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architecture as problem solving

  • 1927: The Competition
  • 1928: The Meeting
  • 1928: The Types Study
  • 3D Printing in History
  • Carbon Offset
  • Career Case Study #13: John Cyril Hawes
  • Clarity & Consistency in Architecture
  • Compliance
  • How Will The Metaverse Be Designed?
  • Indexed Memory
  • It’s Just Design
  • Making the Problem Go Away
  • 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
  • Career Case Study #12: Albert Speer
  • Showboating
  • The Maximum Dwelling: RESPECT
  • The Money Shot
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    architecture's dubious relationship with wealth

  • Architects of their own demise
  • 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.
  • Spiritual Beauty
  • The Nature of Things

    • creativity

  • AIA and AI
  • Authenticity
  • I is for IMPROVE
  • The Demise of the Idea

    • decline of the social contract in architecture

  • Architecture Misfit #36: Ricardo Bofill
  • Expectations Exceeded
  • Heroes & Villains
  • HIGH-RISE
  • The Things Architects Do #8: Themes
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    does one have to be an unknown architect to be an architecture misfit?

  • 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 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
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    Dubai

  • Hacking The City

    • dysfunctionalism

  • Disobedience vs. Resourcefulness

    • education

  • 12 Months
  • Levels of Engagement: Part 2
  • Notes on Scale

    • energy demand management

  • The Rebound Effect

    • extensions and additions

  • The Art Extension

    • fake futures

  • The Stepped Terrace

    • fake history

  • Revisionist History
  • The Wrong Side of History

    • fame and fortune

  • A Career in Architecture
  • Career Case Study #12: Antonin Raymond
  • Framing
  • Houses for Parents
  • The 2’nd Misfits’ Trienniale: WEEK 3

    • food and architectural taste

  • The Chinese Kitchen

    • 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
  • Houses With More Than One Staircase

    • 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

    • gio ponti

  • The Art of Too Much

    • good inventions

  • Fast Food

    • heat exchange ventilation

  • Split Systems

    • high-density housing

  • Artificial Land
  • How Other Folks Live
  • Sky Rectangle
  • The Japanese Machiya

    • high-rise living

  • Learning From Tower Clusters

    • history

  • Misfits’ Guide to ALEXANDRIA

    • History and its uses

  • 1930: De-urbanism
  • 1956
  • Architecture Myths #1: “Islamic Architecture”
  • History Repeating #2: Farce
  • Moneymaking Machines #8: Marylebone Square
  • More of the same
  • Rapid Cities
  • Tall Order
  • The 3 R’s
  • The Construction of Gothic Cathedrals
  • The Fireplace
  • The History of Forgetting
  • The New Japanese House
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    history in motion

  • Formative Furniture
  • Houses for Sale
  • Misfits’ Guide to SHANGHAI
  • Second Time Around
  • The Floating World: Part I
  • The Houses of Arata Isozaki
  • Truncations
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    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
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    Ideal City

  • The Elevated Road
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    image as architecture

  • My Best Shots
  • Post-AI Imagery Fix

    • incremental development

  • Tokyo Notes

    • integrated performance

  • Design Reformation
  • Fit for Purpose
  • The Core
  • Wearable Architecture
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    integrative design process

  • Architecture Myths #31: Synthesis
  • Ch. 5., pp.210–215
  • Pattern

    • intermittently functional space

  • Open House
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    is aesthetics sustainable?

  • Fun With AI

    • is beauty worth it?

  • Modern Tropes

    • 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
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    Is it worth reading Patrik Schumacher's The Autopoiesis of Architecture?

  • Love You Long Time
  • 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
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    is The Autopoiesis of Architecture worth reading?

