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That all urban development has been locked into path dependency on an economic concern now millennia out-of-date is surely a cause of unimaginable waste and inefficiency.
Sacha Meyers • Bitcoin Is Venice: Essays on the Past and Future of Capitalism
Architecture from another planet.
Matt Haig • The Midnight Library: The No.1 Sunday Times bestseller and worldwide phenomenon
Mat uses everyday materials so ingeniously that their original provenance fades away and you can only see them as the tiny buildings they’ve become.
Robin Sloan • Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore: A Novel
Building is a journey into randomness. By venturing mindfully through a wealth of data, collective histories, and economic considerations, there are remarkable synchronicities to be discovered.
Nikita Singareddy • Building Physical/Digital Spaces for Healthcare, Trends in 💊 Development Timelines and more
Globalization
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
a recognizable part of the international non-place.
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
one of the most troubling trends in architecture, a steady reduction in the authority of the architect as a consequence of the increasing complexity of the construction process.
Paul Goldberger • Building Art
the ability of architects to provide an answer to social problems.
Paul Goldberger • Building Art
Alex Steffen writes in his newsletter The Snap Forward: