The ashes, the pearls, the counterpane and the kiss.

"When I sketch I feel like I erase much more than I draw."
-Lukas

As a post-post-modern blog, twee affect is steeped in the pretension and rhetoric of theory, design, and bullshit. Steeped in the boiling hot water of deconstructionism, reconstructionism, and futurism, the tea leaves of LEGO pour into the blog mug of analogies stretched past their breaking point.

Deconstructionism! More than just what you do when your model sucks (which is often), it's also a prominent idea in post-modern architecture. Hurtling from the pages of literary criticism into cities everywhere, and now LEGO!

RH1985 explores Daniel Libeskind's Jewish Museum Berlin, a difficult task which he manages to pull off. Keep in mind, reader, that this is more an architectural tectonic study than a "model" in the sense we AHOLs use the term. In other words, he didn't build the whole building.

For those less architecturally inclined, some choice pics, from the author's worldly travels.

Of special note is how RH achieves the cracks and slits of the original:

In other architectural news, remarks were made at Brickcon 09 (yes, everyone's still talking about it) that the columns obtrusively in the way of everything weren't there last year. Most doubted, and claims of "I'm an architect; I know these things" (callback to Dreyfuss in Poseidon "I’m an architect, these boats aren’t built to float upside-down!") fell on skeptical ears. But there is photographic proof. Exhibit A! Exhibit B! Exhibit C! Incontrovertible!