  • Operations, Structures and Processes

    • Japanese architecture

  • Misfits’ Guide to TOKYO #1

    • Kisho Kurokawa

  • Letting Go

    • kiyonori kikutake

  • Pilgrimage

    • landscape as social beauty

  • Chinese Landscape Painting #1
  • Infrastructure as Landscaping
  • Overthinking It

    • landscape design

  • The Japan Garden: 2. Qualities
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    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
  • Moneymaking Machines #12: One Hundred
  • 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
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    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
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    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
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    media glory

  • The 3rd Misfits’ Triennale: WEEK 1

    • Megastructures

  • What is a Megastructure?
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    meta-aesthetics

  • 0: SEPARATE
  • 16 Types of Beauty
  • 1: UNITE
  • 2: DETACH
  • 3: ATTACH
  • 4: EXTRACT
  • 5: COMBINE
  • 6: DISGUISE
  • 8: ALIENATE
  • 9: ASSIMILATE
  • A: DIFFERENTIATE
  • B: INTEGRATE
  • C: JUXTAPOSE
  • D: CONFLATE
  • Designer–Initiated Design vs. AI/BIM–Initiated Design
  • E: DESIGNATE
  • F: ASSOCIATE
  • More Words
  • Nature Trail
  • Notes & Exceptions
  • Simple Construction
  • The 2007 Draft: Derivation
  • The 2007 Draft: Introduction
  • The 2007 Draft: Preface
  • The Architecture of Architectures
  • The Architecture of Architectures (2007~)
  • Words and Buildings

    • minimal living

  • Minimalism: In Poor Taste

    • misfit architects

  • Architecture Misfit #41: Kiyoshi Seike
  • Architecture Misfit #42: Terunobu Fujimori (藤森 照信)
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    misfits

  • Architecture Misfit #44: Shigenori Uoya (魚谷繁礼)
  • TEN
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    misfits' musings

  • Career Case Study #1: Frederick Kiesler
  • Misfits’ “English for Architects” Awards

    • Modernism

  • 1970s French Furniture Design

    • Moneymaking Machines

  • Moneymaking Machines #13: The Flatiron Building
  • Moneymaking Machines #9 and #10: Central Park Tower & 111W57th
  • The Consortium
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    natural ventilation

  • The Handshake Apartment
  • The Handshake House

    • neo-liberalism & architecture

  • Four Walls and a Roof

    • new geometries for old purposes

  • Holes in Buildings

    • new housing ideas

  • Ch. 4, pp. 146-151
  • Getting There
  • The Household and Community (1/2)

    • new paradigms for architecture

  • Inhabitation

    • New typologies for new circumstances

  • A Field of Towers
  • About Face!
  • Antisocial House
  • Architecture Myths #33: Flexibile Space
  • Architecture Myths #8: Convenience
  • Caravanserai
  • Ch. 1, pp.46–55
  • Ch. 3, pp.120–128
  • Cold Logic vs. Warm Logic
  • Critical Spatiality
  • Deck Access
  • Defensible Space
  • Detention
  • Downmarketly Mobile
  • Freedom
  • Game On!
  • Going Outside
  • Going Up and Down
  • Greenhouse Effect
  • Handshake Hotel
  • Headroom
  • HOME WORK
  • Houses or Hotels
  • Incremental Improvements
  • Living on top of one another
  • Living the Dream
  • Lobby Living
  • Mall World
  • Mallville
  • Microhome
  • Modest Megastructures
  • New Mews (1/2)
  • New Mews (2/2)
  • Parklife
  • Pasadena Heights v3.0
  • Plan Without Qualities
  • Pre-Carbon Copy
  • Professional Development
  • Property Supplement
  • Public Architecture
  • Reconstructivism
  • Shikumen (石库门)
  • Streets In The Sky
  • The 1+1/2 Floor Apartment
  • The Active Band
  • The building is not trying to be a mountain
  • The Cost of Space
  • The Department Store
  • The Dispersed Apartment
  • The Dispersed House
  • The Domino’s House
  • The Expansible Home
  • The Extruded Mat Building
  • The Fabric of Space
  • The Factory
  • The Fire Escape Stair
  • The Future of BIM as an Active Driver of Industry Change (Part 2)
  • The Gentle Mashup
  • The Household and Community (2/2)
  • The Key Worker and the Tenure Divide
  • The Kitchen
  • The Landscraper
  • The Mat Building
  • The Microflat
  • The Microhouse
  • The Not-so-elevated Road
  • The Open Bathroom
  • The Outback
  • The Oval
  • The Piano and the Double-Sided Apartment
  • The Podium Building
  • The Rooftop
  • The Space Between Apartments
  • The Space of Power vs. The Power of Space
  • The Spaces Between Buildings
  • The Stacked Courtyard
  • The Uncompleted
  • The Vertical City
  • The Well-Serviced Apartment
  • Three Nasty Trends In Architecture
  • Urban Carpet vs. Mat City
  • Waterworld
  • Wind Tower
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    other ways of understanding architecture

