TOPICS architecture as problem solving 1927: The Competition 1928: The Meeting 1928: The Types Study 3D Printers in History Carbon Offset Clarity & Consistency in Architecture Compliance Indexed Memory It’s Just Design Spiral Binding The Constructivists The Odd Angle What’s Already There architecture as the articulation of money or property or power Architectural Myths #12: The Daring Cantilever Showboating The Maximum Dwelling: RESPECT The Money Shot See more ... architecture's dubious relationship with wealth The Fabergé Egg architecture's troubled relationship with nature Aesthetic Efficiency Arboreal Angst Architecture Myths #10: Learning from Nature Architecture Myths #22: Biomimesis Architecture Myths #4: Gardens in the Sky Building Nature Moneymaking Machines #7: Absolute Towers Primitive Attributes Stealth Developments WE ♥ PLANTS Zoomorphic Architecture are there other ways of understanding architecture? Against Architecture Existential Architecture: Being There. 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Architecture Misfit #16: Douglas Haskell Architecture Misfit #17: Moisei Ginzburg Architecture Misfit #37: Luke Him Sau Architecture Misfit #39: Juliaan Lampens Architecture Misfit #40: Riken Yamamoto Architecture Misfit #41: Kiyoshi Seike Architecture Misfits #34: The Sole Practitioner Architecture Misfits #38: The Unknown Architect Career Case Study #9: Juliaan Lampens Claude Megson Honorary Architecture Misfit: Kiyonori Kikutake Honorary Architecture Misfits: Bernd and Hilla Becher Stock Market See more ... education 12 Months Notes on Scale energy demand management The Rebound Effect extensions and additions The Art Extension fame and fortune Career Case Study #12: Antonin Raymond Houses for Parents The 2’nd Misfits’ Trienniale: WEEK 3 food and shelter Calories/m3 Corner Stores Food & Shelter Food as Art Food Stuff Home Grown It’s Not Rocket Science #10: Integrated Sanitation and Nutrition Living Above Shops Retirement Plan Tall Food The Boarding House The Dacha The Microbial Home The Passivehaus Diet forgotten buildings HAPPY BIRTHDAY BURJ!! form and function Architecture in Motion, Again Architecture vs. Building Assorted Architecture Myths Dream Machine Learning From Flying Saucers Opera Houses The Architect as Ornament The Autopoiesis of Architecture: Vol.1 Chaps. 3.1~3.3 The Dark Side of the Villa Savoye form vs. performance New Radical Pragmatism New Ugly vs. New Cute Not the Sagrada Familia The Process Behind A Better Architecture Building STACEY #1: Site formalism in architecture A New Formalism Externalization Making Strange Non-Referential Architecture The Edge of Space The Formalist Canon functional differentiation Architecture Myths #33: Served and Servant Spaces generic functionality Architecture Myths #26: Flexibility getting back to basics It’s Not Rocket Science #11: Keeping the Water Out It’s Not Rocket Science #12: Getting Some Rays It’s Not Rocket Science #1: Thermal Mass It’s Not Rocket Science #2: Ventilation It’s Not Rocket Science #3: Yakhchal It’s Not Rocket Science #4: Humidity Control It’s Not Rocket Science #5: Night Sky Radiant Cooling It’s Not Rocket Science #6: The Stack Effect It’s Not Rocket Science #7: Evapo-transpiration It’s Not Rocket Science #8: Repetition It’s Not Rocket Science #9: Natural Ventilation Rocket Science heat exchange ventilation Split Systems high-density housing How Other Folks Live Sky Rectangle The Japanese Machiya high-rise living Learning From Tower Clusters History and its uses 1930: De-urbanism Architecture Myths #1: “Islamic Architecture” The 3 R’s The Fireplace The History of Forgetting The New Japanese House See more ... history in motion Formative Furniture Misfits’ Guide to SHANGHAI Second Time