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Featurism
Contempt for History
Sky Rectangle
What is a Megastructure?
“In which brand shall we build?”
Keeping it Real
Split Systems
The Art Extension
Parallel History
Architecture Myths #33: Served and Servant Spaces
Chinese Simple Made
Career Case Studies #11: Kunio Maekawa (前川國男)
Fit for Purpose
Design: Free at Last!
Professional Development
Architecture Misfit #41: Kiyoshi Seike
Externalization
Mock 3D Printing
The Emotional Layer
The 2’nd Misfits’ Trienniale: WEEK 3
Going Outside
The 2’nd Misfits’ Trienniale: WEEK 2
Formative Furniture
Houses for Parents
Microhome
Career Case Study #12: Antonin Raymond
Tree Green
Lo-Res Architecture
Architecture Myths #32: Representation
Pasadena Heights v3.0
Non-Referential Architecture
An Architecture of Sharing
Customization
Formative Sections
Learning From Tower Clusters
12 Months
Architecture Myths #28: Self-Sufficiency
Performance Anxiety
Associative Design
Four Walls and a Roof
Mallville
Formative Houses
Misfits’ Guide to NANTONG
Perspective
Infinite Monkey Architecture
The Fabric of Space
Wearable Architecture
Learning From Shikumen
The Not-so-elevated Road
The Elevated Road
Death of an Architect
The Gentle Mashup
Art Vacuum
The Future of BIM as an Active Driver of Industry Change (Part 2)
The Future of BIM as an Active Driver of Industry Change
New Ugly vs. New Cute
The Demise of the Idea
Architecture Myths #31: Synthesis
Infrastructure as Landscaping
Shikumen (石库门)
New Squeeze
The Space Between Apartments
Automatic Design
Notes on Scale
Simple Construction
Moneymaking Machines #7: Absolute Towers
Playing it like it is
The 3 R’s
The Rebound Effect
Architecture Myths #30: Analysis
Another Level
Second Time Around
Expectations Exceeded
Aesthetic Efficiency
The Gardened City
Misfits’ Guide to SHANGHAI
Architecture Myths #29: The Problem
Mall World
ZHA@MAM, Shanghai
My Best Shots
Architecture & Engineering
Wind Tower
The Art of Writing
Reading The City
That First Idea
Handshake Hotel
The Handshake House
The Handshake Apartment
Retirement Plan
Food Stuff
Closed Systems
Architecture Myths #27: Individuality
Architecture Myths #26: Flexibility
Heroes & Villains
Waste in China
The Asakura House
Machine for Living Many
The Function of Architecture
Incremental Improvements
Plan Without Qualities
The Dispersed Apartment
Architecture Misfit #40: Riken Yamamoto
Deck Access
16 Types of Beauty
Moneymaking Machines #6: King Toronto
The Historic Façade
Orientation
More Words
The Department Store
The Dispersed House
HOME WORK
Words and Buildings
Design Reformation
Comfort Zone Part II
Comfort Zone
Notes & Exceptions
New Mews (2/2)
New Mews (1/2)
NOTSOF [p.1-11]
F: ASSOCIATE
The Terrace
3D Printers in History
The Rooftop
E: DESIGNATE
COLOURBLIND
Career Case Study #11: Juliaan Lampens
Architecture Misfit #39: Juliaan Lampens
D: CONFLATE
Antisocial House
Rubin Observatory
End of the Road
C: JUXTAPOSE
RAW
Habitat Compensation Island
Architecture Misfits #38: The Unknown Architect
B: INTEGRATE
TEN
Mission Statement
The Podium Building
A: DIFFERENTIATE
It’s Just Design
Property Supplement
Claude Megson
9: ASSIMILATE
Parable
Stock Market
What’s Already There
8: ALIENATE
Reconstructivism
The Active Band
The Uncompleted
7: MERGE
The Aftermath
Architecture In The Emirates
Compliance
6: DISGUISE
Going Up and Down
Detention
Pre-Carbon Copy
5: COMBINE
Spiral Binding
Carbon Offset
Motion Sickness
4: EXTRACT
The Factory
Confidence
ALFA-X
3: ATTACH
Architecture Misfit #37: Luke Him Sau
Mad For Mars
1965–1980 Japan
2: DETACH
How To Leave a Company
Misfits’ Guide to VIENNA
Space Merchants
1: UNITE
Arboreal Angst
Triennale Hang-over
The 1’st Misfits’ Trienalle
0: SEPARATE
Let’s Dance!
