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The word "architecture" derives from an ancient Greek term meaning "master builder", and the greatest practitioners of the craft certainly merit that title. The feeds below offer varied perspectives on this noble science. Prepare to b... 
The word "architecture" derives from an ancient Greek term meaning "master builder", and the greatest practitioners of the craft certainly merit that title. The feeds below offer varied perspectives on this noble science. Prepare to be wowed.
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Geoff Shearcroft, of The Agents of Change, will be coming round tomorrow at 11:30am to speak at the Storefront for Art and Architecture's Pop Up branch here in London.Aside from holding down the fort for Geoffs everywhere, Shearcroft and I were actually guests on the same radio show a few years ago, but this will be the...
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Another interviewee at tomorrow's event is Simon Bradley, editor of the Pevsner Architectural Guides and author of St Pancras, one of the titles in Mary Beard's ongoing Wonders of the World series. [Image: Simon Bradley and St Pancras].The book is fantastically interesting, even for an American reader, like myself, who...
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Tomorrow at 2pm I'll be interviewing novelist Tom McCarthy at the Storefront for Art and Architecture here in London. McCarthy's excellent book Remainder – which just last month won the fourth annual Believer Book Award – is about a man in London who is hit on the head by "something falling from the sky." He thus goes into a...
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I thought it'd be useful, and even quite fun, to look at a few projects by the people who I'll be interviewing here at the all-day event tomorrow in London, especially as some of you might not be familiar with their work. So, over the next hour or two, and in no particular order, I'll be going through some books, projects,...
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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } berlin badeschiff - AMP arquitectos, originally uploaded by maurizio.mwg. Berlin Badeschiff (swimming pool) in Berlin, Germany by AMP Arquitectos. See...
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I'm in London – in fact, I'm sitting at a table in the basement of the Building Centre – with some great things lined up for the week. One event, in particular, though, seems worthy of mention here.This Friday, on the 4th of July, I will be moderating an all-day series of live interviews hosted at the Storefront for Art and...
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My weekly page update:Bikuben Student Residence in Copenhagen, Denmark by aart a/s.Pro Domo by Yona Friedman.Some unrelated links for your enjoyment: One-Way StreetA blog "concerned with the political content of the aesthetic and representations of the political in the media." (added to sidebar under blogs::urban)Design...
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The web page and office of Malaysian architect Kevin Mark Low goes by the name Small Projects, both an accurate description of his work and a sort of design philosophy where nothing is too small to be designed. Browsing the numerous small projects on Low's site -- projects that range from a mailbox to an office building --...
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Transmaterial 2: A Catalog of Materials that Redefine our Physical Environment (2008) by Blaine BrownellPrinceton Architectural PressPaperback, 512 pagesTwo years ago we were introduced to a catalog of materials illustrating the innovations in materials research and design. This second installment of Blaine Brownell's Transma...
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[Image: Photo by Gigi Cifali; view larger].There was an interesting overlap the other week between Time Out London's cover story, "Swim City," about London's "best pools, ponds and lidos," and Polar Inertia's newest issue featuring beautiful photographs of abandoned swimming pools throughout the greater London area.[Image:...
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