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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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Multimodal From 1911, a much-worn postcard showing Park Row: City Hall is off to the left, amongst the trees;...
1st Apr 2026
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Multimodal

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

1st Apr 2026
From 1911, a much-worn postcard showing Park Row: City Hall is off to the left, amongst the trees; the big stone building on the right is the old New York Times headquarters, although the Times had moved uptown to Longacre Square, renamed after them, seven years earlier. The...
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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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The Inbetweeners (Ebbsfleet International and Stratford International, UK) Well then. At the end of the last article I promised to write about the stations on HS2 phase 1...
29th May 2024
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The Inbetweeners (Ebbsfleet International and Stratford International, UK)

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

29th May 2024
Well then. At the end of the last article I promised to write about the stations on HS2 phase 1 assuming that I hadn’t been too enraged by the political fallout from hopefully soon-to-be-ex-prime minister Rishi Sunak’s cancellation of phase 2 of HS2. Reader, I have been enraged....
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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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Want To Bring Your Neighborhood Back to Life? This South Bend Developer Shows How. This homegrown developer is bringing practical, thoughtful, and community-focused housing to...
1st Oct 2025
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Want To Bring Your Neighborhood Back to Life? This South Bend Developer Shows How.

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1st Oct 2025
This homegrown developer is bringing practical, thoughtful, and community-focused housing to disinvested neighborhoods in South Bend, Indiana.
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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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Stairs With Built-In Planters Lead To The Back Garden At This Home Lior Brosh of Brosh Architects has shared photos of a recently completed renovation project in...
1st May 2023
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Stairs With Built-In Planters Lead To The Back Garden At This Home

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1st May 2023
Lior Brosh of Brosh Architects has shared photos of a recently completed renovation project in Greater London, England, that included new outdoor stairs with built-in planters. The client contacted the architects to renovate the lower ground floor of the house due to severe damp...
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Semiconductor fab reading list Like with most types of construction, there's no one source that explains how a semiconductor fab is...
3rd May 2024
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Semiconductor fab reading list

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3rd May 2024
Like with most types of construction, there's no one source that explains how a semiconductor fab is built and operates. But there's an enormous amount written about semiconductors and the technology used to manufacture them, much of it excellent and informative, which makes it...
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The rain on terrain If you poured water over the terrain somewhere in the world, where would it go? That’s perhaps one...
14th Oct 2016
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The rain on terrain

from Cartogrammar [alt+shift+b] in architecture

14th Oct 2016
If you poured water over the terrain somewhere in the world, where would it go? That’s perhaps one way to think of the thing that distracted me in the evenings this week. [Edit: an interactive map should appear here, but there are some unresolved issues. Check out the...
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Duck And Height What Do You Think You're Looking At? #279
26th Aug 2026
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Duck And Height

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26th Aug 2026
What Do You Think You're Looking At? #279
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GENERAL NOTES: *feel free to add these to your construction documents
11th Apr 2023
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GENERAL NOTES:

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11th Apr 2023
*feel free to add these to your construction documents
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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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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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Brick Is The Material Of Choice For This New Home Architecture and interiors firm Enter Projects Asia, has shared photos of a home they completed in...
15th Sep 2024
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Brick Is The Material Of Choice For This New Home

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15th Sep 2024
Architecture and interiors firm Enter Projects Asia, has shared photos of a home they completed in Phuket, Thailand, that blends design and traditional artisanal craftsmanship.
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A Circular Sunken Firepit Is Nestled Into The Desert Landscape Of This Home Architecture firm The Ranch Mine has sent us photos of a new home they completed in Paradise Valley,...
1st Feb 2024
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A Circular Sunken Firepit Is Nestled Into The Desert Landscape Of This Home

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1st Feb 2024
Architecture firm The Ranch Mine has sent us photos of a new home they completed in Paradise Valley, Arizona, that breaks down the barriers between indoor and outdoor living. As you approach the house, the first thing that captures the eye is the striking interplay of metal fins...
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My Favourite Parks Are Car Parks (Worcestershire Parkway, Worcestershire, UK) A very particular kind of hush descends as the 1253 to Worcester Shrub Hill departs. That hush is...
12th Oct 2022
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My Favourite Parks Are Car Parks (Worcestershire Parkway, Worcestershire, UK)

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

12th Oct 2022
A very particular kind of hush descends as the 1253 to Worcester Shrub Hill departs. That hush is the hush of the parkway station between train services, and the station it has just departed from is Worcestershire Parkway. Though one of the best designed parkway stations, and a...
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The Astor Building 2 Keeping on with the construction photos of the St. Regis Hotel under its temporary name “the Astor...
1st Sep 2026
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The Astor Building 2

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

1st Sep 2026
Keeping on with the construction photos of the St. Regis Hotel under its temporary name “the Astor Building”… Unlike my previous dive into the construction photos of the Equitable Trust Building on Broad Street, the main sequence photos here (which are numbered and dated) begin...
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On Yglesias on Manufactured Homes A few weeks ago, Matt Yglesias wrote “How to Unleash a Trailer Home Boom," which outlines a strategy...
5th Jan 2024
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On Yglesias on Manufactured Homes

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5th Jan 2024
A few weeks ago, Matt Yglesias wrote “How to Unleash a Trailer Home Boom," which outlines a strategy for getting more manufactured homes built. Broadly, Yglesias proposes ending HUD code requirements that manufactured homes have a steel chassis, making it easier and less...
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Black Accents Contrast The Wood And White Material Palette Of This Home Design and interior architecture firm EntreQuatreMurs (EQM) has completed the contemporary interiors...
4th Dec 2023
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Black Accents Contrast The Wood And White Material Palette Of This Home

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4th Dec 2023
Design and interior architecture firm EntreQuatreMurs (EQM) has completed the contemporary interiors of a home in Quebec, Canada, that was originally built in 1959. The house had not been renovated for several decades and featured typical enclosed rooms and small, narrow, dark...
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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

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

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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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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Ohio is still a piano In a hundred years, no one will remember our work. Strike that, make it about five years. Digital,...
8th Mar 2016
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Ohio is still a piano

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8th Mar 2016
In a hundred years, no one will remember our work. Strike that, make it about five years. Digital, web-based work can break or disappear in an instant. I’ve certainly done some things which are now gone forever. Anyway, one broken thing was the crazy Ohio piano map I made nearly...
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A Requiem for MIT’s Room 10-485 Memories of a space whose unique qualities helped nurture a burgeoning planner from East Los...
3rd Nov 2025
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A Requiem for MIT’s Room 10-485

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3rd Nov 2025
Memories of a space whose unique qualities helped nurture a burgeoning planner from East Los Angeles.
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The Deceptive Grandeur of City Skylines Empty office towers are likely to remain that way for years.
5th Aug 2024
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The Deceptive Grandeur of City Skylines

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5th Aug 2024
Empty office towers are likely to remain that way for years.
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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

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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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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))

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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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Suburbia I found myself in Westchester County, north of the city a few months ago. Smile for the camera,...
1st Nov 2025
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Suburbia

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1st Nov 2025
I found myself in Westchester County, north of the city a few months ago. Smile for the camera, Bambi:
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Book Briefs #35 Revisited Last week I cobbled together eight books, some of which publishers had sent me more than a year ago,...
5th Jun 2023
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Book Briefs #35 Revisited

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

5th Jun 2023
Last week I cobbled together eight books, some of which publishers had sent me more than a year ago, in an effort to write a "Better Late Than Never" installment of "Book Briefs,"  something I had done back in April 2018 with Book Briefs #35. But, sensing I would not be able to...
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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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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

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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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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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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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The Brooklyn-Queens Connector’s Greatest Risk Is Leaving Money on the Table The IBX, New York City’s biggest transit expansion since World War II, could unlock tens of...
2 days ago
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The Brooklyn-Queens Connector’s Greatest Risk Is Leaving Money on the Table

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2 days ago
The IBX, New York City’s biggest transit expansion since World War II, could unlock tens of thousands of homes and billions in value.
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on neuschwanstein castle (part 1) This is an essay in two parts. Neuschwanstein Concept Drawing by the stage designer (!!) Christian...
28th Dec 2024
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on neuschwanstein castle (part 1)

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28th Dec 2024
This is an essay in two parts. Neuschwanstein Concept Drawing by the stage designer (!!) Christian Jank (1869). There exist in architecture clear precedents to the McMansion that have nothing to do with suburban real estate. This is because “McMansionry” (let’s say) has many...
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Picturing an Exhibition: Closing the 18th Venice Architecture Biennale Much in the architecture world, and the world at large, has changed since the exhibition opened.
5th Dec 2023
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Picturing an Exhibition: Closing the 18th Venice Architecture Biennale

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5th Dec 2023
Much in the architecture world, and the world at large, has changed since the exhibition opened.
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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

from devonzuegel.com [alt+shift+b] in architecture

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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Inside Argentina's currency exchange black markets In Argentina, your money is worth double if you skip the airport currency exchange and instead go to...
10th Sep 2022
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Inside Argentina's currency exchange black markets

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10th Sep 2022
In Argentina, your money is worth double if you skip the airport currency exchange and instead go to one of the many black market exchanges hidden throughout Buenos Aires. These illegal exchanges are called "cuevas" (the word for "cave" in Spanish), and they are a crucial part of...
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This New House Was Designed To Fit Into A Protected Historic Neighborhood Architecture firm FLOWER, together with interior design studio Saltwolf, has completed a new home in...
19th Apr 2024
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This New House Was Designed To Fit Into A Protected Historic Neighborhood

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19th Apr 2024
Architecture firm FLOWER, together with interior design studio Saltwolf, has completed a new home in Boulder, Colorado, whose design was inspired by the nearby historic houses in the neighborhood.
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What Happens After the Zoning Code Says "Yes" One extra home can change the rules, the costs, and who can afford to build.
2nd Oct 2026
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What Happens After the Zoning Code Says "Yes"

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2nd Oct 2026
One extra home can change the rules, the costs, and who can afford to build.
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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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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…

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

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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Panama City Walking Tour: the Old Town of Casco Viejo Built in waves across centuries, it tells a story on every street.
7th Apr 2025
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Panama City Walking Tour: the Old Town of Casco Viejo

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7th Apr 2025
Built in waves across centuries, it tells a story on every street.
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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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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

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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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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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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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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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Airport Reading List The major sources I found helpful for learning about airports and their construction are listed...
3rd Mar 2024
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Airport Reading List

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

3rd Mar 2024
The major sources I found helpful for learning about airports and their construction are listed below. As usual, these are listed roughly in order of how useful I found them. And because “useful” isn’t the same as “actually interesting to read” I’ve marked the books that are...
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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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mojo dojo casa house Howdy folks! Sorry for the delay, I was, uhhhh covering the Tour de France. Anyway, I’m back in...
13th Aug 2023
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mojo dojo casa house

