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what is architectural history anyway?
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Post date:
November 16, 2025
Author:
Graham McKay
AESTHETICS
“Hello-o! The tree is not trying to be beautiful.”
1970s French Furniture Design
A Field of Towers
Absence of Criminal Intent
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CAREERS
Career Case Study #10: Yo Shimada
Career Case Study #11: Kunio Maekawa (前川 國男)
Career Case Study #12: Antonin Raymond
Career Case Study #13: John Cyril Hawes
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COMMENT
“Signature Moves”
3D Printing in History
A New Formalism
AI Architecture + Infrastructure in China (1/2)
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EDUCATION
Architects, the new tailors
Architecture & Engineering
Architecture Misfits #27: The Analog Student
Architecture Myths #29: The Problem
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FOOD
Calories/m3
Corner Stores
Food & Shelter
Food as Art
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GUIDES
MAD for Beijing
Misfits’ Guide to BRUSSELS
Misfits’ Guide to DUBAI
Misfits’ Guide to Hangzhou (杭州)
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HISTORY
1927: The Competition
1930: De-urbanism
1950–1965 Australia
1956
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MARKETING
“Fill’erup with Specialness!”
“In which brand shall we build?”
3D or not 3D?
Arkitektistan
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MEDIA
2013 Misfits’ Midsummernights’ Quiz
An Ordinary Beauty
Death of an Architect
Good on Paper
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MISFITS
Architecture Misfit #10: Colin Lucas
Architecture Misfit #11: Laurie Baker
Architecture Misfit #12: Nader Khalili
Architecture Misfit #13: Georg Muche
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MYTHS
Architecture Myths #10: Learning from Nature
Architecture Myths #11: Lowly Building Types
Architecture Myths #13: Field Space
Architecture Myths #14: The Difficult Whole
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NATURE
Arboreal Angst
Building Nature
Chinese Landscape Painting #1
Future Nature
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NEWS
12 Months
Architectural Intelligence
Misfits’ @ JESTER
TEN
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PERFORMANCE
“It’s a shed!”
1928: The Meeting
1928: The Types Study
1945
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REVIEWS
100 IDEAS
A Consistency of Contradictions
AD Louvre vs. LV Foundation
Against Architecture
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SCIENCE
AIA and AI
ALFA-X
Automatic Design
Designer–Initiated Design vs. AI/BIM–Initiated Design
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THEORY
“Everything is Architecture” [a rant]
0: SEPARATE
16 Types of Beauty
1: UNITE
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TYPOLOGIES
About Face!
Antisocial House
Building Bridges
Buildings of Questionable Purpose
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