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Brass-Lined Arches Connect The Kitchen With The Dining Room Inside This Home Architecture and art studio Svima has shared photos of a kitchen and living room they updated, with...
2nd Apr 2024
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Brass-Lined Arches Connect The Kitchen With The Dining Room Inside This Home

from CONTEMPORIST [alt+shift+b] in architecture

2nd Apr 2024
Architecture and art studio Svima has shared photos of a kitchen and living room they updated, with the kitchen featuring brass design accents. Their clients, a Toronto couple, has opposite tastes: he is an enthusiast of tenebrous minimalism, and she is a lover of bright French...
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OSS lazy-loads governance A special characteristic of open source software (OSS) is that you don't need institutional support...
7th Apr 2019
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OSS lazy-loads governance

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7th Apr 2019
A special characteristic of open source software (OSS) is that you don't need institutional support to get started. It's interesting to compare this to physical infrastructure, like dams or railroads. Before you can begin those projects, you need upfront capital, permits,...
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If movies were about Architecture “Apocalypse Now”: an architect goes grossly over budget. Another architect is sent out to find him...
6th May 2024
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If movies were about Architecture

from Coffee with an Architect [alt+shift+b] in architecture

6th May 2024
“Apocalypse Now”: an architect goes grossly over budget. Another architect is sent out to find him and value-engineer the project, in the jungle, during a war. “It’s a wonderful life”: An architect mishandles his finances. Jumps off a bridge. Is saved by his guardian angel /...
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In Madison, Safer Streets Started With a Simple Test By testing small, temporary changes, Madison, WI, is building safer streets and a culture of...
1st Apr 2026
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In Madison, Safer Streets Started With a Simple Test

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1st Apr 2026
By testing small, temporary changes, Madison, WI, is building safer streets and a culture of continuous improvement.
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Can You Stay? Can You Stay? examines one discrete variable among many complex and converging issues concerning...
17th May 2021
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Can You Stay?

from Blog - Guerrilla Cartography [alt+shift+b] in architecture

17th May 2021
Can You Stay? examines one discrete variable among many complex and converging issues concerning housing precarity, focusing on a part of the world with unique geography and social issues. Project Background This map is cut from the cloth of a capstone project I did in 2018 at...
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Building Fast and Slow Part III: Design of the World Trade Center This is Part III in a series comparing the construction of the Empire State Building and the World...
6th Dec 2022
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Building Fast and Slow Part III: Design of the World Trade Center

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6th Dec 2022
This is Part III in a series comparing the construction of the Empire State Building and the World Trade Center. Part I covers the design and construction of the Empire State Building, and Part II covers the initial development of the World Trade Center
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New and Old #280 Durable homes, the return of the Walkman (?), and very rare video gaming artifacts
3 weeks ago
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New and Old #280

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3 weeks ago
Durable homes, the return of the Walkman (?), and very rare video gaming artifacts
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A Hidden Surprise, But Not Really The picture above shows the nearly-complete Astor Court Apartments, on Broadway between 89th and...
1st Dec 2023
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A Hidden Surprise, But Not Really

from Old Structures Engineering [alt+shift+b] in architecture

1st Dec 2023
The picture above shows the nearly-complete Astor Court Apartments, on Broadway between 89th and 90th Street, in 1915. (As a side note, we’ve got some heavy hitters involved: the architect was Charles Platt, the contractor was Marc Eidlitz & Son, and the photographer was Irving...
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Is AI Really the Next Big Thing in Architecture? There are good reasons to be skeptical about its ultimate utility.
1st Jun 2023
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Is AI Really the Next Big Thing in Architecture?

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1st Jun 2023
There are good reasons to be skeptical about its ultimate utility.
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A Tree House That Feels Like It’s Floating Inside The Forest INTEGRA STUDIO ARQUITETURA has shared photos of a modern Tree House project they completed for the...
2nd Oct 2023
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A Tree House That Feels Like It’s Floating Inside The Forest

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2nd Oct 2023
INTEGRA STUDIO ARQUITETURA has shared photos of a modern Tree House project they completed for the NaCarapina accommodation complex, that’s located in Brazil. The Tree House which has the feeling of ‘floating inside the forest’, is fully integrated with the imposing Araucaria...
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Part 5: Relationship with Travis Air Force Base A new city has been proposed in California, and I’ve never been more captivated by a vision for the...
1st Mar 2024
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Part 5: Relationship with Travis Air Force Base

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1st Mar 2024
A new city has been proposed in California, and I’ve never been more captivated by a vision for the future of my home state in my lifetime. This post is part of a series I’m writing about this bold proposal. Up until recently, the new city’s potential impact on Travis Air Force...
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Duck And Height What Do You Think You're Looking At? #279
4 weeks ago
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Duck And Height

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4 weeks ago
What Do You Think You're Looking At? #279
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From Our Southern Border to a Cottonwood Tree I am an artist and not a trained cartographer. Because my work or message is often about the...
6th Apr 2022
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From Our Southern Border to a Cottonwood Tree

from Blog - Guerrilla Cartography [alt+shift+b] in architecture

6th Apr 2022
I am an artist and not a trained cartographer. Because my work or message is often about the environment, geopolitical issues, water, animal and human rights, I look for how I might highlight particular issues, and then draw a word picture to go with the visual message of the...
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Tubular Belle (Køge Nord station, Køge, Denmark) Stuck on the E20 motorway heading for Copenhagen? Køge Nord station very much hopes you are...
9th Nov 2022
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Tubular Belle (Køge Nord station, Køge, Denmark)

from The Beauty of Transport [alt+shift+b] in architecture

9th Nov 2022
Stuck on the E20 motorway heading for Copenhagen? Køge Nord station very much hopes you are...
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Car Free Brooklyn Bridge – photos and drawings A Car-Free Brooklyn Bridge Is Possible Images and Illustratons AFTER: Aerial view looking east...
1st Jun 2022
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Car Free Brooklyn Bridge – photos and drawings

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1st Jun 2022
A Car-Free Brooklyn Bridge Is Possible Images and Illustratons AFTER: Aerial view looking east towards a car-free Brooklyn Bridge. Centre Street and Park Row next to the Brooklyn Bridge are reimagined as an extension of City Hall Park. © 2020 … Continue reading → The post Car...
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Book Briefs #47: Three Altrim Titles Here is the next installment of "Book Briefs," the series of occasional posts featuring short...
7th Nov 2022
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Book Briefs #47: Three Altrim Titles

from A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books [alt+shift+b] in architecture

7th Nov 2022
Here is the next installment of "Book Briefs," the series of occasional posts featuring short first-hand descriptions of some of the numerous books that publishers send to me for consideration on this blog. Obviously, these briefs are not full-blown reviews, but they are a way to...
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The Hidden Territory: USGS’s 1950’s to 1970’s Isometric Geological Diagrams The online archive of the United States Department of the Interior Geological Survey is a valuable...
15th Oct 2023
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The Hidden Territory: USGS’s 1950’s to 1970’s Isometric Geological Diagrams

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15th Oct 2023
The online archive of the United States Department of the Interior Geological Survey is a valuable resource filled with detailed three-dimensional territorial maps employing various representational techniques. Thanks to the work of artist, designer, and developer Jill Hubleys...
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Markets in everything at the Duomo You're not allowed inside the Duomo with your shoulders uncovered. We learned this the hard way. I...
11th Aug 2019
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Markets in everything at the Duomo

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11th Aug 2019
You're not allowed inside the Duomo with your shoulders uncovered. We learned this the hard way. I was wearing a spaghetti strap dress (it's 92℉/33℃ and humid here in Milan), so they stopped my little group at the entrance, after we'd already purchased 3 tickets. Luckily, we...
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The road to hell is paved with asphalt Most roads are paved with asphalt. Unfortunately, there are a lot of problems with asphalt. Bricks,...
15th Jan 2024
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The road to hell is paved with asphalt

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15th Jan 2024
Most roads are paved with asphalt. Unfortunately, there are a lot of problems with asphalt. Bricks, cobblestones, and pavers are often much better options, because: 1. Asphalt degrades fast, so once you account for maintenance, it's more expensive it first appears Asphalt...
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Local Economies, Fiscal Imagination and Economic Justice in New York City History shows that a city’s economy is strongest when it’s locally rooted, ownership is shared, and...
3rd Aug 2026
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Local Economies, Fiscal Imagination and Economic Justice in New York City

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3rd Aug 2026
History shows that a city’s economy is strongest when it’s locally rooted, ownership is shared, and growth is generated from the bottom up.
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It Looked Familiar: A Promotion From an indie comic called “Bit Torment” – not really my taste, but that’s just an opinion – a view...
1st Aug 2026
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It Looked Familiar: A Promotion

from Old Structures Engineering [alt+shift+b] in architecture

1st Aug 2026
From an indie comic called “Bit Torment” – not really my taste, but that’s just an opinion – a view of the Regency Spire, which houses the World Parliament: From Carol Highsmith, a view of the south facade of the Empire State Building:
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Unconventional strategies for practicing Spanish Language skills are highly multi-dimensional*, so while learning a language, it's important to come...
26th Dec 2019
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Unconventional strategies for practicing Spanish

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26th Dec 2019
Language skills are highly multi-dimensional*, so while learning a language, it's important to come at it from lots of different directions. Here are some of the tricks I've used to practice Spanish that I haven't heard so many other people use. (They're likely useful for other...
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Inside the Chic Winery Where the Owners Got Married Frank Family Vineyards has unveiled Miller House, a new hospitality space designed to host guests in...
1st Jun 2025
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Inside the Chic Winery Where the Owners Got Married

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1st Jun 2025
Frank Family Vineyards has unveiled Miller House, a new hospitality space designed to host guests in a setting that’s both refined and deeply personal. Located in Calistoga, California, the space was created by Hawkins Interiors in collaboration with Backen & Backen for...
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The Irony of Nigeria’s Resilient Democracy and Growing Legacy of Urban Tyranny Planning policies reflect a deep disdain for the poor, prioritizing elite aesthetics over social...
2nd Jul 2025
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The Irony of Nigeria’s Resilient Democracy and Growing Legacy of Urban Tyranny

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2nd Jul 2025
Planning policies reflect a deep disdain for the poor, prioritizing elite aesthetics over social equity.
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Policy Debt: The Missing Massive Strong Towns says "yes" to big buildings near transit stations. However, it's a debt coming due, not...
3rd Aug 2026
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Policy Debt: The Missing Massive

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3rd Aug 2026
Strong Towns says "yes" to big buildings near transit stations. However, it's a debt coming due, not a victory.
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Contemplating calendars My friends say that my calendaring practice is atypical (and mock me incessantly for it). They're...
10th Jul 2019
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Contemplating calendars