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13th Aug 2023
Howdy folks! Sorry for the delay, I was, uhhhh covering the Tour de France. Anyway, I’m back in Chicago which means this blog has returned to the Chicago suburbs. I’m sure you’ve all seen Barbie at this point so this 2019 not-so-dream house will come as a pleasant (?)...
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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

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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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Myopia: Observing Communities in Chiang Mai, Thailand The genesis for “My Parallel Communities of Chiang Mai (ชุมขนคู่ขนานที่เชียงใหม่)” likely began on a...
8th Oct 2020
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Myopia: Observing Communities in Chiang Mai, Thailand

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8th Oct 2020
The genesis for “My Parallel Communities of Chiang Mai (ชุมขนคู่ขนานที่เชียงใหม่)” likely began on a calm, wet-season night after the rains had subsided at One Nimman, my group of friends — portrait artists from Chiang Mai University — shooting the breeze and hustling what money...
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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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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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“One Can No Longer Distinguish the Sun’s Outline”: Atlas of Clouds and of States of the Sky (1930) A cloud atlas is a visual depiction of various types of clouds accompanied by their classification...
24th Mar 2024
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“One Can No Longer Distinguish the Sun’s Outline”: Atlas of Clouds and of States of the Sky (1930)

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24th Mar 2024
A cloud atlas is a visual depiction of various types of clouds accompanied by their classification and nomenclature. Cloud atlases were primarily developed starting in the 19th century and utilised for training weather forecasters and meteorologists. The 1930’s International...
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How Valuable Are Building Methods That Use Fewer Materials? Materials make up a substantial fraction of the costs of new construction. When we previously looked...
6th Feb 2024
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How Valuable Are Building Methods That Use Fewer Materials?

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6th Feb 2024
Materials make up a substantial fraction of the costs of new construction. When we previously looked at a collection of 40 different construction tasks, on average materials made up 62% of the cost of the task. And for an average new house, materials make up roughly 50% of direct...
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The ‘City of Yes’ Will Make a Big Manhattan Mess City council is expected to vote on the controversial proposal soon.
1st Nov 2024
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The ‘City of Yes’ Will Make a Big Manhattan Mess

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1st Nov 2024
City council is expected to vote on the controversial proposal soon.
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Why Minnesota’s Northstar Service Was Doomed From the Start The state could've used commuter rail, but Northstar didn't deliver.
2nd Feb 2026
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Why Minnesota’s Northstar Service Was Doomed From the Start

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2nd Feb 2026
The state could've used commuter rail, but Northstar didn't deliver.
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we’ve found it folks: mcmansion heaven Hello everyone. It is my pleasure to bring you the greatest house I have ever seen. The house of a...
2nd Feb 2024
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we’ve found it folks: mcmansion heaven

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2nd Feb 2024
Hello everyone. It is my pleasure to bring you the greatest house I have ever seen. The house of a true visionary. A real ad-hocist. A genuine pioneer of fenestration. This house is in Alabama. It was built in 1980 and costs around $5 million. It is worth every penny. Perhaps...
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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

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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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Dark Vertical Wood Siding Was Chosen As The Primary Exterior Cladding To “Camouflage” This Cabin Architecture firm Prentiss + Balance + Wickline has shared photos of a house they designed in...
7th Feb 2024
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Dark Vertical Wood Siding Was Chosen As The Primary Exterior Cladding To “Camouflage” This Cabin

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7th Feb 2024
Architecture firm Prentiss + Balance + Wickline has shared photos of a house they designed in Wawona, California, for a couple with grown children and their families.
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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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Oyler Wu Collaborative Wins International Competition for Taiwan's National Comic Museum Oyler Wu Collaborative, in partnership with SU mao ping Architecture Studio and JN Architects, has...
1st Jun 2026
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Oyler Wu Collaborative Wins International Competition for Taiwan's National Comic Museum

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1st Jun 2026
Oyler Wu Collaborative, in partnership with SU mao ping Architecture Studio and JN Architects, has won the international competition to design The National Taiwan Museum of Comics in Taichung. As a centerpiece of a long-awaited national vision initiated in 2017, the new museum is...
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Urban sprawl is a tragedy of the commons We tend to choose larger homes than we want our neighbors to choose. The result: sprawling...
4th Nov 2021
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Urban sprawl is a tragedy of the commons

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4th Nov 2021
We tend to choose larger homes than we want our neighbors to choose. The result: sprawling development that doesn't match what people actually want from their communities. People aim to maximize access and space when deciding where to live. All things equal, most people like...
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An Extension To This 1933 Home Creates A New Kitchen And Outdoor Terrace Heliotrope Architects has shared photos of a contemporary extension they completed for a home in...
7th Aug 2024
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An Extension To This 1933 Home Creates A New Kitchen And Outdoor Terrace

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7th Aug 2024
Heliotrope Architects has shared photos of a contemporary extension they completed for a home in Seattle, Washington, that was originally designed and built in 1933 by Norwegian boat captain Ole E. Nelson.
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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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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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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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Chairs For Sitting On Stairs ARTA Architects has designed the Tai Kwun Chairs for The Hong Kong Jockey Club, allowing a more...
6th Dec 2024
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Chairs For Sitting On Stairs

