Ah, what a strange creature I am. I should have figured out something was wrong with me the day I stopped reading architecture magazines and started to buy The Economist . Go figure.
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Political science states the difference between rationalism and incrementalism . A rationalist approach aspires to create an ideal system, identifying the factors, elements or activities that are essential to its foundation and providing the necessary resources to put them into practice. The latter approach, of incremental nature, is based on a contrasting set of principles.
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Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman is a documentary film by Eric Bricker, now available on DVD (US release). Architectural photography is often questioned on ethical terms regarding the conflict between the objective documentation of the built environment and the creative endeavour of the photographer. There is an underlying misconception at work that resonates with the idea that photographs are taken instead of made , a notion that implies the sense that the images themselves are already there.
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Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman is a documentary film by Eric Bricker, now available on DVD (US release). Architectural photography is often questioned on ethical terms regarding the conflict between the objective documentation of the built environment and the creative endeavour of the photographer. There is an underlying misconception at work that resonates with the idea that photographs are taken instead of made , a notion that implies the sense that the images themselves are already there
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Oh, no, not that song again. And here we go on another ride, following Bjarke Ingels himself as he pedals furiously through the Danish Pavilion.
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I don’t think sustainability is a design aesthetic, any more than having electricity in your building, or telephones, or anything else. It’s an ethic, a basic consideration that we have to have as architects designing buildings. (…) in 10 years we’re not going to talk about sustainability anymore, because it’s going to be built into the core processes of architecture.
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About a couple of months ago Bob Borson referenced me in one of his ever motivating posts as he contemplated the blogger’s million dollar question: How big is your blog? I’ve been wanting to give Bob some feedback on that topic but my life being crazy as it usually is, this time with a car crash in the middle to make things even more complicated, it’s been hard to get my thoughts together to write what I wanted to say. So, a bit late but still, here goes… Bob started his blog – Life of an Architect – in January this year.
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Nicked from [ the belly of an architect ] time elapsed videos of the Danish and UK pavilions by Bjarke Injels Group and Thomas Heatherwick , respectively.
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You don’t need to travel to Shanghai to get a glimpse of the Danish Pavilion with this incredible time-lapse rollercoaster. When you’re finished, don’t forget to watch the UK Pavilion as well: here and here .
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Fragments of otherwise dormant urban fabric are brought to life by these eccentric figures. Sam3 (Spain), Os Gémeos (Brasil) and Blu (Italy) passed through Lisbon and left some inspired paintings on the walls of a couple of abandoned buildings.
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