The Playful City: From the 1960s Strive for Spontaneity to Today’s Space of Entertainment

The Playful City: From the 1960s Strive for Spontaneity to Today’s Space of Entertainment

The unscripted play advocated by the Eventstructure Research Group has over the last few decades been lost to increasingly consumption-oriented spaces, encouraging prescribed entertainment and leisure.

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Community Wealth Building: An Idea Afraid of its Own Radical Potential

Community Wealth Building: An Idea Afraid of its Own Radical Potential

Beirut’s Architecture of Erasure Countered by Literary Placemaking

Beirut’s Architecture of Erasure Countered by Literary Placemaking

The Playful City: From the 1960s Strive for Spontaneity to Today’s Space of Entertainment

The Playful City: From the 1960s Strive for Spontaneity to Today’s Space of Entertainment

University of Amsterdam Shirks Urban Responsibilities Despite Legacy

University of Amsterdam Shirks Urban Responsibilities Despite Legacy

Architecture is a very strong dimension of this normal violence

#06 Architects in Calais: On Border Systems and Self-built Cities

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#06 Architects in Calais: On Border Systems and Self-built Cities

City Skins: Scenes from an Augmented Urban Reality

City Skins: Scenes from an Augmented Urban Reality

Photo Essay: Written on Glass – Detroit ’67

Photo Essay: Written on Glass – Detroit ’67

London Becomes Museum

London Becomes Museum

Photo Essay: Windows in Crisis – The Decline of Athens’ Commercial Cityscape

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Photo Essay: Windows in Crisis – The Decline of Athens’ Commercial Cityscape

Dredging the Dutch City, Part 3: Utrecht

Dredging the Dutch City, Part 3: Utrecht

#05 London Undone: Gaika and Ash Sarkar Discuss the City’s Past, Present and Future

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#05 London Undone: Gaika and Ash Sarkar Discuss the City’s Past, Present and Future

A Conversation with Keller Easterling

A Conversation with Keller Easterling

Amsterdam’s Architecture of Colonial Exploitation

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Amsterdam’s Architecture of Colonial Exploitation

Designers are still very solutionist

#04 Alexandra Lange: Judging Architecture and How We Design for Kids

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#04 Alexandra Lange: Judging Architecture and How We Design for Kids

#03 Modernism Distorted: Selling Utopia From Kleiburg to Keeling House

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#03 Modernism Distorted: Selling Utopia From Kleiburg to Keeling House

Incompiuto Summer School: Join FA in Palermo

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Incompiuto Summer School: Join FA in Palermo

Resisting Phnom Penh’s Beautification Plan

Resisting Phnom Penh’s Beautification Plan

All I have to do is sit and wait for natural tenant turnover

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