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6th Dec 2024
ARTA Architects has designed the Tai Kwun Chairs for The Hong Kong Jockey Club, allowing a more comfortable and modular seating solution for these stairs. The chairs complement the distinctive design languages of the Tai Kwun arts and cultural centre’s ancient and contemporary...
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Architecture Always Reflects the Values of Its Current Culture What we build is who we are.
8th Aug 2023
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Architecture Always Reflects the Values of Its Current Culture

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8th Aug 2023
What we build is who we are.
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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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This Alley Between Buildings Was Transformed With A Series Of Arches Photography by Robin Hill Daniel Toole Architecture in collaboration with SB Architects, has...
1st May 2024
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This Alley Between Buildings Was Transformed With A Series Of Arches

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1st May 2024
Photography by Robin Hill Daniel Toole Architecture in collaboration with SB Architects, has transformed a nondescript alley in Miami, Florida, with a series of concrete arches. Photography by Heywood Chan This alley was originally surrounded by trash rooms, dumpsters, mechanical...
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Got Very Big, Very Fast Yesterday, I mentioned two department stores in New York, the 1846 A. T. Stewart Store at Broadway...
1st Oct 2024
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Got Very Big, Very Fast

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1st Oct 2024
Yesterday, I mentioned two department stores in New York, the 1846 A. T. Stewart Store at Broadway and Chambers Street that was the first real department store in the US, and the 1896 Siegel-Cooper Store at Sixth Avenue and 18th Street that was for a time the largest store in the...
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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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The Hard Parts of Open Source, by Evan Czaplicki Speaker: Evan Czaplicki Meeting: Strange Loop 2018 - September 2018 Video:...
25th Jan 2019
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The Hard Parts of Open Source, by Evan Czaplicki

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25th Jan 2019
Speaker: Evan Czaplicki Meeting: Strange Loop 2018 - September 2018 Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_4EX4dPppA Slides: https://prezi.com/oowcpzsnwp-8/the-hard-parts-of-open-source/?webgl=0 [ References to videos, books, and articles mentioned in this...
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What’s the Point of Lower-Density Urbanism? We need new models for fixing existing sprawl and growing small towns.
5th Jul 2023
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What’s the Point of Lower-Density Urbanism?

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5th Jul 2023
We need new models for fixing existing sprawl and growing small towns.
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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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Reading List 07/05/2025 A microscopic electric motor, California’s CEQA rollback, a US shipbuilding startup, Chinese map...
5th Jul 2025
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Reading List 07/05/2025

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5th Jul 2025
A microscopic electric motor, California’s CEQA rollback, a US shipbuilding startup, Chinese map obfuscation, and more.
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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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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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With Rhetoric: The New York Apartment House WHEN I was in graduate school, I was one of the editors of VIA IV: “Culture and the Social Vision.”...
1st Dec 2024
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With Rhetoric: The New York Apartment House

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1st Dec 2024
WHEN I was in graduate school, I was one of the editors of VIA IV: “Culture and the Social Vision.” I helped Robert A.M. Stern write New York 1900, Metropolitan Architecture and Urbanism 1890-1915. My summer job turned into a … Continue reading → The post With Rhetoric: The New...
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here are some things i like Often people say to me, “Kate, you’re an architecture critic! You must have an impeccably designed...
28th Feb 2023
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here are some things i like

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28th Feb 2023
Often people say to me, “Kate, you’re an architecture critic! You must have an impeccably designed home full of wonderful design.” Haha, NO! However, I do think it’s entirely possible to collect design and live an aesthetically satisfying life on, like, a normal salary. Last...
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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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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

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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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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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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)

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9th Nov 2022
Stuck on the E20 motorway heading for Copenhagen? Køge Nord station very much hopes you are...
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The Challenge of Creating a Women-Friendly Architecture School in Afghanistan Years of effort have been undone by political strife, while earthquakes have further destroyed...
2nd Nov 2023
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The Challenge of Creating a Women-Friendly Architecture School in Afghanistan

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2nd Nov 2023
Years of effort have been undone by political strife, while earthquakes have further destroyed heritage structures.
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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

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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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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

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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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DONALD TRUMP & EVIL – A Post-Halloween / Election-Eve Story Almost forty years ago, I owned a small house in the Greenwich “backcountry” just a few miles from...
4th Nov 2024
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DONALD TRUMP & EVIL – A Post-Halloween / Election-Eve Story

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4th Nov 2024
Almost forty years ago, I owned a small house in the Greenwich “backcountry” just a few miles from the Westchester County Airport. One morning, I was talking on the phone with a friend whom I would see later in the … Continue reading → The post DONALD TRUMP & EVIL – A...
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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

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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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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

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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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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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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

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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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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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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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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

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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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From the Mouths of Architects I'm not sure when it happened, but at some point I went from disliking interviews — preferring texts...
6th Mar 2023
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From the Mouths of Architects

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6th Mar 2023
I'm not sure when it happened, but at some point I went from disliking interviews — preferring texts written by architects, much of it in the vein of theory — to gravitating to them. Now I find myself opting to read interviews, be they online or in printed matter, over other...
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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Thanet Parkway (Thanet Parkway, Kent, UK) Thanet Parkway station opened on 31 July 2023, and promptly broke quite a few people’s brains. I can...
13th Aug 2025
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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Thanet Parkway (Thanet Parkway, Kent, UK)

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13th Aug 2025
Thanet Parkway station opened on 31 July 2023, and promptly broke quite a few people’s brains. I can remember my Twitter feed (as was) being awash with commentators deriding its appearance. Even now, a simple web search will quickly turn up adjectives like “ugly”, “hideous”,...
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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

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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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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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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

