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September 14, 2009 – 11:48 pm

dialogue: finance, context, scale, and intervention

In a recent back and forth between myself (Stephen) and Rory Hyde in the comments of On Finance, Rory noted:
To zoom out even further, are we just talking about ‘context’? To understand the context in architecture normally means literally to understand the site context - the two terms are used interchangeably - but as all [...]

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July 7, 2009 – 1:20 am

my dreams, squashed

If you folks haven’t already seen it, I can’t recommend this article on Will Allen, founder of Growing Power and a ’street farmer’ in Milwaukee, highly enough.  I’m not even going to pull a quote from it - just go read the whole thing.  Given a choice between having the career of Rem Koolhaas, or [...]

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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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