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10th Jul 2019
My friends say that my calendaring practice is atypical (and mock me incessantly for it). They're not wrong, but I'll contend that most people underutilize this ubiquitous tool. A calendar is not just a reminder device for keeping track of external events. Used right, a calendar...
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Agency of the Subsurface [Image: The Heathen Gate at Carnuntum, outside Vienna; photo by Geoff Manaugh.] Last summer, a...
28th Sep 2023
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Agency of the Subsurface

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28th Sep 2023
[Image: The Heathen Gate at Carnuntum, outside Vienna; photo by Geoff Manaugh.] Last summer, a geophysicist at the University of Vienna named Immo Trinks proposed the creation of an EU-funded “International Subsurface Exploration Agency.” Modeled after NASA or the ESA, this new...
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Close To Home From Angelo Rizzuto in 1950, “Broad Street.” It doesn’t instantly look familiar because we’re all...
1st May 2024
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Close To Home

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1st May 2024
From Angelo Rizzuto in 1950, “Broad Street.” It doesn’t instantly look familiar because we’re all used to seeing the north end of Broad Street, where the Stock Exchange and Federal Hall are, or views looking up the street to the north. This is the sound end of Broad, as it runs...
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From Slow House to Blue Dream Blue Dream is a house designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro for Julia "Julie" Reyes Taubman and her...
2nd Oct 2023
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From Slow House to Blue Dream

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2nd Oct 2023
Blue Dream is a house designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro for Julia "Julie" Reyes Taubman and her husband Robert "Bobby" Taubman. The house, located in East Hampton, on the South Fork of Long Island, was completed in 2017, nearly 30 years after the architects were commissioned...
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The Black Exterior Of This Barn-Inspired Home Is Contrasted With A White Interior Architecture and interior design studio Laney LA has shared photos of a modern home they designed in...
21st Sep 2023
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The Black Exterior Of This Barn-Inspired Home Is Contrasted With A White Interior

from Contemporist Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in architecture

21st Sep 2023
Architecture and interior design studio Laney LA has shared photos of a modern home they designed in Culver City, California, that has a dark black exterior.
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pre-recession, post-taste Hello, everyone. I hope this blog can bring some well-needed laughs in really trying times. That’s...
30th Oct 2023
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pre-recession, post-taste

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30th Oct 2023
Hello, everyone. I hope this blog can bring some well-needed laughs in really trying times. That’s why I’ve gone back into the archives of that precipitous year 2007, a year where the McMansion was sleepwalking into being a symbol of the financial calamity to follow. We return to...
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How the Gas Turbine Conquered the Electric Power Industry A prophecy expressed frequently in engineering circles at the present day is that turbines actuated...
17th Nov 2023
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How the Gas Turbine Conquered the Electric Power Industry

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17th Nov 2023
A prophecy expressed frequently in engineering circles at the present day is that turbines actuated by hot gases, other than steam, will eventually come to the front as prime movers. — A Scientific Investigation Into the Possibilities of Gas-Turbines,
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Madeleine de Boullogne and Louise-Magdeleine Hortemels, Abbey of Port-Royal-des-Champs: Paintings... Madeleine de Boullogne, (1646-1710), was a baroque artist born and raised in a family of painters....
6th Feb 2022
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Madeleine de Boullogne and Louise-Magdeleine Hortemels, Abbey of Port-Royal-des-Champs: Paintings and Engravings

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6th Feb 2022
Madeleine de Boullogne, (1646-1710), was a baroque artist born and raised in a family of painters. Extremely pious, she remained unmarried and lived a semi-monastic life entirely dedicated to working and teaching. Among the most important commissions, she produced a set of four...
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Carlos Morago. Across the Ordinary Interior Contemporary Spanish painter Carlos Morago depicts realistic interior scenes that are mostly reduced...
22nd Jan 2023
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Carlos Morago. Across the Ordinary Interior

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22nd Jan 2023
Contemporary Spanish painter Carlos Morago depicts realistic interior scenes that are mostly reduced to the bare minimum: light floors and walls and sporadical furniture. Empty corridors and rooms are framed through opened doors and walls while opening on uneventful exteriors...
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New academic dissertation questions architects’ taste Many architects look down upon residential areas built with the small town as a model, with new...
6th Apr 2024
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New academic dissertation questions architects’ taste

from THE ARCHITECTURAL UPRISING [alt+shift+b] in architecture

6th Apr 2024
Many architects look down upon residential areas built with the small town as a model, with new houses made in a traditional style. But this is exactly what the average person appreciates. “Why do many architects dislike the very thing that residents often enjoy?” asks architect...
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Wood Details Are Found Throughout This Apartment’s Interior Architecture and Design Studio Cuaik CDS has sent us photos of an apartment they have recently...
3rd Sep 2023
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Wood Details Are Found Throughout This Apartment’s Interior

from CONTEMPORIST [alt+shift+b] in architecture

3rd Sep 2023
Architecture and Design Studio Cuaik CDS has sent us photos of an apartment they have recently completed in Madrid, Spain, that includes wood details throughout its interior. In the living room, a wall-mounted TV is disguised as art, while illuminated wooden shelves on either...
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The Migration of the Word Honey This map was a first for me. It was my first collaborative map, it was my first map I worked on...
23rd Jan 2020
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The Migration of the Word Honey

from Blog - Guerrilla Cartography [alt+shift+b] in architecture

23rd Jan 2020
This map was a first for me. It was my first collaborative map, it was my first map I worked on using LinkedIn’s chat as much as Photoshop, and it was my first exposure to Guerrilla Cartography. Karen reached out to me to work on the Atlas in a Day project, but immediately we had...
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I’d rather live in a nostalgic Disneyland than a modernist wasteland Critics often dismiss traditional or historicizing architecture as mere “Disneyland” — a fake,...
16th Jun 2025
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I’d rather live in a nostalgic Disneyland than a modernist wasteland

from THE ARCHITECTURAL UPRISING [alt+shift+b] in architecture

16th Jun 2025
Critics often dismiss traditional or historicizing architecture as mere “Disneyland” — a fake, nostalgic fantasy out of step with modern life. But millions visit Disney’s Main Street every year, drawn to something they rarely find in real cities: beautiful, human-scaled streets...
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The grid part II - the golden age of the power industry Welcome to Part II of our history of the electric power industry. For Part I, see here. By 1930, the...
3rd Jun 2023
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The grid part II - the golden age of the power industry

from Construction Physics [alt+shift+b] in architecture

3rd Jun 2023
Welcome to Part II of our history of the electric power industry. For Part I, see here. By 1930, the US was using 114 trillion kilowatt-hours of electricity a year, generated by more than 4000 power plants. Most electricity was generated by coal (56%) and hydroelectric (34%)...
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A libertarian just won Argentina's presidency... what's going on? If you're wondering how the heck a hardline libertarian just won the Argentinian presidential...
21st Nov 2023
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A libertarian just won Argentina's presidency... what's going on?

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21st Nov 2023
If you're wondering how the heck a hardline libertarian just won the Argentinian presidential election, here's some background. First, a key fact is that the government is printing money at an accelerating rate, resulting in 143% annual inflation as of the most recent count. The...
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Shelter of Man With the publication of Shelter of Man in Guerrila Cartography’s forthcoming Shelter: An Atlas, I...
7th Jul 2021
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Shelter of Man

from Blog - Guerrilla Cartography [alt+shift+b] in architecture

7th Jul 2021
With the publication of Shelter of Man in Guerrila Cartography’s forthcoming Shelter: An Atlas, I can officially call myself a guerrilla cartographer. I’m not just an artist anymore. My relationship with cartography developed while studying architecture in Australia. I might have...
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How Guerrilla Cartography’s Atlases Promote Diverse Perspectives Guerrilla Cartography aims to promote the understanding that there are many views of the world, that...
1st Nov 2023
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How Guerrilla Cartography’s Atlases Promote Diverse Perspectives

from Blog - Guerrilla Cartography [alt+shift+b] in architecture

1st Nov 2023
Guerrilla Cartography aims to promote the understanding that there are many views of the world, that how we understand space and place can vary, and that we should think critically about the maps and the graphics we make and consume. Our organization has designed processes for...
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How Often Do Inventions Have Multiple Inventors? When Alexander Graham Bell filed a patent for the telephone on February 14th, 1876, he beat...
5th Jun 2025
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How Often Do Inventions Have Multiple Inventors?

from Construction Physics [alt+shift+b] in architecture

5th Jun 2025
When Alexander Graham Bell filed a patent for the telephone on February 14th, 1876, he beat competing telephone developer Elisha Gray to the patent office by just a few hours.
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Michelangelo Caetani’s Six Topographic Maps of the Divine Comedy As a follow up to the latest post on Norman Bel Geddes’s stage set design for Dante Alighieri’s...
24th Apr 2022
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Michelangelo Caetani’s Six Topographic Maps of the Divine Comedy

from SOCKS [alt+shift+b] in architecture

24th Apr 2022
As a follow up to the latest post on Norman Bel Geddes’s stage set design for Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy, here we feature the six maps drawn by Michelangelo Caetani in a book titled La materia della Divina Commedia di Dante Alighieri dichiarata in VI tavole, Roma (1855). A...
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Con Permiso: Learning to Navigate Public Space in Mexico City Social graciousness when paths cross is fundamental to this city.
1st Dec 2025
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Con Permiso: Learning to Navigate Public Space in Mexico City

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1st Dec 2025
Social graciousness when paths cross is fundamental to this city.
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Atlas in a Day Challenge: A Global, Real-time Collaboration On Saturday, October 5, 2019, more than 50 guerrilla cartographers gathered, in person and online,...
6th Jun 2020
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Atlas in a Day Challenge: A Global, Real-time Collaboration

from Blog - Guerrilla Cartography [alt+shift+b] in architecture

6th Jun 2020
On Saturday, October 5, 2019, more than 50 guerrilla cartographers gathered, in person and online, to collaborate in producing an atlas in a single day on the theme of migration. While researching and designing an entire atlas on a complex theme in the span of 24 hours is indeed...
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How did solar power get cheap? Part I Solar photovoltaics (PV) have become one of the cheapest sources of electricity. Lazard’s estimate...
12th Apr 2023
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How did solar power get cheap? Part I

from Construction Physics [alt+shift+b] in architecture

12th Apr 2023
Solar photovoltaics (PV) have become one of the cheapest sources of electricity. Lazard’s estimate of unsubsidized levelized cost of energy (LCOE)
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Four Monographs Of the numerous books publishers send me for review — be they requested by me, pitched by them, or...
21st Aug 2023
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Four Monographs

from A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books [alt+shift+b] in architecture

21st Aug 2023
Of the numerous books publishers send me for review — be they requested by me, pitched by them, or arriving at my doorstep unsolicited — the highest percentage of them are monographs. This fact goes against the occasional sirens over the irrelevance and anachronistic nature of...
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Case study #2 - Sunbeam A-frame Let's start 2023 with presenting one of my dearest projects.
22nd Jan 2023
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Case study #2 - Sunbeam A-frame

from The Solarchitecture Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in architecture