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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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Minoru Yamasaki: The Fragility of Architecture He designed two of the most famous landmarks of the late-20th-century. Why is he virtually unknown...
1st Jul 2024
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Minoru Yamasaki: The Fragility of Architecture

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1st Jul 2024
He designed two of the most famous landmarks of the late-20th-century. Why is he virtually unknown today?
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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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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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Field notes: Miami Update 5-Dec-2021: Read the updated version of these notes here. These field notes are a bit...
21st Apr 2021
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Field notes: Miami

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21st Apr 2021
Update 5-Dec-2021: Read the updated version of these notes here. These field notes are a bit different from previous cities I've explored, because unlike those, Miami is my home! So this post partially serves as a life update—I moved to Miami Beach from California a few months...
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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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Maps Without Words; Words Without Maps During the early period of my self-isolation in Arizona, USA, Guerrilla Cartography put out a call...
2nd Dec 2020
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Maps Without Words; Words Without Maps

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2nd Dec 2020
During the early period of my self-isolation in Arizona, USA, Guerrilla Cartography put out a call for maps that represented “Community,” to be completed in 24 hours. Along with the call for maps, GC offered and organized free online talks, which included various and interesting...
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A Small Cabin-Like Structure That Can Be Compressed When Not In Use Architects Juan Ruiz and Amelia Tapia have shared some photos of their latest design, a small...
8th Mar 2023
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A Small Cabin-Like Structure That Can Be Compressed When Not In Use

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8th Mar 2023
Architects Juan Ruiz and Amelia Tapia have shared some photos of their latest design, a small cabin-like room that expands when needed.
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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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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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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?

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2nd Feb 2026
As the saying goes: If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
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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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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

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

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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Land by latitude and longitude, or, a pile of continents Bill Rankin’s graphs of world population by latitude and longitude popped into mind for no...
17th Aug 2016
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Land by latitude and longitude, or, a pile of continents

from Cartogrammar [alt+shift+b] in architecture

17th Aug 2016
Bill Rankin’s graphs of world population by latitude and longitude popped into mind for no particular reason the other day, followed by a silly-sounding question: “but, like, what about land area by latitude and longitude?” Silly because, duh, a chart of land area by latitude and...
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Places in Time I Like most human beings, I can be contradictory at times. One area where this manifests is...
4th Sep 2023
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Places in Time I

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4th Sep 2023
Like most human beings, I can be contradictory at times. One area where this manifests is architectural surveys: books that usually collect buildings of a certain typology, but also ones spanning a particular timeframe or through some other theme. I've written a few of them...
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Importance of Landscape in School Design Landscape plays a major role in the learning experience of a child. A school campus not only...
29th Aug 2023
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Importance of Landscape in School Design

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29th Aug 2023
Landscape plays a major role in the learning experience of a child. A school campus not only comprises of the buildings in a school,...
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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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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!

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25th Nov 2022
Together we make your home healthier, full of sunlight & abound with natural energy
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Part 1: The story so far of California Forever A new city has been proposed in California, and I’ve never been more captivated by a vision for the...
20th Feb 2024
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Part 1: The story so far of California Forever

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20th Feb 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. California Forever was founded by Jan Sramek in 2017 as a way to create...
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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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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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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

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22nd Jan 2023
Let's start 2023 with presenting one of my dearest projects.
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Forgotten Corners of the World: Heidi Linck’s Enigmatic Works Heidi Linck is a multimedia artist based in the Netherlands. Her work explores the poetic dimension...
19th Oct 2025
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Forgotten Corners of the World: Heidi Linck’s Enigmatic Works

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19th Oct 2025
Heidi Linck is a multimedia artist based in the Netherlands. Her work explores the poetic dimension of neglected spaces and their capacity to convey a sense of loss while opening up potential forms of imagination. The encounter between collective and individual memory is...
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Man Ray, Mathematical Objects (1934-36) The collection of 19th-century three-dimensional models of algebraic and differential equations at...
14th Jan 2024
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Man Ray, Mathematical Objects (1934-36)

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14th Jan 2024
The collection of 19th-century three-dimensional models of algebraic and differential equations at the Institut Henri Poincaré in Paris made a great impression on Surrealist artists. Allegedly, after Max Ernst brought these wood, metal, wire, and plaster forms to Man Ray’s...
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Job Opportunities at Benny Kuriakose and Associates in 2024 Every month, we receive a large number of applications for job positions and internships. Most of...
16th May 2024
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Job Opportunities at Benny Kuriakose and Associates in 2024

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16th May 2024
Every month, we receive a large number of applications for job positions and internships. Most of them sent the application three or more...
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Mass Timber Architecture (CLT) I. Structural, aesthetic, natural.
2nd Mar 2025
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Mass Timber Architecture (CLT) I.

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2nd Mar 2025
Structural, aesthetic, natural.
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Does Building More Housing Bankrupt Cities? The Numerate Case for Aesthetic Abundance
3 weeks ago
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Does Building More Housing Bankrupt Cities?

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3 weeks ago
The Numerate Case for Aesthetic Abundance
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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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Making shaded relief directly from DEMs projected in degrees? In a presentation I gave at GeoIgnite 2021, I was explaining the process of using QGIS to make...
1st May 2021
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Making shaded relief directly from DEMs projected in degrees?

