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October 16, 2009 – 1:30 pm

TED talks architecture

I’m loving the architecture series of TED talks - 20 minutes seems to be the perfect amount of time to get a handle on the key driving forces behind an architect’s practice. Also, the TED audience (which as far as I can tell is comprised mainly of brilliant non-architects) forces architects to talk about [...]

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September 21, 2009 – 3:38 pm

hadid in glasgow

Entschwindet und Vergeht penned a thoughtful and clever critique of Hadid’s Museum of Transport (in Glasgow) a bit over a month ago:
I’ve already discussed ZHA a number of times here, often in regards to unwittingly interesting things that they’ve done, such as the accidental brutalism of LF1 and the Wolfsburg museum (which I shall only [...]

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May 31, 2009 – 2:21 pm

on finance

I found this project by Andrea Brennen, which Rob highlighted here, incredibly refreshing.  Considering the vital role money plays in Getting Stuff Built, discussion of financing and its repercussions is absurdly rare in critical discourse on architecture and urbanism.  This is problematic - it’s not as if designs are hatched in a capital vacuum, funding [...]

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May 15, 2009 – 7:45 am

more on criticism and blogs

Additional responses to Abraham’s Blueprint screed:
1. Owen Hatherley at sit down man, you’re a bloody tragedy (who was named in said screed).
2. Infinite Thought gets at the heart of what is potentially the most valuable contribution of blogging (as a medium) to discourse:
“Abrahams criticises Owen and Fantastic Journal for discussing Ford, as if any discussion [...]

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May 12, 2009 – 4:02 pm

criticism and blogs

Tim Abrahams of Blueprint Magazine has popped off his twelve-gauge on architecture blogs, charging them with failing the project of architectural criticism through ‘nostalgia’ (that nasty bogeyman of progressivism), ‘consensus’, and disconnection from the ‘real world’.  Oddly, the first name he names is that of Things Magazine.  This is odd both (a) because Things is [...]

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