The Will of the Epoch (2/2)
The Oval
The Architecture of Architectures (2007~)
Architecture Misfit #36: Ricardo Bofill
The Will of the Epoch (1/2)
Architecture Myths #25: The Creative Spark
The 2007 Draft: Derivation
1950–1965 Australia
The Core
The Unsmart Home
The 2007 Draft: Preface
Vehicles for Fame
100 IDEAS
Parklife
The 2007 Draft: Introduction
The Artless Plan
Something In The Air
Aesthetic Fitness
The Architecture of Architectures
The Nature of Things
Architecture Misfit #35: Edwin Lutyens
Divide & Conquer
Media Studies
Bauhaus Fatigue
The Notebooks of Ludwig Kurz
The Cycle of Cold
The Odd Angle
Architecture of Innocence
Neo-Futurism
School of Life
Streets In The Sky
Art As Houses
The Edge of Space
Clever Solutions
Concept Conflict
Existential Anxieties
List of Topics
Absence of Criminal Intent
The Boarding House
Building Nature
Architecture Misfits #34: The Sole Practitioner
Final Reductions!
The Architect as Ornament
The Universal Apartment
The Open Bathroom
Indexed Memory
Living as Art
The Uncompleted Apartments
Architecture Misfit #33: Josef Frank
Living on top of one another
Houses as Art
AD Louvre vs. LV Foundation
The Autopoiesis of Architecure Vol. I
Architecture Misfit #32: Kazuhiko Namba
An Ordinary Beauty
Misfits’ Guide to MUNICH
ART IN SPACE!
The MUJI House
The Catalogue House
The Piano Equivalent
Misfits’ Guide to BRUSSELS
Grading Criteria
The Grand Tour
Tall Food
The Inflexible House
The Atomium
Misfits’ @ JESTER
The Hexagon [a eulogy]
Good in theory?
Living Above Shops
Community
Spatial Practice
“Everything is Architecture” [a rant]
The Formalist Canon
Career Case Study #10: Yo Shimada
The Old Guard and The New Decency
The Spaces Between Buildings
History Repeating #1: Tragedy
Criticalifragilistic*
Architecture Misfit #31: Kenji Hirose
Teaching & Learning
Models of Instruction
Caravanserai
Career Case Study #9: José Oubrerie
The History of Forgetting
A Consistency of Contradictions
Naked Houses
A New Formalism
The Landscraper
The Vertical City
Urban Carpet vs. Mat City
Making Strange
Unimagining the Brick
The Extruded Mat Building
Misfits’ Guide to HONG KONG
Madame Butterfly
The Sheltering Sky
The New Inhumanism
Architecture Misfit #30: Robert Mallet-Stevens
Architecture Myths #24: Beauty vs. Everything Else
Misfits’ Guide to PARIS
The Landscape Within
Modern Vernacular
Meta-Aesthetics
Property, Time & Architecture
Detective Story
The Piano and the Double-Sided Apartment
Clarity & Consistency in Architecture
Architecture Misfit #29: Fernand Pouillon
The Massively Big Autopoiesis of Architecture Post
Благоустройство
Twelve Books on Architecture
Plan B
The Fireplace
US 7,540,120
The Domino’s House
Career Case Study #8: Gio Ponti
Talking Shop
Fast Tracking
The Shape of Green
Misleading Narratives
Architecture Misfit #28: Harold Krantz
Repeating Crevice Revisted
Architecture Misfits #27: The Analog Student
Architecture Myths #23: Architecture
The Expansible Home
Misfits’ Guide to PERTH
The Inscrutable Apartment
Burden of Proof
Need To Know
Modest Megastructures
Learning Curve
Ignorance is Bliss
Buildings That Lean
Different Strokes
Brands as Architectural Legacy
Keeping it Real
Architcture Misfits #26: Asnago Vender
HIGH-RISE
Architecture Misfit #25: Ernst May
Misfits’ Guide to MILAN
Living the Dream
