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we call this idea bigamy

that you can take multiple desirable

elements that might not fit together or

even seem mutually exclusive like the

garden home in the high-rise and merge

them together into a new genre

you don't have to remain faithful to a

single idea you can literally marry

multiple ideas into promiscuous hybrids

the beauty is that architecture... See more

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The flat layout of the building made for constant chance encounters in the hallways. Vertical buildings create rigid boundaries, since floors and stairs are harder barriers, so the horizontal footprint caused people to run into dozens of others throughout a typical day. From the air, it looked like an oblique letter E (with a little extra E), and... See more

Coleman McCormick • MIT's Building 20: a Masterpiece of Utility

Architecture

Still, I think something more fundamental has been lost for all of us as social media has evolved. It’s harder to find the spark of discovery, or the sense that the Web offers an alternate world of possibilities. Instead of each forging our own idiosyncratic paths online, we are caught in the grooves that a few giant companies have carved for us... See more

Kyle Chayka • Coming of Age at the Dawn of the Social Internet | The New Yorker

Why Mars Needs a Creative Director

The Body As Mixer

Reggie James hipcityreg.substack.com

My ether of LLM convos

Reference mining, in the context of DJ'ing and creative work, refers to the process of searching for and collecting diverse sources of inspiration and information to use in one's work

. This practice involves:

Exploring the past and present for relevant material
Discovering rich histories and cultural contexts
Gathering a wide range of references to inform creative output

Examples of reference mining might include:

A DJ digging through record crates to find obscure samples for a new mix
A fashion designer researching historical clothing styles for a modern collection
A writer exploring various literary genres to develop a unique writing style
A filmmaker studying different cultural mythologies to create a new narrative

This process allows creators to act as "mixers," combining diverse elements to produce new and impactful work

. By mining references, artists can create connections between different ideas, time periods, and cultures, leading to innovative and thought-provoking creations.

Quality emerges from the complexity of the system in action ; it is in the how rather than the what. Thus, when Quality is broken down into parts and analyzed, its essence is lost. This explains why analysis alone has trouble discerning the authentic from the artific ial. Moreover, Quality frozen in a theory or process cannot be recognized in... See more

Anonymous • Conviction

taste

But most of what we have around us is “junkspace” – bad buildings that are ugly, poorly designed, and unpleasant to be in, composed of cheap toxic materials that make people and the planet sick, and built by unskilled workers that are exploited, enslaved and endangered on the job. Starchitect Rem Koolhaas coined the term “junkspace” in 2001 in his... See more

phenomenology Archives - Slow Space

Software for Your Mom

Situated software isn't a technological strategy so much as an attitude about closeness of fit between software and its group of users, and a refusal to embrace scale, generality or completeness as unqualified virtues. Seen in this light, the obsession with personalization of Web School software is an apology for the obvious... See more