22nd Jan 2023
Let's start 2023 with presenting one of my dearest projects.
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Possibly A Bad Idea John Zukowksy, a retired but still active historian, recently sent me a bizarre clipping from the...
1st Jul 2024
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Possibly A Bad Idea

from Old Structures Engineering [alt+shift+b] in architecture

1st Jul 2024
John Zukowksy, a retired but still active historian, recently sent me a bizarre clipping from the Chicago Tribune about a plane semi-faking bombing lower Manhattan in 1916. The short version of the story: DeLloyd Thompson, an early aviator of some note, took off from the airfield...
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Transforming French WW1 Lambert Coordinates to WGS84 Nord de Guerre Here’s a survey plat made in 1919 by a US Army unit in France. In the aftermath of...
17th Jan 2024
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Transforming French WW1 Lambert Coordinates to WGS84

from The Wandering Cartographer [alt+shift+b] in architecture

17th Jan 2024
Nord de Guerre Here’s a survey plat made in 1919 by a US Army unit in France. In the aftermath of WW1, teams of American military surveyors produced these as they went around France mapping the grave sites of fallen soldiers. On this plat we can see a number of bearings and...
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This Open Cabin Was Designed For Children Architecture Firm Imaginary Objects, has shared photos of a small child-friendly cabin they...
7th Apr 2025
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This Open Cabin Was Designed For Children

from Contemporist Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in architecture

7th Apr 2025
Architecture Firm Imaginary Objects, has shared photos of a small child-friendly cabin they completed in Chonburi, Thailand, that's inspired by the spirit of a treehouse.
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The silence is deafening Imagine you're at a dinner party, and you're getting into a heated argument. As you start yelling,...
2nd Jul 2020
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The silence is deafening

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2nd Jul 2020
Imagine you're at a dinner party, and you're getting into a heated argument. As you start yelling, the other people quickly hush their voices and start glaring at you. None of the onlookers have to take further action—it's clear from their facial expressions that you're being a...
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Why State Housing Reform is Failing (and What We Can Do About It) Statewide zoning reform isn't producing the wins everyone expected. An architect reveals why: the...
2nd Dec 2025
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Why State Housing Reform is Failing (and What We Can Do About It)

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2nd Dec 2025
Statewide zoning reform isn't producing the wins everyone expected. An architect reveals why: the permissions may have changed, but the reflexes never adapted.
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Pableaux Johnson: Be Where Your Feet Are A New Orleanian pays a Mardi Gras tribute to the Cajun Dalai Lama.
3rd Mar 2025
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Pableaux Johnson: Be Where Your Feet Are

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3rd Mar 2025
A New Orleanian pays a Mardi Gras tribute to the Cajun Dalai Lama.
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Mapping Francis Younghusband in the Gobi Desert, 1887, Part 4: from the Ya-hu oasis to Hami. [Back to Part 3: from the Hun-kua-ling sandhills to the Ya-hu oasis] From Ya-Hu to Hami, we can see...
1st Jul 2020
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Mapping Francis Younghusband in the Gobi Desert, 1887, Part 4: from the Ya-hu oasis to Hami.

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1st Jul 2020
[Back to Part 3: from the Hun-kua-ling sandhills to the Ya-hu oasis] From Ya-Hu to Hami, we can see that Younghusband now has to turn south, as his own map shows. The journey takes from June 23rd to July 4th, or twelve days. His mapmaker places Ula Khutun almost halfway from...
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Coastal Adaptation Is at a Carbon-Intensive Crossroads A conversation with Pamela Conrad, Architecture 2030 senior fellow and the founder of Climate...
2nd Mar 2026
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Coastal Adaptation Is at a Carbon-Intensive Crossroads

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2nd Mar 2026
A conversation with Pamela Conrad, Architecture 2030 senior fellow and the founder of Climate Positive Design.
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Create homes that are havens for health and vitality Life is too short to spend it in bad buildings.
18th Feb 2023
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Create homes that are havens for health and vitality

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18th Feb 2023
Life is too short to spend it in bad buildings.
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Why Can't the U.S. Build Ships? This post is cross-posted at Noahpinion.
5th Sep 2024
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Why Can't the U.S. Build Ships?

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5th Sep 2024
This post is cross-posted at Noahpinion.
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A City in Retreat: Les Devantures by Sandrine Marc (2018) Sandrine Marc is a photographer and artist based in Paris with a specific interest in self-made...
7th Nov 2022
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A City in Retreat: Les Devantures by Sandrine Marc (2018)

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7th Nov 2022
Sandrine Marc is a photographer and artist based in Paris with a specific interest in self-made editions. She investigates urban and suburban territories through slow, long walks immersing herself in mutating environments. In December 2018, after the first demonstration by the...
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Counter-mapping: Sitio San Roque, Philippines This counter-map was the product of a collaboration between the Junior Philippine Geographical...
28th Jun 2022
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Counter-mapping: Sitio San Roque, Philippines

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28th Jun 2022
This counter-map was the product of a collaboration between the Junior Philippine Geographical Society – University of the Philippines Diliman (JPGS-UPD), the Save San Roque Alliance, Kadamay – San Roque, and most especially the urban poor residents of San Roque. The...
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This Cape Town Home Was Given An Updated Interior And A New Garden Pavilion Interior design firm ARRCC has shared photos of a project they recently completed in Cape Town,...
2nd Nov 2023
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This Cape Town Home Was Given An Updated Interior And A New Garden Pavilion

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2nd Nov 2023
Interior design firm ARRCC has shared photos of a project they recently completed in Cape Town, South Africa, that included the updating of the interior and the addition of a new garden pavilion.
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namesake mcmansion Howdy folks! Today’s McMansion is very special because a) we’re returning to Maryland after a long...
31st Jul 2024
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namesake mcmansion

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31st Jul 2024
Howdy folks! Today’s McMansion is very special because a) we’re returning to Maryland after a long time and b) because the street this McMansion is on is the same as my name. (It was not named after me.) Hence, it is my personal McMansion, which I guess is somewhat like when...
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Olmsted Trees Olmsted Trees Photographs by Stanley Greenberg, with contributions by Tom Avermaete, Kevin Baker,...
10th Oct 2022
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Olmsted Trees

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10th Oct 2022
Olmsted Trees Photographs by Stanley Greenberg, with contributions by Tom Avermaete, Kevin Baker, Mindy Thompson Fullilove Hirmer Publishers, August 2022 Hardcover | 9 x 11 inches | 160 pages | 100 illustrations | German/English | ISBN: | $X.00 PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION: Central...
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this house may or may not be real on grayness in real estate Allegedly, somewhere in Wake Forest, North Carolina, a 4 bed, 5.5...
16th Dec 2022
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this house may or may not be real

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16th Dec 2022
on grayness in real estate Allegedly, somewhere in Wake Forest, North Carolina, a 4 bed, 5.5 bathroom house totaling more than 6,600 square feet is for sale at a price of 2.37 million dollars. The house, allegedly, was built in 2021. Allegedly, it looks like this: A McMansion...
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The 15 Minute City In February 2023, over two thousand people took to the streets in Oxford, England to protest their...
3rd Dec 2024
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The 15 Minute City

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3rd Dec 2024
In February 2023, over two thousand people took to the streets in Oxford, England to protest their local government. They were wearing yellow vests and chanting slogans about the municipality’s new traffic policies. But most notably, many of them were vocally angry about a new...
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Constructing Knowledge through Geometry: Ramon Llull’s Figures in Ars Magna, 1305 Catalan polymath, Ramon Llull was the first person to conceive a device able to externalise the...
3rd Nov 2021
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Constructing Knowledge through Geometry: Ramon Llull’s Figures in Ars Magna, 1305

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3rd Nov 2021
Catalan polymath, Ramon Llull was the first person to conceive a device able to externalise the human mind. In his seminal opus, the Ars Magna, Llull conceived a series of figures that could replicate the mental ability to connect information in order to acquire knowledge. Thanks...
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Matmata: Underground Dwellings for an Extreme Climate The ancient Berber village of Matmata in South Tunisia, located between the Eastern coast and the...
26th Mar 2023
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Matmata: Underground Dwellings for an Extreme Climate

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26th Mar 2023
The ancient Berber village of Matmata in South Tunisia, located between the Eastern coast and the desert, is characterised by settlements of dwellings dug into the clay-gypsum layers of the ground. The dating of the first inhabitations is uncertain. In these dwellings, vaulted...
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This Tall And Skinny House Also Has A Rooftop Pool Story Architecture has shared photos of a new tall and skinny home they recently completed in Ho Chi...
5th Mar 2024
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This Tall And Skinny House Also Has A Rooftop Pool

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5th Mar 2024
Story Architecture has shared photos of a new tall and skinny home they recently completed in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, for a family of four with two sons.
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How much safer has construction gotten? When talking about (the lack of) construction productivity growth, or the fact that we used to build...
9th Mar 2023
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How much safer has construction gotten?

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9th Mar 2023
When talking about (the lack of) construction productivity growth, or the fact that we used to build things much faster than we do today, commentators frequently mention the safety of the construction workers. On this view, construction speed/efficiency and worker risk are a...
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The Classic Planning Herald International: A Window into the Global New Traditional Architecture... The Classic Planning Herald International is a new quarterly magazine from the Classic Planning...
17th Dec 2024
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The Classic Planning Herald International: A Window into the Global New Traditional Architecture Movement

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17th Dec 2024
The Classic Planning Herald International is a new quarterly magazine from the Classic Planning Institute. The project offers insights into what is happening in the New Traditional Architecture community and aims to challenge the modernist dogma. In this article, Michelle Sofge...
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Soane, Mackintosh, Jencks: Three Architects, Three Exceptional Houses A residential designer visits a few buildings that are important to his own perspective.
13th Oct 2025
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Soane, Mackintosh, Jencks: Three Architects, Three Exceptional Houses

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13th Oct 2025
A residential designer visits a few buildings that are important to his own perspective.
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An Unfortunate Comparison I’m not a big fan of mid-twentieth-century modernism, and I still agree that Bertrand Goldberg’s...
1st Jun 2024
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An Unfortunate Comparison

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1st Jun 2024
I’m not a big fan of mid-twentieth-century modernism, and I still agree that Bertrand Goldberg’s Marina City is remarkable architecture. From the north: From the south: There’s just one little detail that got stuck in my head that partially ruins looking at it for me. Every...
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Reading List 04/5/2025 China’s sulfur emissions, Japan’s new semiconductor effort, declining sunbelt housing construction,...
5th Apr 2025
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Reading List 04/5/2025

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5th Apr 2025
China’s sulfur emissions, Japan’s new semiconductor effort, declining sunbelt housing construction, water competition in Texas, and more.
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2023 in Architecture Books, So Far Life, they say, throws you curve balls, and that's just what happened last month, when a family...
21st Apr 2023
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2023 in Architecture Books, So Far

from A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books [alt+shift+b] in architecture