Architecture Misfits #24: Rural Studio
Waste in Venice
Downmarketly Mobile
Misfits’ Guide to VENICE
Pilotis
Lobby Living
1930: De-urbanism
Critical Spatiality
Architecture Misfit #23: André Lurçat
Career Case Study #7: Serge Chermayeff
Misfits’ Guide to DUBAI
Generic Functionality
Skin Deep
Machines for Living Longer
Waterworld
Machine for Living
Decorative CMU
Architecture Misfits #22: H Arquitectes
The Dacha
Houses or Hotels
The Free Facade
Architecture Misfit #21: Tōgō Murano
Career Case Study #6: Ivan Illich Leonidov
Pietro Lingeri and the New Realism
Imagery as Architecture
Home Improvement
The 1+1/2 Floor Apartment
The Mat Building
The Key Worker and the Tenure Divide
The Parametric Bottom Line
The Passivehaus Diet
Co-living
Living Together
Architecture Misfit #20: Edward T. Potter
Misfits’ Guide to NEW YORK
After Architecture
The Sheep Shed
Moneymaking Machines #5: 100 East 53’rd Street
Architectural Assimilation
Architecture Reductions
Conceptual Continuity
Architecture Myths #22: Biomimesis
The Things Architects Do #10: Pull Out All Stops
Career Case Study #5: Richard Leplastrier
Advance of the Sheds
Architecture Misfit #19: Illarion Ivanov-Schitz
The New Japanese House
Future Nature
Architecture Myths #21: Total Design
Honorary Architecture Misfits: Bernd and Hilla Becher
The Lighthouse is Not Trying to be Beautiful
The Shameless Skyscraper
Misfits’ Guide to MOSCOW
Performance Beauty
Career Case Study #4: Sir Roy Grounds
Dysfunctionalism^2
Architecture Myths #20: The Villa Savoye
The Homestead Myth
The Forgotten Function
Architecture Misfit #18: Ignazio Gardella
Architecture Misfit #17: Moisei Ginzburg
Architecture Myths #19: Popular Culture
Architecture Misfit #16: Douglas Haskell
Building Bridges
1928: The Meeting
Moneymaking Machines #4: 2 World Trade Center
The Japanese Machiya
Rocket Science
Misfits’ 2015 Midsummernights’ Quiz
The Water Tower is Not Trying to Look Beautiful
How Other Folks Live
Sheds Without Shame
1928: The Types Study
Vertical Farmwash
1927: The Competition
The Things Architects Do #9: The Dating Game
The Constructivists
The Things Architect Do #8: Cherry Blossoms
It’s Not Rocket Science #12: Getting Some Rays
Architecture Myths #18: The Free Plan
Inflationary Tendencies
Honorary Architecture Misfit: Kiyonori Kikutake
Architecture Myths #17: Genius Loci
Career Case Study #3: Glen Howard Small
Too Clever for Words
The Well-Serviced Apartment
The building is not trying to be a mountain
More Poor Doors
Fun!tionalism
Moneymaking Machines #3: 625 W57th Street
Existential Architecture: Being There.
Old Ideas for New Architectures
It’s Not Rocket Science #11: Keeping the Water Out
Moneymaking Machines #2: New York by Gehry
The Things Architects Do #8: Themes
dysfunctionalism
Architecture Misfit #15: Knud Peter Harboe
The Big Brush
Smoke & Mirrors
Architecture Myths #16: Memes
Architecture Myths #15: Intellectual vs. Romantic
Career Case Study #2: Norman Jaffe
Architecture Myths #14: The Difficult Whole
The Mystery of Beauty
Slum Porn
It’s Not Rocket Science #10: Integrated Sanitation and Nutrition
Home Grown
Calories/m3
The Orangery
Moneymaking Machines #1: 432 Park Avenue
The Great Filter
He
Food as Art
Food & Shelter
The Microbial Home
Dubai Deconstruction Update
Waste . . . zzzzt . . . Energy.
