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October 13, 2011 – 6:00 pm

on blogging architecture

Geoff Manaugh contributes a series to Arbitare that looks at the history, equipment, content, audience, and future of architecture blogging.  Being “someone who has founded his entire present career through blogging”, Geoff obviously both brings serious qualifications and an innate (and admitted) bias to the topic; the resulting personal perspective of the series only serves […]

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November 12, 2010 – 6:00 am

blueprint’s oddly misdirected second salvo

Not content with Tim Abrahams’ misdirected broadside against architecture blogs last spring — which badly missed its target by calling out the explicitly curatorial Things Magazine for failing the project of architecture criticism — Blueprint has now printed a similarly misdirected second salvo against various prominent architecture bloggers, again accusing them of not being sufficiently […]

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September 1, 2009 – 11:59 am

so long, where

Sorry to see Where reach its end, both because Brendan Crain is a fantastic blogger and because I think the group-blog format is one with a lot of potential, particularly to stir positive and useful debate.  Its hard to believe that Where is only two-and-half years old.  Fortunately Mario Ballestros is still blogging at Mañanarama […]

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June 9, 2009 – 1:26 pm

recent reading

1. A post on Human Transit points out the “old habits of urbanist thought” that were built into the structure of SimCity. Would be interesting to not only expose the fallacious assumptions embedded in the game, but to ruminate on the ways in which the game, being a particularly late-arriving artifact of modernist urbanism, is […]

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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 […]

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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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