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Nov 20
A Social Philosophy of Buttresses : [Image: The front and back covers of Support Structures].The last book launch I want to mention today—it seems like the only things going on these days are book launches!—is for an amazing-look...
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Nov 20
The squalor, the possibilities, the madness : It is clearly the season for book launch events!...
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Nov 20
Landscapes of Energy : Tonight in Cambridge, Massachusetts, New Geographies will be kicking off its second issue, "Landscapes of Energy," with a launch party and panel discussion....
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Nov 19
The Fall : Photographer Richard Mosse, interviewed here on BLDGBLOG earlier this year, has a show opening up tonight in New York City: The Fall....
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Nov 18
Refuge : [Image: Photo by Bas Princen, from Five Cities Portfolio].Photographer Bas Princen has a new book out, Five Cities Portfolio: Amman, Beirut, Cairo, Dubai, Istanbul, coinciding with a con...
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Nov 18
Salt Space / Biospeleology : The previous post reminded me of a news item reported roughly two weeks ago, that the town of Carlsbad, NM, is in danger of collapsing into the earth below due to the out-of-control dissolution of und...
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Nov 18
Quadraturin : A Soviet-era, Polish-born, Ukrainian-raised writer named Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky was the subject of a short profile and review over at The Nation last week....
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Nov 16
Electrical Folklore : [Image: Barry Underwood, courtesy of Johansson Projects]....
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Nov 15
Shelved in the Sky : I couldn't resist this photo of a man blown off his feet by high winds on the British coast.[Image: Photo by Steve Poole/Rex Features, via the Guardian].How could we take better spatial advanta...
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Nov 15
Messianic Urbanism : I mentioned Tom Zoellner's book Uranium the other day, in the context of atomic geology, but there is another brief comment in that book worth calling attention to here....
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Nov 13
The City and its Flooded Double : [Image: "Aqualta: 5th Avenue & 35th Street, NYC," by Studio Lindfors; view larger].Studio Lindfors—of Cloud Skippers and Cloud City fame—have released a stunning new series of images, pu...
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Nov 13
The Turbulence Biennial : While I'm on the subject of events, I'll be speaking at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design this coming Monday, November 16; I'm giving a talk called The Turbulence Biennial....
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Nov 12
World of Giving : Jeffrey Inaba and C-LAB will be hosting a book launch this evening—Thursday, November 12—at the New Museum in New York....
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Nov 10
Until Proven Safe: An Interview with Krista Maglen : [Image: Airfield at Guantanamo Bay converted for the quarantine of 10,000 Haitian migrants; via Wikimedia].Krista Maglen is Assistant Professor of History at Indiana University, where her research exp...
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Nov 10
Bomb Grid : [Image: The Key Lake uranium mine].I'm in the process of finishing Tom Zoellner's compulsively readable book Uranium, and I'm finding it extremely hard to put down....
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Nov 10
The Fourth Plinth: London Planetarium : [Image: London's Fourth Plinth, via Google Image search].In an odd coincidence with the previous post, I actually saw a show at the American Museum of Natural History's planetarium yesterday—an experi...
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Nov 9
Grilling Octopi in a Flooded New York : [Image: A flood strikes Manhattan; image via New York magazine]/.Jace Clayton, aka DJ /rupture, who is interviewed in The BLDGBLOG Book, has a new album out with Matt Shadetek—and he's s...
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Nov 8
Editing the Shadow Volume : [Image: The multiple-shadow casting cube by Niloy Mitra and Mark Pauly].Spotted via New Scientist is this amazing new computer model that allows designers to create objects based on the multipl...
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Nov 8
Landslide Dynamics : [Image: A diagram of landslide dynamics—how surfaces seek out and reassert equilibrium—courtesy of the UK Geological Society]....
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Nov 8
Of swarms, media, and design education : Architect and filmmaker Ed Keller has organized a fantastic day-long conference next weekend here in New York City about multi-agent systems, cities, swarms, media, hives, collectives, outbreaks, disr...
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Nov 8
1984–2001 : [Image: From 2001, directed by Stanley Kubrick].I'm participating in a panel discussion later today (Sunday), over in Brooklyn at a place called Smack Mellon....
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Nov 5
Words in Space : I'll be speaking tonight in Brooklyn, at the Pratt Institute of Architecture, in case anyone is around and up for an architecture talk. It starts at 6pm, and is free and open to the public....
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Nov 5
Aqueous : [Image: From Amphibious Architecture by The Living; photo by Chris Woebken].New York architects The Living, mentioned in an earlier post, have completed another recent project called Amphibi...
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Nov 5
Cliff House : I randomly came across this image, below, of Adolph Sutro's now-lost Cliff House, perched on the rocks outside San Francisco....
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Nov 2
A Million Years of Isolation: An Interview with Abraham Van Luik : [Image: Yucca Mountain, Nevada; courtesy of the U.S. Department of Energy].Abraham Van Luik is a geoscientist with the U.S....
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Nov 2
Sky Totem : [Image: From Living Light by The Living].Soo-in Yang and David Benjamin of New York's The Living have completed an interesting—and extremely beautiful—public project in Seoul, Korea....
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Nov 2
Ghostly : I spent Halloween afternoon over in New York's West Village, being given a tour of a gut-renovated townhouse by one of the home's owners....
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Oct 31
New Local Worlds in Section : [Image: "Moravian Mount" from New Local Zlín by Margaret Bursa].In a recent post I included an image from Margaret Bursa's project New Local NY, which she produced while a student at the...
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Oct 31
Mine / Stack / Vertigo : [Image: Michael Light, Bingham Pit photograph mounted and on display].A beautiful new book of photographs by Guggenheim Fellow Michael Light has been released....
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Oct 29
Who would want to be an architect? : "Who would want to be an architect?" the Times asks....
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Oct 27
Isolation or Quarantine: An Interview with Dr. Georges Benjamin : [Image: An emergency hospital ward in Kansas during the 1918 flu].Dr....
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Oct 27
Robotism, or: The Golden Arm of Architecture : For the past four weeks, an orange robotic arm has been constructing a brick wall in south Manhattan.[Image: Pike Loop by Gramazio & Kohler].Neither a new Berlin Wall nor part of a delayed real...
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Oct 27
100 : Even knowing how much it annoys certain people whenever I mention The BLDGBLOG Book on this website, I'm ridiculously excited—and admittedly quite stunned—to see that the book is #92 on Amazon....
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Oct 27
The Sphere and the Labyrinth : [Image: The cooling towers of the Ferrybridge power station; photographer unknown].The above photo has really stuck with me since seeing it last week over at Millennium People—not only its juxt...
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Oct 27
Fossil Reactors : There are as many as sixteen two-billion-year old nuclear reactors locked in the rocks beneath Gabon. Unsurprisingly, at that age, they are also completely natural....
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Oct 27
Subeconomic Space : [Image: Photo by Richard Mosse, from Time magazine].Photographer Richard Mosse, who BLDGBLOG has interviewed in the past and who is one of many participants in this autumn's "Landscapes of Quar...
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