The Internet of Things
The Buildings Of YEMEN
The Snail is Not Trying to Look Beautiful
Kazuo Shinohara’s Houses
Architecture for Fascists, by Fascists
The Real Function of Form
Opera Houses
Iraqi Parliament Building Competition
Designer Bookbinding
The Chartreuse Ford
Game Changers
Love You Long Time
Sordid Mechanics
New Radical Pragmatism
Corner Stores
Do-gooders
Political Correctness and Architecture
Not the Sagrada Familia
The Things Architects Do #7: Brand Recognition
Silent City vs. Hello Kitty
BAD FORM
1945
Architecture Misfit #14: Eladio Dieste
Architecture Myths #13: Field Space
The Autopoiesis of Architecture: Vol.1 Chap. 3.7 – Styles as Research Programmes
SHELTER
Showboating
Is Aesthetics Sustainable?
Guilty Pleasures
It’s Not Rocket Science #9: Natural Ventilation
Architectural Myths #12: The Daring Cantilever
Post-Jencksian Architecture
The One Wall House
The Rules of Showbiz
Spiritual Beauty
Against Architecture
Gone, Mostly Forgotten
Architecture Misfit #13: Georg Muche
Lapatie House vs. Fifth Avenue Apple Store
The Autopoiesis of Architecture: Vol.1 Chap. 3.6 – Styles
Zoomorphic Architecture
The Undecorated Shed
Architecture Myths #11: Lowly Building Types
Architecture Myths #10: Learning from Nature
Unsung Hero: Yoshikatsu Tsuboi
Architecture Misfit #12: Nader Khalili
Stealth Developments
The Building is Not Trying To Look Beautiful #2: New Monte Rosa Hut
The Things Architects Do #6: Things They Regret
Green Computing and the Smart Shed
Good on Paper
Architecture Misfit #11: Laurie Baker
Architecture Misfit #10: Colin Lucas
Architecture Myths #9: Clean Lines
The Maximum Dwelling: RESPECT
SAVE THE WORLD!
It’s Not Rocket Science #8: Repetition
Misfits’ Hit List
Architectistan
The Things Architects Do #5: Sell, Sell, Sell
The Suitcase Is Not Trying to Look Beautiful
The Maximum Dwelling
Architecture Without Architects
Silly Season: Serpentines and Ladders
History Scrapheap
Not these sounds (again) !
2013 Misfits’ Midsummernights’ Quiz
The Autopoiesis of Architecture: Vol.1 Pages 237~240
Architecture Misfit #9: Karel Teige
Architecture Myths #8: Convenience
The Persistence of Beauty
Isamu Noguchi: Aesthetic Efficiency
Buildings of Questionable Purpose
The Rise of Solar Cell Efficiency
The Demise of the Green Roof
More From Less #2: Diébédo Francis Kéré
More From Less: The Principle
The Autopoiesis of Architecture: Vol.1 Chaps. 3.3~3.4
Aesthetic Effect #5: COMBINE
Architecture Misfit #8: Hassan Fathy
Architecture Myths #7: Purity of Form
Can Architecture Heal Loss?
