Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
space of places.”
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
maintains avant-garde pretensions despite being entirely milquetoast.
Sean Monahan • INTERNET COOL
Taking architecture seriously therefore makes some singular and strenuous demands upon us. It requires that we open ourselves to the idea that we are affected by our surroundings even when they are made of vinyl and would be expensive and time-consuming to ameliorate. It means conceding that we are inconveniently vulnerable to the colour of our wal
... See moreAlain de Botton • The Architecture of Happiness (Vintage International)
those spaces deemed commercially unproductive are always under threat,
Jenny Odell • How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
As the columnist Aditya Chakrabortty puts it, ‘One of the great casualties of austerity is likely to be imagination, the sense that alternatives to this broken regime not only exist, but can be built by us.’
Rob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
Alistair Knox was a designer, builder and advocate for an alternate lifestyle. Between 1946 and 1986 he designed over 1,000 houses, a number of churches, schools and other buildings. The job numbers reached 1266 of these he built about 350. He is best known for his mud brick output of about 300 buildings. These were built in two periods: before 195... See more
Alistair Knox
A place of layers. A place of palimpsest. A place of loss.