Parsing distinctions between architecture and “mere” building has been a preoccupation of thinkers and practitioners since ancient times. The very difficulty of defining neat disciplinary boundaries ...

In 1921, Loos titled his first essay collection Spoken into the Void; the work was intended as a critique of his Austrian contemporaries’ ignorance of modern lifestyles.Indirectly, the “void” in the ...

Sean Canty, assistant professor of architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and founder of Studio Sean Canty, invited Casey Cadwallader, American fashion designer and Creative Director of ...

Before books, there were scrolls. The ancient Romans, like the Sumerians, stored their extensive scroll collections in “cells,” or pigeonholes (nidus, forulus, or loculamentum), or on pegmata, ...

I was born a Sloterdijkian. When, thirty years ago, I was preparing the proofs of Laboratory Life, I had included in the pictures, to the disgust of my scientist informants, a black-and-white ...

More recently, in China, the architects Tiantian Xu of DnA and Wang Shu have both employed a form of “acupuncture urbanism” (a term coined by the Spanish city planner Manuel de Solà-Morales) to push ...

1 Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999), 79–135.. 2 See Aristotle, The Politics, trans. T. A. Sinclair (London: Penguin, 1981).. 3 The ideology of the ...

1.La Casa bella, founded as a design magazine in 1928, changed its name to Casabella in 1933: it was only then that it began to concern itself almost exclusively with architecture.. 2 In her memoirs, ...

1 The U.S. Green Building Council has codified the link between building, rebuilding, and sustainability in its LEED program, promoting the reuse of old buildings to “extend the lifecycle of existing ...

1 See Robert Somol and Sarah Whiting, “Notes Around the Doppler Effect and Other Moods of Modernism,” Perspecta 33 (2002): 73.. 2 Koolhaas, quoted by Beth Kapusta, The Canadian Architect Magazine 39 ...

Such small foreign policies should be the objectives of future global planning mechanisms in transfrontier regions such as Tijuana-San Diego. As we look at the region’s landscape, several design and ...

1 Laurie Olin, letter to the Graham Foundation, August 3, 1999.. 2 Norman Newton, Design on the Land (Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1971), xxi.. 3 Borrowed from linguistics, ...