21st Apr 2023
Life, they say, throws you curve balls, and that's just what happened last month, when a family emergency had me put this blog on hiatus. This post, appearing on a Friday instead of its regular Monday, does not mean regular weekly posts will resume, as I'll be dealing with said...
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Light, Ventilation, and Design Features in School Design An institutional space requires maximum optimization of light and ventilation. Schools require open,...
1st Jul 2023
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Light, Ventilation, and Design Features in School Design

from Benny Kuriakose [alt+shift+b] in architecture

1st Jul 2023
An institutional space requires maximum optimization of light and ventilation. Schools require open, bright places and the best design...
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The Landscape Architecture of Auroras on Demand I’ve mentioned the following story to so many people, I thought I might as well put up a quick post...
18th Mar 2026
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The Landscape Architecture of Auroras on Demand

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18th Mar 2026
I’ve mentioned the following story to so many people, I thought I might as well put up a quick post about it. There are strong Kristian Birkeland vibes with this—and, of course, anything involving an entire mountain transformed into a kind of passive-cosmic megamachine is bound...
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Seven European projects selected as 2026 EU Mies van der Rohe Award finalists ... The European Commission and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe have unveiled the seven finalists for...
6th Feb 2026
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Seven European projects selected as 2026 EU Mies van der Rohe Award finalists

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6th Feb 2026
The European Commission and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe have unveiled the seven finalists for the 2026 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture — Mies van der Rohe Award. A total of five projects were selected as finalists in the Architecture category, with another...
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Israel's water miracle The saga of Israeli water management is one of the most inspiring stories of the last 75 years....
1st Jul 2023
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Israel's water miracle

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1st Jul 2023
The saga of Israeli water management is one of the most inspiring stories of the last 75 years. Israel went from having a serious water problem to being a net water exporter to neighboring countries. Meanwhile, the population grew from ~1 million to well over 9 million. With...
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Seasonal relief Just a map for fun, made without writing any code, which is a nice change of pace. I finally spent a...
16th Feb 2018
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Seasonal relief

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16th Feb 2018
Just a map for fun, made without writing any code, which is a nice change of pace. I finally spent a bit of time catching up with the great Daniel Huffman’s excellent tutorial on creating shaded relief maps with Blender. Do try it out if you haven’t; he’s written it up thoroughly...
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Life Advice: “You’ll Do Fine If You Believe, ‘I Do My Best.’” Author and educator Steven Heller’s commencement address to the School of Visual Arts’ Class of...
3rd Jun 2025
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Life Advice: “You’ll Do Fine If You Believe, ‘I Do My Best.’”

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3rd Jun 2025
Author and educator Steven Heller’s commencement address to the School of Visual Arts’ Class of 2025.
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Ozymandias And Elitism Is pleasure evidence of unworthiness?
1st Nov 2025
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Ozymandias And Elitism

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1st Nov 2025
Is pleasure evidence of unworthiness?
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Institute for Controlled Speleogenesis Recently, I’ve been looking back at a collaborative project with John Becker of WROT Studio. The...
8th Jul 2024
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Institute for Controlled Speleogenesis

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8th Jul 2024
Recently, I’ve been looking back at a collaborative project with John Becker of WROT Studio. The “Institute for Controlled Speleogenesis” (2014) was a fictional design project we originally set in the vast limestone province of Australia’s Nullarbor Plain. [Image: A rock-acid...
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Inflation propagates unevenly Inflation hits some parts of the economy harder and faster than others. It's obvious once you say...
2nd Jan 2022
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Inflation propagates unevenly

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2nd Jan 2022
Inflation hits some parts of the economy harder and faster than others. It's obvious once you say it, and yet the way pundits and academics talk about inflation glosses over this reality. As a result, most people who haven't had direct experience with high inflation have a flawed...
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Separated at Birth AS CHAIR OF CNU NYC, I was part of the Empire Station Coalition’s long opposition to the efforts of...
1st Jun 2026
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Separated at Birth

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1st Jun 2026
AS CHAIR OF CNU NYC, I was part of the Empire Station Coalition’s long opposition to the efforts of Governor Cuomo and then Governor Hochul to turn the area around Penn Station into a towering Vornadoville (Vornado calls it “The … Continue reading → The post Separated at Birth...
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Regenerative Architecture Shifting our time horizon.
27th Feb 2025
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Regenerative Architecture

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27th Feb 2025
Shifting our time horizon.
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Clean Lines and Integrated Transport (Florastrasse transport hub, Adliswil, Switzerland) The thing about Switzerland’s affordable, hyper-reliable, hyper-integrated and hyper-ubiquitous...
9th Aug 2023
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Clean Lines and Integrated Transport (Florastrasse transport hub, Adliswil, Switzerland)

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9th Aug 2023
The thing about Switzerland’s affordable, hyper-reliable, hyper-integrated and hyper-ubiquitous public transport system is that the regard in which its phenomenal operational expertise is held can overshadow the architectural successes it also demonstrates. Even when transport...
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texas gothic revival Sometimes I just want to get on my hobbyhorse, which for about a year now has been the middle ages...
1st Jun 2024
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texas gothic revival

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1st Jun 2024
Sometimes I just want to get on my hobbyhorse, which for about a year now has been the middle ages but surely will soon be something else. (Please hyperfixation gods, make it financial literacy.) Anyway, I meandered around the nation (online) in search of another opportunity to...
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This Home Was Designed To Surround A Swimming Pool With A Slide Architect Alexis Dornier has shared a new home in Pererenan, Bali, that combines modern...
19th Apr 2025
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This Home Was Designed To Surround A Swimming Pool With A Slide

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19th Apr 2025
Architect Alexis Dornier has shared a new home in Pererenan, Bali, that combines modern architectural principles with a spirit of creativity and exploration. The house is defined by its bold central void, an architectural centerpiece that brings natural light, air, and a sense of...
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We Built a Dangerous System. Then We Made a PSA About It. How public safety messaging shifts responsibility away from the systems that cause harm.
4th May 2026
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We Built a Dangerous System. Then We Made a PSA About It.

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4th May 2026
How public safety messaging shifts responsibility away from the systems that cause harm.
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Vacuum tube nostalgia Music enthusiasts will tell you there's nothing quite like "tube sound", the warm, rich sound...
21st Oct 2019
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Vacuum tube nostalgia

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21st Oct 2019
Music enthusiasts will tell you there's nothing quite like "tube sound", the warm, rich sound quality that old vacuum tube amplifiers bring to the music played through them. And they'll pay top dollar for it! Once considered obsolete, vintage vacuum tube amps now sell at a...
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A Sheet Metal Skin Of Oiled Steel Was Selected For The Siding Of This Mountain Home James Merrell Architects together with interior design firm Ellen Hanson Designs, completed a modern...
2nd Oct 2024
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A Sheet Metal Skin Of Oiled Steel Was Selected For The Siding Of This Mountain Home

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2nd Oct 2024
James Merrell Architects together with interior design firm Ellen Hanson Designs, completed a modern mountain home in Sun Valley, Idaho, that features an exterior of oiled steel, concrete, and glass. The sheet metal skin of oiled steel was selected for the siding to bring in the...
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Why Would You Want to Teach Architecture? Opening minds and defining a way of working is the ultimate payoff.
4th Jan 2024
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Why Would You Want to Teach Architecture?

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4th Jan 2024
Opening minds and defining a way of working is the ultimate payoff.
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Camino de Santiago sketch maps Back in October in Montréal I finished my term on the NACIS board of directors at the annual...
8th Jan 2018
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Camino de Santiago sketch maps

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8th Jan 2018
Back in October in Montréal I finished my term on the NACIS board of directors at the annual conference. (Side note: see video of the conference talks!) Tanya Buckingham (recent NACIS executive director, current candidate for local office) has always kindly handed out thank-you...
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The Great American Pyramid Memphis, Tennessee is home to many historic landmarks. Like Graceland, and Beale Street. But one of...
1st Apr 2025
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The Great American Pyramid

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1st Apr 2025
Memphis, Tennessee is home to many historic landmarks. Like Graceland, and Beale Street. But one of their biggest tourist magnets is their Bass Pro Shops. Usually, Bass Pro is the place to buy hunting and fishing gear. But the one in Memphis, it’s less of a store, and more of a...
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Bangalore's Disappearing Lakes In an area of pronounced water scarcity high on the Deccan plateau, at an altitude removed from...
2nd Mar 2021
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Bangalore's Disappearing Lakes

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2nd Mar 2021
In an area of pronounced water scarcity high on the Deccan plateau, at an altitude removed from river-water and of water extraction from the ground, despite being historically nourished by monsoons, Bangalore's current population faces deep inequities of access to water which are...
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Left to Write (1 of 3): Adaptive Keyboards & Writing Technologies for One-Handed Users Last year, an accident left my right arm and shoulder numb and paralyzed. After extensive testing,...
1st May 2025
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Left to Write (1 of 3): Adaptive Keyboards & Writing Technologies for One-Handed Users

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1st May 2025
Last year, an accident left my right arm and shoulder numb and paralyzed. After extensive testing, doctors determined that I had severely injured my right brachial plexus — a crucial nexus of nerve pathways carrying signals back and forth between my spinal column and right upper...
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Abdul Rahman Sahib Museum: The Freedom Fighter’s Home The Muziris Heritage Project narrates the stories from different timelines. From the first mosque in...
11th May 2023
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Abdul Rahman Sahib Museum: The Freedom Fighter’s Home

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11th May 2023
The Muziris Heritage Project narrates the stories from different timelines. From the first mosque in India to the Study Centre for the...
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My 7 (hidden) roles as an architect A contemplative piece about all the roles in my practice that I do not talk about but I assume them,...
14th Jul 2025
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My 7 (hidden) roles as an architect

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14th Jul 2025
A contemplative piece about all the roles in my practice that I do not talk about but I assume them, all the time.
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Open Borders A border is an idea so powerful that we never even have to see it to believe it. Or believe in it....
1st Jul 2025
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Open Borders

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1st Jul 2025
A border is an idea so powerful that we never even have to see it to believe it. Or believe in it. Global borders can be sites of peace and conflict, violence and celebration, opportunity and confinement. And borders as they exist today – which is to say, increasingly militarized...
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Tutorial: Telegram → Logseq quick notes I've long wanted a notes app with an optional chat style interface for append-only notes. The idea...
30th Dec 2021
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Tutorial: Telegram → Logseq quick notes

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30th Dec 2021
I've long wanted a notes app with an optional chat style interface for append-only notes. The idea is that I'll use the simpler append-only interface while on the go, and then use full-featured interface to review, edit, and organize those notes when I'm back at my computer. I...
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Migration Away From Flooded Land in Seattle How did you decide on your map subject for the Migration atlas?  Deciding what to map was the...
30th Apr 2020
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Migration Away From Flooded Land in Seattle

