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“Form ever follows function” (Louis Sullivan) contra positioned with “We shape our buildings, and afterwards our buildings shape us” (Churchill)
Normal people carried out their lives in them with a density and individuality that no one trip could ever encompass.
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
In The Image of the City (1960), Lynch identified the crucial role of the sense of place that ‘in itself enhances every human activity that occurs there and encourages the deposit of a memory trace’. This separation of ‘place’ in spirit and idea could, he argued, be differentiated physically and conceptually, as in edge, path, node, district and la... See more
Gillian Darley • How Gaston Bachelard gave the emotions of home a philosophy | Aeon Essays
While watching Die Hard the other night—easily one of the best architectural films of the past 25 years—I kept thinking about an essay called “Lethal Theory” by Eyal Weizman—itself one of the best and most consequential architectural texts of the past decade (download the complete PDF).
Nakatomi Space
finding new ways to experiment with an ancient art.
Paul Goldberger • Building Art
I have liked almost every café that I have ever been to in France, even the ratty little ones in tiny villages where the flies are more plentiful than customers, but I have a soft spot for the sprawling cafés of the Cours Mirabeau, and the softest spot of all for the Deux Garçons. Successive generations of proprietors have put their profits under t
... See morePeter Mayle • A Year in Provence (Vintage Departures)
Psychogeography
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