxlab.org is Francisco Vasconcelos, self-taught photographer born in Portugal and currently based in Berlin. He has a Bachelor’s Degree in Architecture, and has worked for architecture offices such has Kyiokazu Arai Kyoto & Sou Fujimoto Architects Tokyo.

Amateur photographer since the age of 12 (1990), carrying the Father Zeiss Voigtländer Icarex 35cs camera until 2006 when the arrival of the Digital allowed me to photograph almost in a diary like. Together with the Canon EOS 350D I started to carry it with me to everywhere I went, including ... Clubbing.

With time my photos started to get some appreciation and i got some works for some clubs, mainly Pitch through 2007, and started with a more professional attitude (not just photographing because i was there) but requested to do the cover of the events, an invitation by 1ªLinha from Portugal; an event producer now based in Brazil.

From 2007 until today, I have been photographing music events such as Goa-Festivals, concerts, clubbing, in many countries in which I lived, Portugal, Germany, Netherlands, Greece, Japan.