Around See more ... how is architectural media complicit? Architecture In The Emirates Architecture Myths #7: Purity of Form Can Architecture Heal Loss? Criticalifragilistic* Death of an Architect Five Architects to Watch Good on Paper Misleading Narratives Not All Photographs Lie Not All Photographs Lie (extra) Parable Prefab Pyramid Silly Season: Serpentines and Ladders Something In The Air The 1’st Misfits’ Trienalle The Dominant Narrative The Function of Architecture The Shape of Green The Things Architects Do #9: The Dating Game Triennale Hang-over how to best live with other people? Co-living Comfort Zone Fun!tionalism Home Improvement Living Together Misfits’ Guide to VIENNA Plan B Repeating Crevice Revisted See more ... Ideal City The Elevated Road image as architecture My Best Shots integrated performance Comfort Zone Part II Design Reformation Fit for Purpose The Core Wearable Architecture integrative design process Architecture Myths #31: Synthesis is it that important what something looks like? “Hello-o! The tree is not trying to be beautiful.” Aesthetic Effect #5: COMBINE Architecture Myths #5: A is to B as B is to A+B Designer Bookbinding Inspirations for Performance-Beauty Architecture New Architecture Found in Space! Pylon Competition Update Pylon Competition Winner Pylon Design Competition The Artless Plan The Microprocessor is Not Trying to Look Beautiful The Tree is Not Trying to be an Asset The Tree is Not Trying to Look Beautiful See more ... Is it worth reading Patrik Schumacher's The Autopoiesis of Architecture? Love You Long Time Operations, Structures and Processes Sordid Mechanics The Autopoiesis of Architecture: Vol.1 Chap. 2 – The Historical Emergence of Architecture (1/2) The Autopoiesis of Architecture: Vol. 1 – Preface, Introduction The Autopoiesis of Architecture: Vol.1 Chap. 2.3 – Avant-garde vs. Mainstream The Autopoiesis of Architecture: Vol.1 Chap. 3.6 – Styles The Autopoiesis of Architecture: Vol.1 Chap. 3.7 – Styles as Research Programmes The Autopoiesis of Architecture: Vol.1 Chaps. 3.3~3.4 The Autopoiesis of Architecture: Vol.1 Chapter 2.4 – Architectural Research The Autopoiesis of Architecture: Volume 1 Chapter 2.5 – The Necessity of Demarcation The Autopoiesis of Architecture: Vol.1 Chap.1: Architectural Theory The Autopoiesis of Architecture: Vol.1 Pages 237~240 The Autopoiesis of Architecure Vol. I The Chartreuse Ford The Massively Big Autopoiesis of Architecture Post The Mystery of Beauty The Red Igloo vs. The Autopoiesis of Architecture See more ... landscape as social beauty Infrastructure as Landscaping Learning From Sheds The Undecorated Shed Life on Earth The Art of Writing low-cost housing Architecture Misfit #10: Colin Lucas Architecture Misfit #11: Laurie Baker Architecture Misfit #12: Nader Khalili Architecture Misfit #23: André Lurçat Architecture Misfit #25: Ernst May Architecture Misfit #28: Harold Krantz Architecture Misfit #29: Fernand Pouillon Architecture Misfit #31: Kenji Hirose Architecture Misfit #32: Kazuhiko Namba Architecture Misfit #8: Hassan Fathy Architecture Misfits #7: Lacaton & Vassal Detective Story Lapatie House vs. Fifth Avenue Apple Store Learning From Shikumen Lo-Res Architecture Modern Vernacular More Poor Doors Naked Houses Slum Porn The Buildings Of YEMEN The Catalogue House The MUJI House The Shameless Skyscraper The Uncompleted Apartments The Universal Apartment See more ... machine for living Antarctic Architecture Kazuo Shinohara’s Houses Machine for Living Machines for Living Longer The Building is Not Trying To Look Beautiful #2: New Monte Rosa Hut See more ... malls and apartments Feasibility Study manipulating the architectural market The Asakura House marketing “In which brand shall we build?” Moneymaking Machines #6: King Toronto Reading The City The Emotional Layer The Terrace Megastructures What is a Megastructure? 