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Anna Mackenzie • Knowing it all vs. figuring it out

To design the building, the developer hires an architect, who will lead the design effort and manage the design team (which includes specialties like structural engineers, mechanical engineers, and so on). The architect is the developer’s agent, and is duty-bound by professional ethics to act in their interest.

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Brian Potter • Why Skyscrapers Became Glass Boxes

There's this concept called "vernacular architecture" that refers to a style or design developed from local needs, using local materials, and reflecting local traditions. In contrast to formal architect's academic professionalization, the vernacular architect actually isn't an architect at all , by modern definitions.

Coleman McCormick • Designing from Experience, Not Expertise

“An archive presuposes an archivist”. That is where the thought about the agency of the archivist can be developed. The archivist has the needed agency to decide on the purpose and predestined longevity of the archive. I would like to dip into longevity first. In that respect there seems to be at least two ways to archive. First is archiving for a

CIAM proponents claimed everything that came before as useless. To them, the world was a tabula rasa, and they worked vigorously to eradicate anything traditional from the toolkit of architects. While elitist and authoritarian if not fascist in their pronouncements, they undertook Le Corbusier’s hypocritically self-aggrandizing style war.

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I could probably write an essay on how the MOMA demolished the Folk Art Museum by Williams and Tsien in NYC. The FAM was a masterpiece, it’s known for the facade, but the interior was special too. I think it went out of business. MOMA was next door, and instead of acknowledging the museum as a work of art, they figured big open spaces would be

An architecture is a hierarchical system of parts that come together to solve timeless design problems.

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Research for a house proposal in an industrial farming landscape. Silos and Sheds on Steroids. Pure function. Architecture without Architects. Drawings of Silo products from MySilo.com.

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