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The Tyranny of the Template: The Graphic Design of the First Edition of ‘Learning From Las Vegas’

Pioneering architect and urban planner Denise Scott Brown looks back at the creative battle behind a book that redefined architectural thinking.

Denise Scott Brown |

Culture

Moshe Safdie: My Steps and Gardens and Bees

Architect Moshe Safdie describes how his boyhood fascination with steps, terraces, and the wax hexagons of beehives led him to a life immersed in the complexities of design.

Moshe Safdie |

Culture

Remembering My Friend Jean-Louis Cohen

Thomas Weaver, Senior Acquisitions Editor for Art and Architecture at the MIT Press, reflects on the life and legacy of Jean-Louis Cohen, a hugely influential French architectural historian, curator, writer, and teacher, who died in August.

Thomas Weaver |

Culture

Inside the Lizard Tree Library at Slab City

Books in Slab City provide valuable footholds out here in the desert on the edge of society.

Charlie Hailey |

Culture

Piranesi, Borges, and the Labyrinths of Time

Jorge Luis Borges was deeply inspired by the work of Giovanni Battista Piranesi, whose prints of imaginary prisons and palaces captured the Argentinian author's imagination.

Victor Plahte Tschudi |

Culture

The Medieval Origins of Architectural Drawing

In 12th-century Paris, a Scottish monk wrote a biblical commentary and inadvertently invented architectural drawing as we know it.

Karl Kinsella |

Culture

A Sentimental Autobiography of a Holiday Home Built in the North of Sardinia in the 1960s

"Usually, those who do seem to understand the essence of the house begin to behave a little strangely, as if they were under its spell."

Sebastiano Brandolini |

Culture

Tokyoids: The Aesthetics of Dismemberment in Japan

Pain is integral to the structure of the Japanese language, and related to the particularity of local building design practices.

François Blanciak |

Environment

Lessons From an Architect in a Time of Crisis

Green architecture can solve the climate change problem, but only once it stops creating new ones.

Eric Cesal |

Culture

The Computer Misfits: The Rise and Fall of the Pioneering Laboratory for Computer Graphics

Harvard's LCGSA was a significant educational experiment, training one of the first generations of designers in computers and new media.

Evangelos Kotsioris |

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