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30th Apr 2020
How did you decide on your map subject for the Migration atlas?  Deciding what to map was the hardest part of the Atlas in a Day experience. The first night, we developed a number of interesting concepts but nothing felt quite right. Were data available? What interesting story...
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When a Beloved Client Dies The connection between designer and user can—wonderfully and painfully—transcend the business of...
4th Aug 2025
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When a Beloved Client Dies

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4th Aug 2025
The connection between designer and user can—wonderfully and painfully—transcend the business of architecture.
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How AI is changing cartography: A chatbot’s perspective Artificial intelligence is dramatically changing the practice of cartography, not just as a...
26th Mar 2024
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How AI is changing cartography: A chatbot’s perspective

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26th Mar 2024
Artificial intelligence is dramatically changing the practice of cartography, not just as a mechanism for extracting and manipulating data, but as a tool for creating, curating, and interacting with geospatial images. A simple web search for “AI in cartography” points to a vast...
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Mineral Hurricane I recently had the pleasure of attending a press preview of the new documentary Architecton,...
4th Aug 2025
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Mineral Hurricane

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4th Aug 2025
I recently had the pleasure of attending a press preview of the new documentary Architecton, directed by Victor Kossakovsky and released last week by A24. Surreally, the screening I attended was held inside a Cedars-Sinai medical-imaging center in west Los Angeles. Seeing this...
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On bounties Michael Kaminsky recently emailed me an interesting post he wrote about bounties in open source, and...
12th Oct 2020
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On bounties

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12th Oct 2020
Michael Kaminsky recently emailed me an interesting post he wrote about bounties in open source, and I took the opportunity to write up some thoughts that had been swirling in my head for a while. You can find the (lightly edited) response I sent to him below. ~ Bounties are...
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A Building to Tell the Time: The Toghrol Tower in Rey, Iran (1063) The Toghrol Tower is a 20 meters high tower located in the city of Rey in Iran made of bricks and...
11th Dec 2022
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A Building to Tell the Time: The Toghrol Tower in Rey, Iran (1063)

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11th Dec 2022
The Toghrol Tower is a 20 meters high tower located in the city of Rey in Iran made of bricks and Sarooj, a water-resistant mortar. It was erected in 1063, and according to some sources, it was conceived as the tomb of Tuğrul Beg, the founder of the Seljuk dynasty. Other scholars...
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Northern Virginia Is a Real Place, Revisited Feeling at home in a big, anonymous place
2nd Mar 2026
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Northern Virginia Is a Real Place, Revisited

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2nd Mar 2026
Feeling at home in a big, anonymous place
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The Modern House guide to Christmas gifts that give back The festive sprint comes with ample occasions for gift giving, from Secret Santa to stocking...
5th Dec 2024
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The Modern House guide to Christmas gifts that give back

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5th Dec 2024
The festive sprint comes with ample occasions for gift giving, from Secret Santa to stocking fillers. Where to start? This year, we’ve decided to focus on gifting with an altruistic inclination and present an edit of design-led festive finds that support the work of charities […]
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Constructing Bourgoin’s Figure 171 – Part 1 Just veering off into geometry here…. In November I was watching Eric Broug, an Islamic geometric...
26th Jan 2022
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Constructing Bourgoin’s Figure 171 – Part 1

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26th Jan 2022
Just veering off into geometry here…. In November I was watching Eric Broug, an Islamic geometric design guru, give a talk online at an Islamic art conference, and I noticed that behind him they were projecting an interesting pattern on the scrim. I froze the video and grabbed a...
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Silver Machine (Stoke-on-Trent Bus Station, Hanley, Staffordshire, UK) With a horrid shock of recognition, I suddenly realised what Stoke-on-Trent Bus Station reminded me...
9th Feb 2022
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Silver Machine (Stoke-on-Trent Bus Station, Hanley, Staffordshire, UK)

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9th Feb 2022
With a horrid shock of recognition, I suddenly realised what Stoke-on-Trent Bus Station reminded me of. As a one-time public transport officer in a local authority I, like most others, often experienced the depressing feeling of being unable to source enough funding to keep an...
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Free Spirits There are strange happenings in dusty, old, forgotten small towns on the border of nowhere....
1st Apr 2021
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Free Spirits

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1st Apr 2021
There are strange happenings in dusty, old, forgotten small towns on the border of nowhere. Particularly when the end of October draws near. Sightings. Strange lights. Spirits. There are always spirits. I live in such a place. Me and my dog Jazz. “Jazz,” I said, “it’s that time...
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A Beetle By Any Other Name In a limestone cave deep in Central Slovenia, an unremarkable insect lives in complete darkness....
4th Mar 2025
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A Beetle By Any Other Name

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4th Mar 2025
In a limestone cave deep in Central Slovenia, an unremarkable insect lives in complete darkness. This tiny beetle, barely visible to the naked eye, has no eyes and a brownish-yellow coloration—adaptations to a life spent entirely underground. The beetle has survived for...
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Summer in the City From the middle of March, when a family emergency put this blog on hiatus, until the middle of July,...
31st Jul 2023
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Summer in the City

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31st Jul 2023
From the middle of March, when a family emergency put this blog on hiatus, until the middle of July, when a funeral mass was held for my dad, my life was split almost evenly between my home in New York City and my parent's home in Central Florida. The emergency in March was an...
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Marcus Aurelius for Architects and Designers Written more than 1,000 years ago, the Roman emperor’s words of wisdom offer guidance and comfort to...
1st May 2025
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Marcus Aurelius for Architects and Designers

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1st May 2025
Written more than 1,000 years ago, the Roman emperor’s words of wisdom offer guidance and comfort to the profession in the 21st century.
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IVF egg retrieval notes I’ve now done two egg retrieval cycles. Given that I had a zillion questions before I started, I...
2nd Apr 2024
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IVF egg retrieval notes

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2nd Apr 2024
I’ve now done two egg retrieval cycles. Given that I had a zillion questions before I started, I thought I’d share my notes for others who might have similar questions. Things I would’ve loved to know beforehand Overall the process was way easier and less intense than I...
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Hi everyone: I’ve written a long deep-dive on the present state of the McMansion, from... The McMansion as Harbinger of the American Apocalypse Hi everyone: I’ve written a long deep-dive on...
10th May 2023
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Hi everyone: I’ve written a long deep-dive on the present state of the McMansion, from farmhouse…

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10th May 2023
The McMansion as Harbinger of the American Apocalypse Hi everyone: I’ve written a long deep-dive on the present state of the McMansion, from farmhouse chic to imminent environmental collapse. If you’ve been seeing an inordinate number of big ugly houses pop up in your...
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This Home's Addition Is Designed To Feel Like You've Stepped Into The Garden BENT Architecture has shared photos of a project they designed in Victoria, Australia, that included...
15th Oct 2023
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This Home's Addition Is Designed To Feel Like You've Stepped Into The Garden

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15th Oct 2023
BENT Architecture has shared photos of a project they designed in Victoria, Australia, that included the design of a rear extension that answers the statement, "Imagine if your home could feel like living in a garden pavilion".
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Star Forts, Mines, and Other Maastricht Subterranea I was in Maastricht, Netherlands, for a couple nights last week, mostly as a way to break-up my trip...
18th Sep 2025
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Star Forts, Mines, and Other Maastricht Subterranea

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18th Sep 2025
I was in Maastricht, Netherlands, for a couple nights last week, mostly as a way to break-up my trip across the Atlantic and thus help get over jet-lag before attending an archaeology conference (where I currently type this). I went specifically to Maastricht, however, because...
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Uncontrolled Remains I find landfill chemistry weirdly fascinating, particularly the idea that untold millions of tons of...
7th Jul 2025
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Uncontrolled Remains

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7th Jul 2025
I find landfill chemistry weirdly fascinating, particularly the idea that untold millions of tons of garbage being stored in giant, artificial landforms—or simply buried underground like false geological deposits—might be inadvertently catalyzing chemical processes we neither...
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In The Background The photo from the Bain News Service is titled “Post Office, New York” and the Library of Congress...
1st Apr 2024
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In The Background

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1st Apr 2024
The photo from the Bain News Service is titled “Post Office, New York” and the Library of Congress dates it as “between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915.” I think we can do better: that’s the Municpal Building in the background under construction. The building took longer than usual to...
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Copper Kitchen Cabinets Add To The Refined Rustic Feeling Inside This Renovated Historic Loft MU Architecture has shared photos of a renovated historic loft in Montreal's Old Port that...
25th Mar 2025
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Copper Kitchen Cabinets Add To The Refined Rustic Feeling Inside This Renovated Historic Loft

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25th Mar 2025
MU Architecture has shared photos of a renovated historic loft in Montreal's Old Port that seamlessly blends heritage with modern design.
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ode to a faux grecian urn Howdy everyone, Today’s house, built in 2001, comes to you from, you guessed it, the Chicago...
2nd Apr 2024
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ode to a faux grecian urn

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2nd Apr 2024
Howdy everyone, Today’s house, built in 2001, comes to you from, you guessed it, the Chicago suburbs. The house is a testimony to traditional craftsmanship and traditional values (having lots of money.) The cost of painting this house greige is approximately the GDP of Slovenia...
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Kelp Farming May Help Clean New York’s Polluted Waterways and Fight Climate Change The seaweed found in Newtown Creek, Gowanus Bay, and the East River could suck up carbon and...
27th Mar 2023
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Kelp Farming May Help Clean New York’s Polluted Waterways and Fight Climate Change

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27th Mar 2023
The seaweed found in Newtown Creek, Gowanus Bay, and the East River could suck up carbon and pollutants, bolstering marine ecosystems.
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Peter Calthorpe Has a Plan for More Housing in California Through a state-mandated use of form-based codes and a focus on “grand boulevards” of underutilized...
3rd Apr 2023
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Peter Calthorpe Has a Plan for More Housing in California

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3rd Apr 2023
Through a state-mandated use of form-based codes and a focus on “grand boulevards” of underutilized commercial strips, the number of potential units expands by orders of magnitude.
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Georgist land taxes balance community benefit & the efficiency of markets One thing I like about Georgist land taxes is they reflect a deep-seated intuition many people have...
13th Jul 2024
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Georgist land taxes balance community benefit & the efficiency of markets

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13th Jul 2024
One thing I like about Georgist land taxes is they reflect a deep-seated intuition many people have that land should be owned by the community, while still employing markets to ensure efficient use of this limited resource. People feel that land is special and should serve the...
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The Black Exterior Of This Home Leads To A Pink Kitchen Inside Paul Archer Design has shared photos of a home they completed in Wivenhoe, England, for an artist...
11th Jun 2024
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The Black Exterior Of This Home Leads To A Pink Kitchen Inside