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

1st May 2021
In a presentation I gave at GeoIgnite 2021, I was explaining the process of using QGIS to make shaded relief from DEMs, more or less as detailed in this post. There wasn’t time to explain the process of re-projection, so I rather boldly asserted that you don’t need to re-project...
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What’s Not Stated This newspaper clipping in one of the New York Public Library’s scrapbooks has no explanation, but...
1st Nov 2024
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What’s Not Stated

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1st Nov 2024
This newspaper clipping in one of the New York Public Library’s scrapbooks has no explanation, but I’m pretty sure I know what it’s about. The somewhat ominous caption “Park Avenue Tunnel Choked With the Debris” is probably describing the aftermath of the January 1902 crash...
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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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Transportation After the Age of Expansion The era of transportation expansion was a success. That’s exactly why it needs to end.
5th Jan 2026
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Transportation After the Age of Expansion

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5th Jan 2026
The era of transportation expansion was a success. That’s exactly why it needs to end.
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Misreading Milei: The American press can only see Argentina through US-colored glasses It's been frustrating to see the US coverage of Milei, Argentina's new president. They are deeply...
12th Dec 2023
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Misreading Milei: The American press can only see Argentina through US-colored glasses

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12th Dec 2023
It's been frustrating to see the US coverage of Milei, Argentina's new president. They are deeply misunderstanding (or misrepresenting?) what's going on. It seems the American press can only understand Argentine politics through the lens of the US, when really it's just a totally...
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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

from devonzuegel.com [alt+shift+b] in architecture

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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Want Some Bad Food and Poor Design to Go With Your Tesla Charge? Elon Musk’s attempt at an urban restaurant strives to be cool but fails utterly.
1st Apr 2026
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Want Some Bad Food and Poor Design to Go With Your Tesla Charge?

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1st Apr 2026
Elon Musk’s attempt at an urban restaurant strives to be cool but fails utterly.
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More firms are adopting building performance analysis, AIA finds The AIA has released its latest 2030 Commitment By the Numbers report. The initiative tracks the...
1st Oct 2026
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More firms are adopting building performance analysis, AIA finds

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1st Oct 2026
The AIA has released its latest 2030 Commitment By the Numbers report. The initiative tracks the architecture and design industry’s progress toward carbon-neutral buildings by 2030.  Based on performance data from 2025, the report found that 67% of whole-building projects...
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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

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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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every small city has that one dictator chic house I don’t know why, but every city, no matter how big, has some insanely stacked dictator-looking...
30th Jan 2023
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every small city has that one dictator chic house

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30th Jan 2023
I don’t know why, but every city, no matter how big, has some insanely stacked dictator-looking McMansion somewhere outside the city limits. If you sort your Zillow results as Price: High - Low, this house will pop up first. It costs something like $5,000,000. It is 10,000 square...
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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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The Reaction Area “Enigmatic chemical reactions” have broken out underground inside two Los Angeles-area landfills,...
20th Dec 2023
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The Reaction Area

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20th Dec 2023
“Enigmatic chemical reactions” have broken out underground inside two Los Angeles-area landfills, according to the L.A. Times. These “highly unusual reactions at Los Angeles County’s two largest landfills have raised serious questions about the region’s long-standing approach to...
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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?

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

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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In Search of Perfection: Plato’s Double Arrow (Rail Symbol 2, Nick Job for Network Rail, 2022) It takes some strange mixture of bravery, confidence, and the thickest of skins to take on the job...
14th Dec 2022
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In Search of Perfection: Plato’s Double Arrow (Rail Symbol 2, Nick Job for Network Rail, 2022)

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

14th Dec 2022
It takes some strange mixture of bravery, confidence, and the thickest of skins to take on the job of redesigning a national icon. Once again, the rail industry’s “double arrow”, the symbol that has come completely to mean “railway” in Britain, has been given a facelift. Previous...
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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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Shelter: An Atlas Food, water, shelter. The tripartite of basic needs. Without these no living thing can survive. Not...
3rd Jan 2023
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Shelter: An Atlas

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3rd Jan 2023
Food, water, shelter. The tripartite of basic needs. Without these no living thing can survive. Not a spider, not a badger, not a tree, not a human. The first two — food and water — are obvious; without them, sustenance is impossible. The food we eat gives us energy through...
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QGIS 3 and Vector map tiles If you’ve ever tried printing a map from the Open Street Map tile service (available in QGIS through...
10th Jan 2021
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QGIS 3 and Vector map tiles

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

10th Jan 2021
If you’ve ever tried printing a map from the Open Street Map tile service (available in QGIS through QuickMapServices plugin) you’ve experienced the annoyance of having all your labels come out tiny. In other words, you see this on the screen… But then you get this out of your...
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The Tuba Mindset What Sam Quinones taught me about addiction, community, and the slow work of building strong towns.
1st Jun 2026
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The Tuba Mindset

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1st Jun 2026
What Sam Quinones taught me about addiction, community, and the slow work of building strong towns.
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We are Survivors. We are Stardust. STARLIGHT AND AN AEROSPACE ENGINEER This map wouldn’t exist without an igniting spark from an...
25th Aug 2020
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We are Survivors. We are Stardust.

