Recently I've noticed a
few architecture blogs featuring
Inversion, a house installation by Dan Havel and Dean Ruck. A couple things made me think this was weird: (1) This is a project I
featured on this page just over two years ago, and (2) this project was demolished that same year. Granted, the appeal of the project is not lost on me -- the vortex of wood seeming to devour the existing house like a black hole, a hole in which passers-by could venture -- but the sudden popularity on three popular architecture blogs made me wonder why
now? So I decided to trace these posts backwards to find out, and also to get a taste of how this thing called the Blog-o-sphere works, for better or worse.
Of the three pages linked at top, only Tropolism leads back more than one page (.mnp links to Calvin and Calvin's a dead end), like so:
A Technorati search for "
Dan Havel" brings up 77 posts between June 11 and today, and a quick rummage through about half of those shows that a lot of people found
Inversion at
designverb, a fairly popular blog on all sorts of design, though not as popular as its source,
Hemmy.net, one of those blogs that touches on just about everything. Its source,
BoredStop, is a web site new to me, though its posts appear to be limited to images. And when I say limited I mean limited; no explanation (outside the title), no links, no sources, no comments, the end of the road. Apparently, it's up to places like Hemmy.net and designverb to, in this case, make a
meme out of a piece of art long demolished.
Update 07.17: According to an Art League Houston
press release, the new facilities for the organization that replaced the houses that
Inversion ate -- the replacement process affectionately called
Inversion -> Conversion -- opened on the first of March this year. Designed by local architect Irving Phillips, here's a look at the building, from the Art League's
web site:
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