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11th Jun 2024
Paul Archer Design has shared photos of a home they completed in Wivenhoe, England, for an artist who wanted a light-filled interior with room to work and to entertain.
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Pools and Populations in the SF Bay Area For many people, swimming in a pool on a hot July day with kids splashing and lifeguards hollering...
18th Nov 2024
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Pools and Populations in the SF Bay Area

from Blog - Guerrilla Cartography [alt+shift+b] in architecture

18th Nov 2024
For many people, swimming in a pool on a hot July day with kids splashing and lifeguards hollering is the quintessential summer experience. Not only do pools provide a place for people to recreate and cool off in the summer heat, but access to pools is essential to making basic...
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Sustainability in School Design Sustainability is a practice that seeks to minimize the negative impact of buildings on the ...
29th Sep 2023
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Sustainability in School Design

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29th Sep 2023
Sustainability is a practice that seeks to minimize the negative impact of buildings on the environment by efficient and moderate use of...
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Book review: Against the Grain, by James C. Scott The book that etched the deepest grooves in my mind last year was Against the Grain by James C....
1st Jan 2020
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Book review: Against the Grain, by James C. Scott

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1st Jan 2020
The book that etched the deepest grooves in my mind last year was Against the Grain by James C. Scott. It explores how the unique characteristics of grain-based agriculture shaped the early history of states. While I did learn many interesting historical facts and trends from...
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The Permanence of Form from Vernacular to Rationalism: Giuseppe Pagano’s “Architettura Rurale... Giuseppe Pagano was a central figure in Italian architecture of the first part of the 20th century....
16th Jun 2024
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The Permanence of Form from Vernacular to Rationalism: Giuseppe Pagano’s “Architettura Rurale Italiana” at Milan Triennale (1936)

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16th Jun 2024
Giuseppe Pagano was a central figure in Italian architecture of the first part of the 20th century. Along with his practice as a rationalist architect and his political engagement, which led him to leave the Fascist Party, join the Resistance, and later be deported to Mauthausen,...
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A Cluster Of Shingle-Clad Buildings Create An Island Cottage Experience For These Owners Akb Architects has shared photos of a cottage they designed that comprises a cluster of buildings,...
1st Aug 2024
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A Cluster Of Shingle-Clad Buildings Create An Island Cottage Experience For These Owners

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1st Aug 2024
Akb Architects has shared photos of a cottage they designed that comprises a cluster of buildings, each scaled proportionately to the island’s one-acre size. Located three hours north of Toronto, Canada, the cottage includes four pitch-roofed structures, harmoniously clad in...
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Where It Comes From I’ve written about the Whitehall Building and its extension enough that there’s not much to say...
1st Mar 2026
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Where It Comes From

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1st Mar 2026
I’ve written about the Whitehall Building and its extension enough that there’s not much to say about it for this new (to me) picture: The buildings were a little isolated from the main downtown skyscraper cluster by being so far southwest, but it’s a five-minute walk to...
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The Large Arch Window In Front Of This Cafe Offers A Glimpse Of The Creative Interior Anatomy Architecture + Atelier has shared photos of a cafe they designed in Ayutthaya, Thailand,...
14th Jun 2023
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The Large Arch Window In Front Of This Cafe Offers A Glimpse Of The Creative Interior

from Contemporist Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in architecture

14th Jun 2023
Anatomy Architecture + Atelier has shared photos of a cafe they designed in Ayutthaya, Thailand, that incorporates a collection of windows to create a welcoming arch shape on its facade.
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Keep The Scale In Mind Here’s a photo from yesterday of Shaquana getting a good look at a brownstone finial that’s been...
1st Feb 2024
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Keep The Scale In Mind

from Old Structures Engineering [alt+shift+b] in architecture

1st Feb 2024
Here’s a photo from yesterday of Shaquana getting a good look at a brownstone finial that’s been removed during restoration work. This is a minor decorative element for the church it was removed from. It’s visually important, of course, and we’re not removing it to throw it away,...
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Podcasts & conferences I've spoken at I haven't done a great job of tracking these, so this list is non-comprehensive: Urbanism and the...
26th Aug 2021
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Podcasts & conferences I've spoken at

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26th Aug 2021
I haven't done a great job of tracking these, so this list is non-comprehensive: Urbanism and the Future of Cities (Jan 2023) – Narratives podcast Inflation, Argentina, and Crypto (Oct 2022) – EconTalk podcast Devon Zuegel on Startup Cities (June 2022) Devon Zuegel, creator...
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TRANSitar Lima THE RIGHT TO THE CITY: Who has the right to move freely through the city and who doesn’t? Map of...
15th May 2023
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TRANSitar Lima

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15th May 2023
THE RIGHT TO THE CITY: Who has the right to move freely through the city and who doesn’t? Map of Lima, Peru About the project TRANSitar Lima is a project that seeks to create a visual record of transphobic violence, based on collective mapping sessions. Trans, transvestites, and...
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Three Lessons from Three Monographs Writing a blog devoted to architecture books means featuring monographs — lots of monographs. Not...
6th Feb 2023
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Three Lessons from Three Monographs

from A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books [alt+shift+b] in architecture

6th Feb 2023
Writing a blog devoted to architecture books means featuring monographs — lots of monographs. Not exclusively, of course; but before this blog transitioned to its current weekly format, one of the thematic days of the week was appropriately devoted to monographs: Monograph...
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Press release: Is this the ugliest building in America? Architects and Urbanists Unveil 2025’s ‘Ugliest Buildings in America’ Ignominious winners to be...
11th Apr 2025
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Press release: Is this the ugliest building in America?

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11th Apr 2025
Architects and Urbanists Unveil 2025’s ‘Ugliest Buildings in America’ Ignominious winners to be ‘dishonored’ at the International ‘Aesthetic Atrocity’ Awards this May (New York, NY) An international panel of architects and urbanists has determined that Simmons Hall at MIT is...
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If I Were A NIMBY What the devil on my shoulder whispers to me
1st Apr 2026
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If I Were A NIMBY

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1st Apr 2026
What the devil on my shoulder whispers to me
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Field notes: Panamá, SEZs, & biotech I just spent a week in Panamá City, and figured I'd share my observations in case they're useful to...
5th Feb 2022
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Field notes: Panamá, SEZs, & biotech

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5th Feb 2022
I just spent a week in Panamá City, and figured I'd share my observations in case they're useful to anyone else interested in similar questions. The purpose of the trip was to research locations for a gene therapy/stem cell clinic that my friend is planning to start. I also...
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Antler Flagship Store on Regent Street by Checkland Kindleysides Antler is a British travel brand with over 110 years of design and travel expertise behind it. In...
1st Jun 2026
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Antler Flagship Store on Regent Street by Checkland Kindleysides

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1st Jun 2026
Antler is a British travel brand with over 110 years of design and travel expertise behind it. In collaboration with...
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What are startup cities for? While the startup cities industry is still small, it is already quite heterogeneous. Each project...
2nd Jul 2021
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What are startup cities for?

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2nd Jul 2021
While the startup cities industry is still small, it is already quite heterogeneous. Each project has its own distinct set of goals, motivations, and scope. However, this diversity isn’t fully captured by the vocabulary we use right now. To help myself create a mental map of the...
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Job Opportunities at Benny Kuriakose and Associates in 2026 Every month, we receive a large number of applications for job positions and internships. Most of...
5th Jul 2026
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Job Opportunities at Benny Kuriakose and Associates in 2026

from Benny Kuriakose [alt+shift+b] in architecture

5th Jul 2026
Every month, we receive a large number of applications for job positions and internships. Most of them sent the application three or more times, sometimes even more. With so many colleges, this will be the case with most of the firms. Many aspirants are keen on joining the...
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Mapping Francis Younghusband in the Gobi Desert, 1887, Part 3: Hun-kua-ling sandhills to Ya-hu oasis [Go back to Part 2: From the Galpin Gobi to the Hun-kua-ling sandhills.] From here to the Ya-hu...
29th Jun 2020
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Mapping Francis Younghusband in the Gobi Desert, 1887, Part 3: Hun-kua-ling sandhills to Ya-hu oasis

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29th Jun 2020
[Go back to Part 2: From the Galpin Gobi to the Hun-kua-ling sandhills.] From here to the Ya-hu oasis (which Younghusband reaches on June 23rd) the route is obscure, and we find old maps less useful. We have to rely more upon comparing his route description with images of the...
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The Reflector That Started a Conversation A small safety tool helped shine a light on a much bigger challenge.
1st Jul 2026
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The Reflector That Started a Conversation

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1st Jul 2026
A small safety tool helped shine a light on a much bigger challenge.
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How many breaths does it take to grow a home in the forrest? An essay on the interconnectedness of Everything.
17th Aug 2025
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How many breaths does it take to grow a home in the forrest?

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17th Aug 2025
An essay on the interconnectedness of Everything.
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The Brilliant, Unhinged Spectacle of Megalopolis A rare film that celebrates design and urban planning, Coppola’s latest epic is a mishmash of...
2nd Oct 2024
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The Brilliant, Unhinged Spectacle of Megalopolis

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2nd Oct 2024
A rare film that celebrates design and urban planning, Coppola’s latest epic is a mishmash of architectural, cinematic, and literary history.
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Homeless and Shelters in São Paulo When I was looking at the homeless census maps, my curiosity was sparked and I started to wonder...
17th Jan 2022
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Homeless and Shelters in São Paulo

from Blog - Guerrilla Cartography [alt+shift+b] in architecture

17th Jan 2022
When I was looking at the homeless census maps, my curiosity was sparked and I started to wonder what other visualizations and cartographical explorations could be possible. I have a deep interest in censuses because I have been working specifically in a peripheral communities’...
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Architects call for a crisis meeting after politicians demand more traditional architecture After enduring decades of failed modernism, the residents and politicians of Sweden’s second-largest...
17th May 2024
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Architects call for a crisis meeting after politicians demand more traditional architecture

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17th May 2024
After enduring decades of failed modernism, the residents and politicians of Sweden’s second-largest city, Gothenburg, want to see more new traditional architecture. This has led architects and officials to call for a crisis meeting. During the 1960s and 1970s, Gothenburg...
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Fake Views – The Contrast Between Renderings and Reality A shining sun, playful children, overwhelming greenery and new neighborhoods with a richer wildlife...
3rd Jan 2024
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Fake Views – The Contrast Between Renderings and Reality

from THE ARCHITECTURAL UPRISING [alt+shift+b] in architecture

3rd Jan 2024
A shining sun, playful children, overwhelming greenery and new neighborhoods with a richer wildlife than a Zoo. We have all seen them, the vision images that promise an idyll but result in a visual nightmare. Here‘s a few examples. Renderings are a visual representation of a...
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The Architectural League of New York seeks its next Program Director Following our previous look at an opening for a Project Architect at STUDIO BANAA, we are using this...
1st Apr 2026
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The Architectural League of New York seeks its next Program Director

