February 2012
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January 2012
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Seeing the Building for the Trees →
What would Christopher Alexander have to say, I wonder?
I’ll have to respond/comment on this more extensively - but basically the embodiment-metaphor camp, originating in part from Lakoff & Johnson’s Metaphors We Live By is being discussed as it pertains to architectural design. There’s much more to it than is covered in this article, but it is great to see this discussion...
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December 2011
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truer words?
gsappspeak:
“FORM FOLLOWS CAPITAL”
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Goo's back. →
Goo on it. Give it your goo. Goo it.
The Art of not Drowning →
via itwonlast, an article about the art of the airline safety card. Every time I fly, I want to snag it and build a collection. I only think I’ve done it once or twice, hopefully on the stranger trips (prop plane across Hungary maybe?). Where did Avi Steinberg find these?
By AVI STEINBERG
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But even in these cards there are some moments of genuine pathos. Like the best of the...
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mmmmm.
Gentle Friendly - Speakers
November 2011
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Watchbut zaha said, ”drawing is dead”!
o1nichols:
a film by elizabeth nichols
drawing by owen nichols
music by adanma ekeledo
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October 2011
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WatchGSAPP in the witching hours.
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Objective Correlative: The Origin of the THING... →
A reasons to think things matter:
theobjectivecorrelative:
The Origin of the THING
“…the old word “Thing” or “Ding” designated originally a certain type of archaic assembly.Many parliaments in Nordic and Saxon nations still activate the old root of this etymology: Norwegian congressmen assemble in the Storting; Icelandic deputies called the equivalent…
Let the litigation begin! Unpaid Interns UNITE! →
And so it begins! No slavery for us!
Farmers...or bankers?
Quote from Mencken, as related in an essay entitled “Man and Nature, Part IV: A Marxist Critique of the “Green” Environmental Movement”:
They are all willing and eager to pillage us by starving us, but they can’t do it because they can’t resist attempts to swindle each other. Recall, for example, the case of the cotton-growers in the South. Back in the 1920’s they agreed among...
September 2011
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ideas, instincts, and intuitions: Creepy genetic... →
via george. totally wild. a brilliant strategy for killing the elegant but odious mosquito or a roll of the dice on evolutionary mayhem?
romeviharo:
These soldiers are the first of a new kind of creature - “autocidal” maniacs genetically modified to wipe out their own kind without harming other creatures. The first animals being targeted with these “living pesticides” are disease-carrying...
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Goo on The Unpaid Architecture Internship
This past Friday, a question was posed to the panelists at the Columbia GSAPP event “What is the future of the architectural studio?” regarding the use of unpaid interns. This past spring, the following essay appeared in the publication Goo, produced in part by students at GSAPP.
The Unpaid Architecture Internship and the Culture of an Architectural Education “Thank god for...
August 2011
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July 2011
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WatchAtlantis launch. Let’s do this again sometime, k? Please.
June 2011
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