  • After Architecture
  • Architectural Assimilation
  • Architecture Myths #14: The Difficult Whole
  • Architecture Myths #15: Intellectual vs. Romantic
  • Architecture Myths #19: Popular Culture
  • dysfunctionalism
  • Dysfunctionalism^2
  • How Architecture Works
  • Is Aesthetics Sustainable?
  • Pietro Lingeri and the New Realism
  • Playing it like it is
  • Skin Deep
  • The Aftermath
  • The Floating World: Part II
  • The Future of BIM as an Active Driver of Industry Change
  • The New Inhumanism
  • The Piano Equivalent
  • The Real Function of Form
  • The Red Igloo
  • The Things Architects Do #2: Ornament
  • The Winter Garden
  • US 7,540,120
  • What’s the point of Architecture? – Part 1
  • What’s the point of Architecture? – Part 2
  • Where Architecture Went Wrong
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    perception management follows development gain

  • Architecture Myths #11: Lowly Building Types
  • Architecture Myths #16: Memes
  • Architecture Myths #24: Beauty vs. Everything Else
  • Architecture Myths #6: Maximising Views
  • Arkitektistan
  • Brands as Architectural Legacy
  • Celebrity Shoot-out
  • Cultural Kowtow
  • Different Strokes
  • Dubai Deconstruction Update
  • Imagery as Architecture
  • Markitecture
  • Moneti$ing Architectural Fame (In 6 Easy Diagrams!)
  • 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
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    performance

  • An Architecture of Sharing (2’nd Attempt)
  • An Integrative Design Approach
  • Houses With One Staircase
  • I❤️U vs. 我爱你
  • 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
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    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
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    performance beauty

  • Chinese Simple Made
  • The Gardened City
  • The Placement of Windows
  • Yahata Library
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    Performance-Beauty

  • An Architecture of Sharing
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    Post-Fordist society

  • Identicality And Its Opposite

    • post-modernism and language

  • Writing By Numbers

    • property and power

  • Power Stations

    • redefining contemporary design

  • Automatic Design

    • redundant design

  • Design: Free at Last!

    • representation in architecture

  • Architecture Myths #32: Representation
  • Mock 3D Printing

    • representation vs. function

  • Working From Home

    • rereading history

  • Featurism

    • rewriting history

  • “Fill’erup with Specialness!”
  • Aesthetic Fitness
  • Architecture Myths #18: The Free Plan
  • Bauhaus Fatigue
  • Contempt for History
  • Media Studies
  • Pilotis
  • Retrofitting Architectural Concepts
  • The Free Facade
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    sensible construction

  • 3D or not 3D?

    • Sheds as architecture

  • “It’s a shed!”
  • Advance of the Sheds
  • Green Computing and the Smart Shed
  • Sheds Without Shame
  • The Shed is Not Trying to Look Beautiful #1
  • The Sheep Shed
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    signifier vs. signified

  • Tree Green

    • simplicity vs. complexity

  • The KISS Principle
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    social housing as architecture

  • Ch. 4, pp.159-163

    • space and light

  • Second Thoughts (a.k.a. Part 2)
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    survival

  • How To Leave a Company
  • Ignorance is Bliss
  • SHELTER
  • The Cycle of Cold
  • The Great Filter
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    Sustainability

  • Closed Systems

    • Sustainability and aesthetics

  • Progressively Less

    • The architect as ornament

  • AD Louvre vs. LV Foundation
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    the ever-narrowing definition of architecture