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1st Apr 2026
Following our previous look at an opening for a Project Architect at STUDIO BANAA, we are using this week’s edition of our Job Highlights series to explore an open role on Archinect Jobs for a Program Director at the Architectural League of New York. The role, based in New York...
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A Stepped Design For This Renovated Century-Old Edwardian House In San Francisco Andrew Mann Architecture has shared photos of a century-old Edwardian house they renovated in a...
6th May 2024
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A Stepped Design For This Renovated Century-Old Edwardian House In San Francisco

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6th May 2024
Andrew Mann Architecture has shared photos of a century-old Edwardian house they renovated in a bustling San Francisco neighborhood.
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How Serifs Lost the Road War but Won the Streets It is 1961. At Benson Airfield in south Oxfordshire, a test car driver employed by the Roads...
3rd Nov 2021
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How Serifs Lost the Road War but Won the Streets

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3rd Nov 2021
It is 1961. At Benson Airfield in south Oxfordshire, a test car driver employed by the Roads Research Laboratory is revving the engine of his Morris Oxford and preparing to release the handbrake. With his car (unbalanced atop due to the addition of a large road sign attached to...
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Case study home #3 - Vernacular vibes near Budapest Local vernacular passive house among the vines
10th Jun 2025
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Case study home #3 - Vernacular vibes near Budapest

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10th Jun 2025
Local vernacular passive house among the vines
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“I called them Ghosts”. Visual Poems and Sequences by George Wylesol George Wylesol is a Baltimore-based artist who primarily produces illustrations and comic-like...
14th Apr 2024
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“I called them Ghosts”. Visual Poems and Sequences by George Wylesol

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14th Apr 2024
George Wylesol is a Baltimore-based artist who primarily produces illustrations and comic-like sequences of drawings, often accompanied by written text in the form of short poems. His works blend mundane objects and settings with surreal plots and visual associations, resulting...
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Situated Software Written by Clay Shirky First published March 30, 2004 on the "Networks, Economics, and...
14th Mar 2020
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Situated Software

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14th Mar 2020
Written by Clay Shirky First published March 30, 2004 on the "Networks, Economics, and Culture" mailing list. Subscribe to the mailing list. I teach at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), where the student population is about evenly divided between...
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Love Letter Back Home Mapped October 5th, written December 2019: As I noted in my last Guerrilla Cartography Cartographer...
27th Jan 2021
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Love Letter Back Home

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27th Jan 2021
Mapped October 5th, written December 2019: As I noted in my last Guerrilla Cartography Cartographer Spotlight (May 2019), my career has been a diverse mix of my two professional passions, cartography and participatory mapping. Cartography is about the place; it’s top-down, it’s...
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2007-core nostalgia extravaganza Quick PSA: someone on Facebook is apparently impersonating me using an account called “McMansion...
1st Sep 2024
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2007-core nostalgia extravaganza

from McMansion Hell [alt+shift+b] in architecture

1st Sep 2024
Quick PSA: someone on Facebook is apparently impersonating me using an account called “McMansion Hell 2.0” – If you see it, please report! Thanks! Howdy folks! I hope if you were born between 1995 and 2001 you’re ready for some indelible pre-recession vibes because I think this...
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The Brutalist: A Cinematic Architect’s Dream—and Nightmare The film’s portrayal of its architect protagonist is entirely predictable, but carries a note of...
3rd Feb 2025
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The Brutalist: A Cinematic Architect’s Dream—and Nightmare

from Common Edge [alt+shift+b] in architecture

3rd Feb 2025
The film’s portrayal of its architect protagonist is entirely predictable, but carries a note of caution.
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Box Fresh: five homes under five years old As we are well aware, a modern house has multiple meanings and can span as far back as the early...
24th Jan 2025
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Box Fresh: five homes under five years old

from The Modern House [alt+shift+b] in architecture

24th Jan 2025
As we are well aware, a modern house has multiple meanings and can span as far back as the early 20th century. This week however, we’ve decided to look to the more recent past and marvel at how architects and developers are translating the requirements […]
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Places in Time III This third and most likely last installment in the inadvertent "Places in Time" series looks closely...
4th Dec 2023
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Places in Time III

from A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books [alt+shift+b] in architecture

4th Dec 2023
This third and most likely last installment in the inadvertent "Places in Time" series looks closely at three books: the first about Chicago from the Great Depression to the mid-1980s; the second one about the broader American built landscape over roughly the same period of time;...
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LED Lighting Is Hidden Throughout This Home To Create A Soft Warm Glow Interior design studio, Pure AW’s Designers Ltd, has shared a modern apartment they completed in...
1st Jun 2023
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LED Lighting Is Hidden Throughout This Home To Create A Soft Warm Glow

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1st Jun 2023
Interior design studio, Pure AW’s Designers Ltd, has shared a modern apartment they completed in Kowloon, Hong Kong, that combines warm woods and soft lighting. Designed for a couple with two children, the apartment’s interior is influenced by traditional Nordic aesthetics and...
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A Guide to Interior Photography of Historic Buildings - Part III Interior views add valuable information to the documentation of a historic building. To capture the...
10th Apr 2023
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A Guide to Interior Photography of Historic Buildings - Part III

from Benny Kuriakose [alt+shift+b] in architecture

10th Apr 2023
Interior views add valuable information to the documentation of a historic building. To capture the true essence of the building, the...
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Guerrillas in the Midst: Crowdsourcing Cartography When I think about what Guerrilla Cartography does, I think of building and creating something new...
26th Aug 2024
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Guerrillas in the Midst: Crowdsourcing Cartography

from Blog - Guerrilla Cartography [alt+shift+b] in architecture

26th Aug 2024
When I think about what Guerrilla Cartography does, I think of building and creating something new from many different pieces, like a puzzle that only makes sense once it’s put together. But unlike a puzzle, there is no single correct way to put the pieces together, as they can...
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MSG Two MSG quotes: “In animal studies, injecting high doses of MSG into the brains of rats made them...
22nd May 2021
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MSG

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22nd May 2021
Two MSG quotes: “In animal studies, injecting high doses of MSG into the brains of rats made them fat.” – Wikipedia “Through Pennsylvania Station one entered the city like a god…. One scuttles in now like a rat” [under Madison … Continue reading → The post MSG appeared first on...
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On the Future of Cities The recent publication of two books prompted me to ponder the future of cities and do a write-up of...
6th Nov 2023
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On the Future of Cities

from A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books [alt+shift+b] in architecture

6th Nov 2023
The recent publication of two books prompted me to ponder the future of cities and do a write-up of them together: Implementing Urban Design: Green, Civic, and Community Strategies by Jonathan Barnett, published by Routledge, June 2023 (Amazon / Bookshop) Renewing the Dream: The...
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White Elephants in the State of Vermont This map, which originally appeared in the Community atlas, has been revised. The typeface has been...
14th Jul 2020
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White Elephants in the State of Vermont

from Blog - Guerrilla Cartography [alt+shift+b] in architecture

14th Jul 2020
This map, which originally appeared in the Community atlas, has been revised. The typeface has been changed to Cornerstone, which is used in the logo for the Black Lives Matter movement. How did you decide to map what you mapped for the Community atlas?  That was the question...
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Never(?) Decreasing Circles (Railtrack/Network Rail major station logos, UK (continued)) One of the most enduringly popular articles on this website (at least in terms of clicks and...
27th Nov 2024
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Never(?) Decreasing Circles (Railtrack/Network Rail major station logos, UK (continued))

from The Beauty of Transport [alt+shift+b] in architecture

27th Nov 2024
One of the most enduringly popular articles on this website (at least in terms of clicks and re-posts) is a very early one, from 2013. It concerns the graphic identities created for Railtrack’s major stations by Citigate Lloyd Northover. These ones… Firstly – have I really been...
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The Wide Open When the Endangered Species Act passed in 1973, it was considered a bipartisan home run. The Act...
4th Feb 2025
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The Wide Open

from 99% Invisible [alt+shift+b] in architecture

4th Feb 2025
When the Endangered Species Act passed in 1973, it was considered a bipartisan home run. The Act established protections for plants and animals on the endangered and threatened species lists, and across the aisle, everyone seemed to agree that it would be bad for a bunch of...
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Does Brooklyn’s New Brooding Monolith Deserve Kudos? Closer in, SHoP’s Brooklyn Tower reveals texture, color, and personality, but for many it’s a bleak...
2nd Oct 2023
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Does Brooklyn’s New Brooding Monolith Deserve Kudos?

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2nd Oct 2023
Closer in, SHoP’s Brooklyn Tower reveals texture, color, and personality, but for many it’s a bleak middle finger on the skyline.
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Meet Me at Riis There’s a particular slice of beach along the New York City shoreline, that, for the past 80 years,...
5th Nov 2024
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Meet Me at Riis

from 99% Invisible [alt+shift+b] in architecture

5th Nov 2024
There’s a particular slice of beach along the New York City shoreline, that, for the past 80 years, has been a pivotal site for queer liberation. It’s called the People’s Beach at Jacob Riis Park, also known, simply, as Riis. This history is deeply connected to an abandoned,...
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Building the Bell System If someone was making a list of the most important American companies today, it’s unlikely AT&T...
3rd Jul 2024
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Building the Bell System

from Construction Physics [alt+shift+b] in architecture

3rd Jul 2024
If someone was making a list of the most important American companies today, it’s unlikely AT&T would be anywhere near the top. It’s large, but not notably so: it came in 32nd in the 2024 Fortune 500 ranking, just above Comcast and below Verizon. Its offerings are not unique:...
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The Making of Unique Athangudi Tiles : An Unforgettable Experience Chettinad, the land of wealthy Chettiars in the southern part of Tamil Nadu, is famous not only for...
1st Oct 2023
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The Making of Unique Athangudi Tiles : An Unforgettable Experience

from Benny Kuriakose [alt+shift+b] in architecture

1st Oct 2023
Chettinad, the land of wealthy Chettiars in the southern part of Tamil Nadu, is famous not only for its mouth-watering cuisine but also...
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Join Us In Building The Best New Housing In America An open call to kindred spirits who want to build a better future
7th May 2024
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Join Us In Building The Best New Housing In America

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7th May 2024
An open call to kindred spirits who want to build a better future
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This Home Has A Living Room That Extends Over The Swimming Pool Below Daniel Marshall Architect (DMA) has shared photos of a new home they designed in New Zealand, that...
11th Apr 2023
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This Home Has A Living Room That Extends Over The Swimming Pool Below

from Contemporist Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in architecture

