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Space is the place.
Excellent, excellent, excellent. Anne Galloway has started up a new blog devoted to space and culture, named: Space and Culture: “My first and sustaining love is space and culture. My background is in...
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We built this city
on… well… not rock and roll it seems. This from the online prospectus for a course by the London Consortium MRes/Phd course: “Shit and civilization: our ambivalent relationship to ordure in the city,...
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Architecture and use
Peter Lindberg has posted a nicely considered piece on computer architecture and it’s relationship to the general meaning of architecture, including this definition by Fred Brooks whom he entered into...
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Walking City: 21st Century Mirrorworlds remix
^ Comparison of YRM/Tom Carden’s ‘Destinations’ (Detail) with Ron Herron/Archigram’s ‘Walking City’ (reversed out-of-black by me) Congratulations to Tom Carden on getting a piece selected for the...
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People making places
Just wandered tonight along to Demos for the launch of their “People make places” report. A skim on the bus home made it seem the sort of thing I would like the Dan Hills and Anne Galloways of the...
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Stilts and grids
Two pieces from yesterday’s Guardian evocative of the post-North-Atlantic Conveyor context of future design. First, Jonathan Glancey on Alison Brooks’ ‘Salt House’: “The origami-like geometry of the...
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Fortress of Amplitude
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T5: Expectations of agency
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Long life / loose-fit / low ennui
Which is a pun headline that will only work for a very few people. The critical writing that has gathered around my “city as battlesuit” post has gathered something like critical mass – and it’s way...
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The “Oh, Shit…” and the birth of BBC News Online
Back when I was in architecture school, about one million years ago, one of our tutors – I can’t remember but I think it was the brilliant Malcolm Parry – used to delight in taking us on site visits to...
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