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

25th Aug 2020
STARLIGHT AND AN AEROSPACE ENGINEER This map wouldn’t exist without an igniting spark from an aerospace engineer. I was visiting with a friend (said engineer) when the theme for the Atlas in a Day Challenge was announced. Upon hearing the theme of Community, she shared that 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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High Speed at High Speed (Tianjin West station, China) In scale and speed of construction, Tianjin West seems almost impossible – especially when viewed...
4th Oct 2023
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High Speed at High Speed (Tianjin West station, China)

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4th Oct 2023
In scale and speed of construction, Tianjin West seems almost impossible – especially when viewed from Britain. It is, therefore, the perfect embodiment of China’s high speed rail network, on which the station can be found. It is also, I am sorry to say, the antithesis of the...
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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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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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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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This Blog in 2023 One year ago, in the first post of 2022, I shifted this blog from (almost) daily posts about...
2nd Jan 2023
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This Blog in 2023

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2nd Jan 2023
One year ago, in the first post of 2022, I shifted this blog from (almost) daily posts about architecture books to just once a week, changing the name of the blog to reflect that. In the fifth of five bullet points reasoning why that was happening, I wrote: "I'm planning on...
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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

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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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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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Light, Empathy, and Silence: The Architecture of Marina Tabassum A Q&A with the celebrated Bangladeshi designer.
3rd Jun 2024
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Light, Empathy, and Silence: The Architecture of Marina Tabassum

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3rd Jun 2024
A Q&A with the celebrated Bangladeshi designer.
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A new chapter: seven creatively converted homes It takes an especially skilled eye to see the potential of somewhere to call home in a space not...
21st Nov 2024
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A new chapter: seven creatively converted homes

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21st Nov 2024
It takes an especially skilled eye to see the potential of somewhere to call home in a space not designed with that in mind. But in this country, with its architectural tapestry of period buildings and premium on space, we have become adept at repackaging […]
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Edge Esmeralda: A recap of June's popup village This summer, I co-organized a month-long 1,300-person "popup village" in Healdsburg, CA called Edge...
26th Aug 2024
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Edge Esmeralda: A recap of June's popup village

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26th Aug 2024
This summer, I co-organized a month-long 1,300-person "popup village" in Healdsburg, CA called Edge Esmeralda. This gathering was incredibly fun and rewarding, and it was also a huge accelerant to the creation of the permanent village we are building, Esmeralda. Edge Esmeralda...
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Design explained using pie charts again Design is hard. If only the process could be explained using simple pie charts again. Unfortunately,...
1st Apr 2024
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Design explained using pie charts again

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1st Apr 2024
Design is hard. If only the process could be explained using simple pie charts again. Unfortunately, this still isn’t that: More Design in charts – HERE, and HERE and HERE and HERE
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The Color And Material Palette Of This New Home Allows It To Blend Into The Desert Setting Multidisciplinary creative studio mxtad has designed a home in Mexico, with a natural and earthy...
3rd Apr 2023
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The Color And Material Palette Of This New Home Allows It To Blend Into The Desert Setting

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3rd Apr 2023
Multidisciplinary creative studio mxtad has designed a home in Mexico, with a natural and earthy color palette that complements its surroundings. The home, designed for an architect and graphic designer, was built on a site with an irregular shape, however, from the street, it...
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Solarchitect's book recommendations I. “If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.” - Cicero
14th Aug 2022
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Solarchitect's book recommendations I.

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14th Aug 2022
“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.” - Cicero
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Reading List 08/02/2025 European multifamily construction, a robot lamp, China’s self-driving car test, a “mini Moravec's...
2nd Aug 2025
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Reading List 08/02/2025

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

2nd Aug 2025
European multifamily construction, a robot lamp, China’s self-driving car test, a “mini Moravec's paradox”, and more.
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R.I.P. W.C. (1930s Southern Railway toilets, Havant station, Hampshire, UK) So farewell then, Havant station’s 1930s railway toilets. It is doubtful whether many passengers...
15th Feb 2023
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R.I.P. W.C. (1930s Southern Railway toilets, Havant station, Hampshire, UK)

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15th Feb 2023
So farewell then, Havant station’s 1930s railway toilets. It is doubtful whether many passengers will mourn their loss, but they are another piece of railway heritage that has slipped beyond grasp. If you care about the story of our railways, expressed through their built...
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Botany as an Artistic Practice: Anna Atkins’ Blueprints Anna Atkins (1799-1871) was a British botanist and photographer. She was in direct contact with...
17th Dec 2021
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Botany as an Artistic Practice: Anna Atkins’ Blueprints

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17th Dec 2021
Anna Atkins (1799-1871) was a British botanist and photographer. She was in direct contact with William Henry Fox Talbot, (the inventor of calotype, an early photographic technique), and with Sir John Frederick William Herschel, (the inventor of the cyanotype, a technique that...
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Howdy everyone! Some exciting news: I’m doing a stint at The Nation this month writing... Liberating Our Homes From the Real Estate–Industrial Complex Howdy everyone! Some exciting news: I’m...
13th Mar 2023
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Howdy everyone! Some exciting news: I’m doing a stint at The Nation this month writing biweekly…

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13th Mar 2023
Liberating Our Homes From the Real Estate–Industrial Complex Howdy everyone! Some exciting news: I’m doing a stint at The Nation this month writing biweekly design columns. In this first one, I’ve done my best to expand on an earlier McMansion Hell post in order to answer the...
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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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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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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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Before & After – A 1970s Home Received A Contemporary Renovation Floisand Studio Architects has shared photos of a contemporary renovation project they did for a...
6th Nov 2023
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Before & After – A 1970s Home Received A Contemporary Renovation

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6th Nov 2023
Floisand Studio Architects has shared photos of a contemporary renovation project they did for a home in Seattle, Washington. The original 1970s Seattle rambler had a typical boxy layout, while the exterior featured brick with blue and red accents. The new exterior includes new...
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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

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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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What’s good for General Motors is good for America On March 15 I tweeted, “If America hadn’t decided to create a new national transportation system...
16th Mar 2023
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What’s good for General Motors is good for America

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16th Mar 2023
On March 15 I tweeted, “If America hadn’t decided to create a new national transportation system based on individuals in private cars driving everywhere for everything, climate change would be a very different—and smaller—problem than it is.” I posted the … Continue reading → The...
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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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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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Does construction ever get cheaper? I've mentioned a few times that I generally prefer looking at construction progress through the lens...
1st Feb 2023
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Does construction ever get cheaper?