11th Apr 2023
Daniel Marshall Architect (DMA) has shared photos of a new home they designed in New Zealand, that includes a cantilevered living room.
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Why Architects Need to be Part of Evolving A.I. Policy Strategic imagination is what we do, but it’s crucially missing in both federal and state efforts to...
1st Sep 2025
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Why Architects Need to be Part of Evolving A.I. Policy

from Common Edge [alt+shift+b] in architecture

1st Sep 2025
Strategic imagination is what we do, but it’s crucially missing in both federal and state efforts to build and manage our A.I. future.
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It Looked Familiar: Contrast In Gotham, a cathedral surrounded by skyscrapers: In New York, a cathedral surrounded by...
1st Feb 2026
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It Looked Familiar: Contrast

from Old Structures Engineering [alt+shift+b] in architecture

1st Feb 2026
In Gotham, a cathedral surrounded by skyscrapers: In New York, a cathedral surrounded by skyscrapers, albeit without a crossing tower:
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Why Disband the Urban Design Group Just as New York City Ramps Up Housing Development? As the saying goes: If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
2nd Feb 2026
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Why Disband the Urban Design Group Just as New York City Ramps Up Housing Development?

from Common Edge [alt+shift+b] in architecture

2nd Feb 2026
As the saying goes: If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
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A Modern Home That Makes Space For An Art Gallery Alterstudio Architecture has shared photos of a new home they completed in Dallas, Texas, with a...
4th Feb 2025
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A Modern Home That Makes Space For An Art Gallery

from CONTEMPORIST [alt+shift+b] in architecture

4th Feb 2025
Alterstudio Architecture has shared photos of a new home they completed in Dallas, Texas, with a three-level design that creates a unique environment for family and art. A low berm of rocks planted with native grasses, cacti, and shrubs separates the residence from the street. A...
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Christmas Cards from the Architects 2024 It’s that time again. It is the time of year when the architects turn their attention from their...
12th Dec 2024
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Christmas Cards from the Architects 2024

from Coffee with an Architect [alt+shift+b] in architecture

12th Dec 2024
It’s that time again. It is the time of year when the architects turn their attention from their Dec. 25th deadline to thoughts of Christmas. Here we are, sitting by the floor-to-ceiling glass storefronts in our offices, staring out at the rolling hills covered with snow,...
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Stop Banking on Subsidies and Start Building What Works As Norwalk navigates a housing crisis, one thing is clear: the path forward isn’t scale for scale’s...
1st Jul 2025
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Stop Banking on Subsidies and Start Building What Works

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1st Jul 2025
As Norwalk navigates a housing crisis, one thing is clear: the path forward isn’t scale for scale’s sake—it’s building smarter, more affordably, and with the community in mind.
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Blocking Sediment Migration Blocking Sediment Migration from Colorado River Basin to Gulf of California I didn’t intend to map...
8th Mar 2020
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Blocking Sediment Migration

from Blog - Guerrilla Cartography [alt+shift+b] in architecture

8th Mar 2020
Blocking Sediment Migration from Colorado River Basin to Gulf of California I didn’t intend to map human migration for the Atlas in a Day project. My plans for a map of the migration of sediment in rivers raised some eyebrows at home, mostly wondering how the subject would fit in...
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Custom Bunk Beds Were Designed For This Jungle-Themed Kid’s Bedroom Interior design firm Britt White Studio has shared photos of a jungle-themed kid’s bedroom they...
2nd Jul 2023
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Custom Bunk Beds Were Designed For This Jungle-Themed Kid’s Bedroom

from CONTEMPORIST [alt+shift+b] in architecture

2nd Jul 2023
Interior design firm Britt White Studio has shared photos of a jungle-themed kid’s bedroom they designed as part of an overall penthouse project. The room was designed for two brothers, aged 7 and 9, who worked directly with the designers for the creation of their shared room,...
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MAD completes 'cloud-like' Tencent headquarters in Shenzhen MAD has completed Tengyun Center, a new headquarters complex for Tencent in Shenzhen, China. As we...
1st Jul 2026
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MAD completes 'cloud-like' Tencent headquarters in Shenzhen

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1st Jul 2026
MAD has completed Tengyun Center, a new headquarters complex for Tencent in Shenzhen, China. As we previously reported, the 775,000-square-foot "cloud" building comprises five blocks, seeking to rethink the conventional corporate campus with more public offerings. Image credit:...
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Design Paths Design is hard. The path you follow from start to finish is never a straight line. If only there...
1st Mar 2024
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Design Paths

from Coffee with an Architect [alt+shift+b] in architecture

1st Mar 2024
Design is hard. The path you follow from start to finish is never a straight line. If only there were a handful of clear diagrams to explain the process. This isn’t that:
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My Comments at the Midtown South Social Equity and Music Festival Fifty-one years ago, the Pennsylvania Railroad tragically tore down Pennsylvania Station. Not only...
15th Sep 2024
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My Comments at the Midtown South Social Equity and Music Festival

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15th Sep 2024
Fifty-one years ago, the Pennsylvania Railroad tragically tore down Pennsylvania Station. Not only is it the best building ever torn down in New York, but in the combined Penn Station and Madison Square Garden, we got the worst building in … Continue reading → The post My...
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Imagine Standing There Every so often, I mention New York’s industrial past. Compared to a truly industrial city like...
1st Mar 2024
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Imagine Standing There

from Old Structures Engineering [alt+shift+b] in architecture

1st Mar 2024
Every so often, I mention New York’s industrial past. Compared to a truly industrial city like Philadelphia or Chicago, it’s small-scale stuff, but compared to the present it’s astonishing. Looking at one of the parts of the city devoted to industry before 1920, it’s hard to...
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New on Patreon: New Jersey Bonus Post (5 additional, “wonderful” rooms!“ new jersey bonus post: 5 additional, wonderful rooms | McMansionHell New on Patreon: New Jersey...
30th Nov 2024
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New on Patreon: New Jersey Bonus Post (5 additional, “wonderful” rooms!“

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30th Nov 2024
new jersey bonus post: 5 additional, wonderful rooms | McMansionHell New on Patreon: New Jersey Bonus Post (5 additional, “wonderful” rooms!“
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7-Stage Solar Design Review - launched! Together we make your home healthier, full of sunlight & abound with natural energy
25th Nov 2022
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7-Stage Solar Design Review - launched!

from The Solarchitecture Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in architecture

25th Nov 2022
Together we make your home healthier, full of sunlight & abound with natural energy
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Architect Christmas Cards 2023 It’s that time of year again when a grinches, I mean an architect’s, heart grows 3 sizes and they...
13th Dec 2023
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Architect Christmas Cards 2023

from Coffee with an Architect [alt+shift+b] in architecture

13th Dec 2023
It’s that time of year again when a grinches, I mean an architect’s, heart grows 3 sizes and they realize the true meaning of Christmas. Ignoring heat gain coefficients and just using all glass on the new design for Santa’s experimental workshop/atelier anyway. It’s a Christmas...
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Reports of his death were greatly exaggerated… A friend and colleague turned me onto AI obituaries. Think of them as interesting and amusing rather...
22nd Apr 2025
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Reports of his death were greatly exaggerated…

from There are two types of architecture—good architecture, and the other kind [alt+shift+b] in architecture

22nd Apr 2025
A friend and colleague turned me onto AI obituaries. Think of them as interesting and amusing rather than morbid or morose. This one is from AI Copilot. John Massengale AIA CNU Celebrating a Visionary Mind in Urban Design and Architecture … Continue reading → The post Reports of...
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A Contemporary Reimagination Of A Classic New York Pizza Parlor Architecture firm MRDK has recently completed North of Brooklyn Pizzeria in Toronto, Canada, that...
17th Jul 2023
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A Contemporary Reimagination Of A Classic New York Pizza Parlor

from Contemporist Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in architecture

17th Jul 2023
Architecture firm MRDK has recently completed North of Brooklyn Pizzeria in Toronto, Canada, that balances nostalgia and modernity.
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Poetics of the Greenhouse: Works by Bernard Moninot Bernard Moninot is a French multimedia artist. Over the 1970s and the 1980s, he produced a series of...
12th Jun 2022
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Poetics of the Greenhouse: Works by Bernard Moninot

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12th Jun 2022
Bernard Moninot is a French multimedia artist. Over the 1970s and the 1980s, he produced a series of drawings, (inks, crayons and acrylics) of greenhouses based on various modes of representation, from axonometric projections, to outside central perspective or interiors views....
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Why do we need infrastructure policy? My title at IFP is "Senior Infrastructure Fellow," which means that in addition to publishing this...
1st Sep 2023
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Why do we need infrastructure policy?

from Construction Physics [alt+shift+b] in architecture

1st Sep 2023
My title at IFP is "Senior Infrastructure Fellow," which means that in addition to publishing this newsletter, I do work related to infrastructure policy. At a high level, that work is figuring out which things we should be building, and how we can make building those things...
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Buildings are important People are born in themGrow up in them Fall in love in them Get married in them Raise kids in them...
31st Aug 2023
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Buildings are important

from Coffee with an Architect [alt+shift+b] in architecture

31st Aug 2023
People are born in themGrow up in them Fall in love in them Get married in them Raise kids in them Grow old in them Die in them Buildings are important. People decide big things here Decide on small things too Draw conclusions inside Make plans Change plans Change our minds Make...
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The Rise of Steel - Part I One of the defining characteristics of the modern world is the ubiquity of steel. Nearly every...
5th Jan 2023
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The Rise of Steel - Part I

from Construction Physics [alt+shift+b] in architecture

5th Jan 2023
One of the defining characteristics of the modern world is the ubiquity of steel. Nearly every product of industrial civilization relies on steel, either as a component or as part of the equipment used to produce it. Without it, Vaclav Smil notes in “Still the Iron Age”, modern...
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Cover Story (Workington Bus Station, Workington, Cumbria, UK) Sometimes you seek out transport architecture, at others transport architecture is thrust upon you,...
6th Oct 2021
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Cover Story (Workington Bus Station, Workington, Cumbria, UK)

from The Beauty of Transport [alt+shift+b] in architecture

6th Oct 2021
Sometimes you seek out transport architecture, at others transport architecture is thrust upon you, just as it was when I accidentally ended up in Workington a couple of months ago. With poor weather forecast on one of the days of a trip to the Lake District, I spent the day...
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A guide to not being a sidewalk jerk Hello friends. It has become apparent that you are all terrible at being pedestrians. I feel...
1st Feb 2016
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A guide to not being a sidewalk jerk

from Cartogrammar [alt+shift+b] in architecture

1st Feb 2016
Hello friends. It has become apparent that you are all terrible at being pedestrians. I feel confident saying that despite some good eggs and battle-tested walkers such as New Yorkers, most Americans are obliviously selfish, inconsiderate users of sidewalk space. It’s true even...
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The Evolution of Tunnel Boring Machines Tunneling is an important technology for modern civilization, as a tunnel is often the only...
6th Oct 2023
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The Evolution of Tunnel Boring Machines

from Construction Physics [alt+shift+b] in architecture

6th Oct 2023
Tunneling is an important technology for modern civilization, as a tunnel is often the only reasonable way to create a direct path between two points. When the Hoosac tunnel was completed in 1875, it turned a difficult, 20-mile railroad route along “
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