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No more weird architecture in Philadelphia: a retroactive manifesto for the...

The main exhibit hall at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia is as long as three city blocks. This is a universal space, unencumbered by columns, and enriched by connection points and...

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An exhibition that explores Maryland’s early women in architecture

The lobby of the Enoch Pratt Free Library in central Baltimore is a loud, busy space—double-high with hard marble surfaces, designed in 1930 in a Beaux Arts Greek Revival style. Curator and architect...

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NASA’s bold space habitats inspired a generation of designers

This is an excerpt from a forthcoming book, Space Settlements, about the architectural, historical, social, and science-fictional contexts surrounding NASA’s efforts to design large-scale human...

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Lydia Kallipoliti cracks open yesterday’s sealed techno utopias

The Architecture of Closed Worlds; or, What Is the Power of Shit? Lydia Kallipoliti Lars Muller Publishers $40.00 Where’s the future we were promised? It’s hard to follow popular culture in the early...

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Living in space is the answer, but what was the question?

In early September of this year, I was at a conference at an aviation museum in Seattle, to lend some architectural context to ideas about long-term living in space. The folks at the Space Studies...

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Spaceship Earth is a tale of quarantine set within a massive geodesic backdrop

It may not surprise that Spaceship Earth, the new documentary about Biosphere 2, directed by Matt Wolf and available now to stream online, is replete with references to science fiction. [...] Read...

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Two new book and film projects take the contemplative approach to the climate...

The mid-20th-century writer and philosopher Marshall McLuhan first used the phrase “the medium is the message” in his 1964 book, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. For McLuhan, the content...

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No more weird architecture in Philadelphia: a retroactive manifesto for the...

The main exhibit hall at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia is as long as three city blocks. This is a universal space, unencumbered by columns, and enriched by connection [...] Read...

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An exhibition that explores Maryland’s early women in architecture

The lobby of the Enoch Pratt Free Library in central Baltimore is a loud, busy space—double-high with hard marble surfaces, designed in 1930 in a Beaux Arts Greek Revival style. [...] Read More... The...

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NASA’s bold space habitats inspired a generation of designers

This is an excerpt from a forthcoming book, Space Settlements, about the architectural, historical, social, and science-fictional contexts surrounding NASA’s efforts to design large-scale human...

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Lydia Kallipoliti cracks open yesterday’s sealed techno utopias

The Architecture of Closed Worlds; or, What Is the Power of Shit? Lydia Kallipoliti Lars Muller Publishers $40.00 Where’s the future we were promised? It’s hard to follow popular culture [...] Read...

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Living in space is the answer, but what was the question?

In early September of this year, I was at a conference at an aviation museum in Seattle, to lend some architectural context to ideas about long-term living in space. The [...] Read More... The post...

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Spaceship Earth is a tale of quarantine set within a massive geodesic backdrop

It may not surprise that Spaceship Earth, the new documentary about Biosphere 2, directed by Matt Wolf and available now to stream online, is replete with references to science fiction. [...] Read...

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Two new book and film projects take the contemplative approach to the climate...

The mid-20th-century writer and philosopher Marshall McLuhan first used the phrase “the medium is the message” in his 1964 book, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. For McLuhan, the content...

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No more weird architecture in Philadelphia: a retroactive manifesto for the...

The main exhibit hall at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia is as long as three city blocks. This is a universal space, unencumbered by columns, and enriched by connection [...] Read...

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An exhibition that explores Maryland’s early women in architecture

The lobby of the Enoch Pratt Free Library in central Baltimore is a loud, busy space—double-high with hard marble surfaces, designed in 1930 in a Beaux Arts Greek Revival style. [...] Read More... The...

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NASA’s bold space habitats inspired a generation of designers

This is an excerpt from a forthcoming book, Space Settlements, about the architectural, historical, social, and science-fictional contexts surrounding NASA’s efforts to design large-scale human...

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Lydia Kallipoliti cracks open yesterday’s sealed techno utopias

The Architecture of Closed Worlds; or, What Is the Power of Shit? Lydia Kallipoliti Lars Muller Publishers $40.00 Where’s the future we were promised? It’s hard to follow popular culture [...] Read...

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Living in space is the answer, but what was the question?

In early September of this year, I was at a conference at an aviation museum in Seattle, to lend some architectural context to ideas about long-term living in space. The [...] Read More... The post...

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Spaceship Earth is a tale of quarantine set within a massive geodesic backdrop

It may not surprise that Spaceship Earth, the new documentary about Biosphere 2, directed by Matt Wolf and available now to stream online, is replete with references to science fiction. [...] Read...

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