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Is there a measure of health, or wealth, that is not about this competitive increase, but about a horizontal redistribution?
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Is there a measure of health, or wealth, that is not about this competitive increase, but about a horizontal redistribution?
No strangers to the presence of water flowing through the city
More than a morality tale of environmental hubris
The fog of logistics is as thick as the smoke from Canadian wildfires
Our capital is sinking, so let’s build a new one
Wooden frames made of chocolate-covered icing
Super-production, supermarket, super-induction to super-consumption
Masquerade as housing … carceral in nature
An imagined authenticity of days gone by
Dressed up in eye-catching graphics
International anti-imperial solidarity
Press 1 for this, press 2 for that
Why is he making a building?
Cubo estirado con antenas
Una diferencia de poder entre el observador y el observado
Appropriating the fenced-off notion of heritage
We don’t need totalizing visions
If its existence is known, it can be disrupted
The race to the bottom is already well underway
A publicly funded staircase-cum-landmark
Acceptable standards of accommodation
These infrastructures aim for complete and utter control at every scale
‘May we have your attention please’
Delivery workers are deemed “essential”
A decades-long game of cat and mouse
Building with wood appears to be a simple, singular solution to the enormous problem of architecture’s enormous carbon footprint
I just want to feel hot today
Baristas, farmers, day laborers, content writers, and teenagers
Evadir, no pagar, otra forma de luchar!
The distinction between private and public is too rigid, it doesn’t allow for in-between areas
Anti-car barriers, fencing, security cameras, anti-homeless spikes, and other blunt technologies
The impotence of nostalgia is pervasive
But I do think American taste is improving…
Transfeminist perspectives still remains largely absent from architectural debate
It’s not official, it’s not on the books, but it’s real
Public emptiness becomes a dystopic object of contemplation
Persevere through desires for collectivity, proximity, and intimacy
Architects and urban designers cannot pretend to be innocent, creative workers
The material solutionism available to architects is unable to address some of the key drivers of climate disaster
Constructing a museum is not a politically neutral act
Our task is to convert volumes of space into money
Every day is exactly the same – for the past few months, I’ve been tidying up the groups in a BIM model
The histories of our actions are embedded in the material world
What is at stake is the erasure of an architecture which faithfully mirrors the ambiguities, complexities and struggles of the contemporary urban experience
A pastoral fiction that speaks more to a mutated village life than what is arguably the height of techno-capitalism today
The politics of the industry remain a mystery to most on-lookers
Six months ago the first ever AI-driven residential property acquisition took place
The romanticising images of ruins ignore the political dimensions on the ground
All claims to community are shaky
Architecture is a very strong dimension of this normal violence
Designers are still very solutionist
All I have to do is sit and wait for natural tenant turnover
Architecture is all about people
There is a brutalist quality to grime music
One of the great myths of cloud storage is its space-saving potential
The Mosul Dam is Failing
Are these representations of ruins sincere?
We are all orphans in the city now
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