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

1st Feb 2023
I've mentioned a few times that I generally prefer looking at construction progress through the lens of cost indexes rather than productivity indexes. Whereas productivity indexes try to track changes in the amount of construction we get for a given amount of labor (for labor...
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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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A Sculptural Limestone Facade Was Designed For This Boutique Retail Store Photography by doublespace photography Architecture studio PARTISANS has shared photos of a boutique...
1st Jul 2024
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A Sculptural Limestone Facade Was Designed For This Boutique Retail Store

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1st Jul 2024
Photography by doublespace photography Architecture studio PARTISANS has shared photos of a boutique they completed that’s owned and operated by Royal de Versailles Jewellers in Toronto, Canada, and features a sculptural stone facade. Photography by doublespace photography...
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6 Reasons Why Today’s Architecture Is Unsustainable The so-called sustainable buildings of today often fall short of genuine sustainability. Instead,...
5th Oct 2023
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6 Reasons Why Today’s Architecture Is Unsustainable

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5th Oct 2023
The so-called sustainable buildings of today often fall short of genuine sustainability. Instead, the concept is reduced to mere clichés and greenwashing. In this article, we delve deeper into the underlying factors concealed behind the sometimes eco-friendly exteriors of...
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Stage Design as a Narrative Device: Norman Bel Geddes’ Stage Set for The Divine Comedy (1921) American stage and industrial designer, director and producer Norman Bel Geddes (1893-1958) worked...
6th Mar 2022
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Stage Design as a Narrative Device: Norman Bel Geddes’ Stage Set for The Divine Comedy (1921)

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6th Mar 2022
American stage and industrial designer, director and producer Norman Bel Geddes (1893-1958) worked on a theatrical staging of Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy to be performed in Madison Square Garden in 1921 on the sexcentenary of Dante’s death. Geddes planned the...
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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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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

from devonzuegel.com [alt+shift+b] in architecture

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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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

from devonzuegel.com [alt+shift+b] in architecture

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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10 must-see architecture & design events to see this May in NYC, Venice, Montreal, Bilbao,... If you're in search of exciting architecture and design events to add to your calendar this May,...
1st May 2026
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10 must-see architecture & design events to see this May in NYC, Venice, Montreal, Bilbao, Melbourne, and Weil am Rhein

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1st May 2026
If you're in search of exciting architecture and design events to add to your calendar this May, check out our curated selection of exhibitions, festivals, and conferences taking place across the U.S. and abroad. From the roster of ongoing and upcoming events listed on Bustler,...
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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

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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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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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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

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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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Conceiving the Plan Conceiving the Plan: Nuance and Intimacy in Civic Space Edited by Yael Hameiri Sainsaux Skira,...
5th Dec 2022
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Conceiving the Plan

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5th Dec 2022
Conceiving the Plan: Nuance and Intimacy in Civic Space Edited by Yael Hameiri Sainsaux Skira, August 2022 Hardcover | 12-1/4 x 12-1/4 inches | 240 pages | 170 illustrations | English | ISBN: 9788857246543 | $45.00 PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION: In Honor of Diane Lewis...
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This Small Apartment Has A Yoga Wall And A Coffee Bar LITTLEMORE INTERIOR DESIGN has shared photos of a small 380-square-foot (35 sqm) apartment in Hong...
8th May 2023
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This Small Apartment Has A Yoga Wall And A Coffee Bar

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8th May 2023
LITTLEMORE INTERIOR DESIGN has shared photos of a small 380-square-foot (35 sqm) apartment in Hong Kong, that includes both a custom yoga wall and a coffee bar.
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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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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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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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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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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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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

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

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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Some Good News To Start The Year From Ars Technica, “40% of US electricity is now emissions-free” by John Timmer has a pretty...
1st Jan 2024
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Some Good News To Start The Year

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

1st Jan 2024
From Ars Technica, “40% of US electricity is now emissions-free” by John Timmer has a pretty self-explanatory headline. The short version: wind and solar have advanced quickly because of decreases in their cost, coal use has dropped, and there’s more storage coming on line 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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A Boomerang-Shaped Home with an Art Studio and Lake Views This lakefront home was designed to do three things well. Frame views of Mt. Rainier and Lake...
27th Jan 2026
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A Boomerang-Shaped Home with an Art Studio and Lake Views

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27th Jan 2026
This lakefront home was designed to do three things well. Frame views of Mt. Rainier and Lake Washington. Create natural moments of connection between family and friends. And make space for art as part of daily life. DeForest Architects responded with a boomerang-shaped plan that...
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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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How Parking Day Brought This Louisiana City Back to Life Here’s how Lafayette, Louisiana, went from a dying downtown to #6 in the country for outdoor dining.
3rd Sep 2025
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How Parking Day Brought This Louisiana City Back to Life

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3rd Sep 2025
Here’s how Lafayette, Louisiana, went from a dying downtown to #6 in the country for outdoor dining.
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