COR-TEN® Steel
The Tree is Not Trying to be an Asset
Cultural Kowtow
The Dominant Narrative
Time & Architecture: Part 2
The Autopoiesis of Architecture: Vol.1 Chaps. 3.1~3.3
Architecture Myths #6: Maximising Views
The Red Igloo vs. The Autopoiesis of Architecture
Prefab Pyramid
The Antikythera Mechanism
The Microhouse
Operations, Structures and Processes
How Architecture Works
Cold Logic vs. Warm Logic
The Car That Runs on Air
The Microflat
Architecture Myths #5: A is to B as B is to A+B
WE ♥ PLANTS
The Venus Project
It’s Not Rocket Science #7: Evapo-transpiration
Architecture in Motion, Again
The Things Architects Do #4: Reuse, Recycle, Reprise
It’s Not Rocket Science #6: The Stack Effect
It’s Not Rocket Science #5: Night Sky Radiant Cooling
Architecture Myths #4: Gardens in the Sky
It’s Not Rocket Science #4: Humidity Control
It’s Not Rocket Science #3: Yakhchal
It’s Not Rocket Science #2: Ventilation
Architecture Misfits #7: Lacaton & Vassal
The Things Architects Do #3: SANAA
Five Architects to Watch
Glass and Other Houses
The Autopoiesis of Architecture: Volume 1 Chapter 2.5 – The Necessity of Demarcation
The KISS Principle
The Autopoiesis of Architecture: Vol.1 Chapter 2.4 – Architectural Research
WORLD ARCHITECTURE 1963 Part 2
WORLD ARCHITECTURE 1963
More Space in Space
Architecture vs. Building
The Fabergé Egg
The Things Historians Do
The Autopoiesis of Architecture: Vol.1 Chap. 2.3 – Avant-garde vs. Mainstream
It’s Not Rocket Science #1: Thermal Mass
Celebrity Shoot-out
Disambiguation: ARM Architecture
The Things Architects Do #4: Concepts
Venturi’s Vehicles
The Autopoiesis of Architecture: Vol.1 Chap. 2 – The Historical Emergence of Architecture (1/2)
The Television Tower is Not Trying to Look Beautiful
The New Objectivity
The Autopoiesis of Architecture: Vol.1 Chap.1: Architectural Theory
Antarctic Architecture
Learning From Flying Saucers
The Green Veneer
Retrofitting Architectural Concepts
The Autopoiesis of Architecture: Vol. 1 – Preface, Introduction
Misfit Motors
Fact, Opinion, Bollocks
What Happens When Architects Die?
“Fill’erup with Specialness!”
Quick Question
The Future Isn’t What It Used To Be
Primitive Attributes
Architecture Misfit #6: George Fred Keck
Career Case Study #1: Frederick Kiesler
Architecture Myths #3: Futurist Early Deaths
Architecture Misfits #5: The Futurists
New Theories for Old Truths
Moneti$ing Architectural Fame (In 6 Easy Diagrams!)
Monetising Architectural Fame
The Shed is Not Trying to Look Beautiful #1
Awkward Moments
“Hello-o! The tree is not trying to be beautiful.”
Not All Photographs Lie (extra)
Not All Photographs Lie
The Money Shot
Misfits’ All-Time Top 10 Hits
Misfits’ Midsummernights’ Quiz
The Beauty of the Higgs Boson
Time & Architecture: Part I (NOW and WAS NOW)
SPACE-TIME & ARCHITECTURE
Architecture Misfit #4: Adolfo Natalini
Architecture Misfit #3: Eileen Gray
News from Overseas
Architecture Misfit #2: Irving John Gill
“It’s a shed!”
Misfits’ “English for Architects” Awards
The House That Came to Nothing
Architectural Dogma
The New Architecture of Austerity
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BURJ!!
Architecture Myths #2: The Artist
Structural Engineering as Art?
Assorted Architecture Myths
An Integrative Design Approach
Pylon Competition Winner
Prefab Parametric!
Misfit Table Quiz
Pylon Competition Update
The DARKER Side of Villa Savoye
The Things Architects Do #2: Ornament
The Process Behind A Better Architecture Building STACEY #3: Daylighting & Views
Pylon Design Competition
Culture, History, etc. and BUILDINGS (1)
Three Nasty Trends In Architecture
Dream Machine
The Beauty I See in Al Hambra
Architecture Misfit #1: Hannes Meyer
The Twisted Education of Architects
YES MAN
The Process Behind A Better Architecture Building STACEY #2: Energy & Carbon
Markitecture
Architects, the new tailors
The Dark Side of the Villa Savoye
The Red Igloo
The Process Behind A Better Architecture Building STACEY #1: Site
Where Architecture Went Wrong
What’s the point of Architecture? – Part 2
What’s the point of Architecture? – Part 1
Architecture Myths #1: “Islamic Architecture”
The Things Architects Do #1: Compromise
The Microprocessor is Not Trying to Look Beautiful
Inspirations for Performance-Beauty Architecture
New Architecture Found in Space!
The Tree is Not Trying to Look Beautiful

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