  • Architecture Myths #13: Field Space
  • COLOURBLIND
  • Inflationary Tendencies
  • Political Correctness and Architecture
  • The Hexagon [a eulogy]
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    the forces operating against a useful architecture

  • 100 IDEAS
  • 1950–1965 Australia
  • Architecture Myths #17: Genius Loci
  • BAD FORM
  • Buildings of Questionable Purpose
  • Do-gooders
  • Motion Sickness
  • RAW
  • Space Merchants
  • The Homestead Myth
  • The Unsmart Home
  • The Venus Project
  • The Will of the Epoch (1/2)
  • The Will of the Epoch (2/2)
  • Vertical Farmwash
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    the future of density

  • Different Places
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    the language of representation

  • I ♥️ LLM

    • the neoliberal mutation of architectural creativity

  • Architecture Myths #27: Individuality

    • the parametric bottom-line

  • Prefab Parametric!

    • the philosophy of render

  • Keeping it Real
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    the problem of architecture education

  • E |▼| | | | | | | | F
  • That First Idea

    • theory

  • Architectural Dogma

    • time and place

  • Perspective
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    towards an architectural history fit for purpose

  • 1965–1980 Japan
  • An Ordinary Beauty
  • Another Level
  • Architecture Myths #20: The Villa Savoye
  • Architecture Myths #25: The Creative Spark
  • Architecture Myths #2: The Artist
  • Architecture Myths #3: Futurist Early Deaths
  • Career Case Study #13: Ludwig Leo
  • Ch. 4, pp. 169-173
  • Divide & Conquer
  • Glass and Other Houses
  • Gone, Mostly Forgotten
  • History Fatigue
  • History Repeating #1: Tragedy
  • History Scrapheap
  • Let’s Dance!
  • Old Ideas for New Architectures
  • 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
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    towards an architecture history fit for purpose

  • Inconvenient History

    • urban farming

  • Architecture Myths #28: Self-Sufficiency

    • waste management

  • Waste in China

    • what do we want from architecture education?

  • Architects, the new tailors
  • Architecture & Engineering
  • Architecture Misfits #27: The Analog Student
  • Architecture Myths #29: The Problem
  • Architecture Myths #30: Analysis
  • Architecture of Innocence
  • Associative Design
  • Clever Solutions
  • Concept Conflict
  • Confidence
  • Existential Anxieties
  • Formative Houses
  • Grading Criteria
  • Infinite Monkey Architecture
  • Learning Curve
  • List of Topics
  • Mission Statement
  • Models of Instruction
  • Not these sounds (again) !
  • Performance Anxiety
  • School of Life
  • Talking Shop
  • Teaching & Learning
  • The Grand Tour
  • The Notebooks of Ludwig Kurz
  • The Twisted Education of Architects
  • Twelve Books on Architecture
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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
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    what if architectural aesthetics in general and beauty in particular were knowable after all and not the mysteries they're made out to be?

  • Full House

    • what is architectural meaning anyway?

  • Architecture Myths #21: Total Design
  • ART IN SPACE!
  • Culture, History, etc. and BUILDINGS (1)
  • News from Overseas
  • Structural Engineering as Art?
  • The New Architecture of Austerity
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    what is beauty?

  • Absence of Criminal Intent
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    what is the future of architecture?

  • Architecture Reductions
  • Final Reductions!

    • what is the relationship between art and architecture?

  • Art As Houses
  • Art Vacuum
  • Houses as Art
  • Living as Art
  • Misfits’ Guide to Hangzhou (杭州）
  • ZHA@MAM, Shanghai

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    • what will Nature be like in the future?

  • Future Nature
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  • The Things Architects Do #8: Cherry Blossoms
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    what's the future of architecture?

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    • what's the use of architecture theory?

  • Good in theory?

    • What's this blog all about anyway?

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  • Architecture Misfit #13: Georg Muche
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  • Conceptual Continuity
  • COR-TEN® Steel
  • Decorative CMU
  • Disambiguation: ARM Architecture
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  • Isamu Noguchi: Aesthetic Efficiency
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