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Monetising Architectural Fame Moneymaking Machines #1: 432 Park Avenue Moneymaking Machines #2: New York by Gehry Moneymaking Machines #3: 625 W57th Street Moneymaking Machines #4: 2 World Trade Center Moneymaking Machines #5: 100 East 53’rd Street New Theories for Old Truths Smoke & Mirrors The Big Brush The Demise of the Green Roof The Green Veneer The Historic Façade The Maximum Dwelling The Old Guard and The New Decency The Parametric Bottom Line The Things Architects Do #10: Pull Out All Stops The Things Architects Do #1: Compromise The Things Architects Do #3: SANAA The Things Architects Do #4: Concepts The Things Architects Do #5: Sell, Sell, Sell The Things Architects Do #6: Things They Regret The Things Architects Do #7: Brand Recognition YES MAN See more ... performance An Integrative Design Approach The Beauty I See in Al Hambra The Process Behind A Better Architecture Building STACEY #2: Energy & Carbon The Process Behind A Better Architecture Building STACEY #3: Daylighting & Views See more ... performance as an aesthetic 1945 ALFA-X Architecture Myths #9: Clean Lines Architecture Without Architects Customization Fast Tracking Formative Sections Machine for Living Many Misfit Motors More From Less #2: Diébédo Francis Kéré More From Less: The Principle More Space in Space Orientation Rubin Observatory SPACE-TIME & ARCHITECTURE The Beauty of the Higgs Boson The Car That Runs on Air The New Objectivity The Persistence of Beauty The Rise of Solar Cell Efficiency The Snail is Not Trying to Look Beautiful The Suitcase Is Not Trying to Look Beautiful The Television Tower is Not Trying to Look Beautiful The Water Tower is Not Trying to Look Beautiful Vehicles for Fame Venturi’s Vehicles See more ... performance beauty Chinese Simple Made The Gardened City See more ... 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Old Ideas for New Architectures Parallel History Post-Jencksian Architecture Quick Question The DARKER Side of Villa Savoye The Future Isn’t What It Used To Be The House That Came to Nothing The Inscrutable Apartment The Things Historians Do Time & Architecture: Part 2 Time & Architecture: Part I (NOW and WAS NOW) What Happens When Architects Die? WORLD ARCHITECTURE 1963 WORLD ARCHITECTURE 1963 Part 2 See more ... towards an architecture history fit for purpose Career Case Studies #11: Kunio Maekawa (前川 國男) urban farming Architecture Myths #28: Self-Sufficiency waste management Waste in China what do we want from architecture education? 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What does the architecture of neoliberalism look like? “Everything is Architecture” [a rant] A Consistency of Contradictions Architecture for Fascists, by Fascists Architecture Myths #23: Architecture Burden of Proof Community Mad For Mars Need To Know Neo-Futurism New Squeeze Spatial Practice Unimagining the Brick Благоустройство See more ... what if architectural aesthetics in general and beauty in particular were knowable after all and not the mysteries they're made out to be? 0: SEPARATE 16 Types of Beauty 1: UNITE 2: DETACH 3: ATTACH 4: EXTRACT 5: COMBINE 6: DISGUISE 7: MERGE 8: ALIENATE 9: ASSIMILATE A: DIFFERENTIATE B: INTEGRATE C: JUXTAPOSE D: CONFLATE E: DESIGNATE F: ASSOCIATE More Words Notes & Exceptions NOTSOF [p.1-11] The 2007 Draft: Derivation The 2007 Draft: Introduction The 2007 Draft: Preface The Architecture of Architectures The Architecture of Architectures (2007~) Words and Buildings See more ... what is architectural meaning anyway? 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