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Design writer's diary: houses, a warehouse, a museum and an opera

Portland Architecture

Beaver Creek Cabin by Outside Architecture ( Shawn Records ). . I’ve decided to try a new series of monthly blog posts in which I talk about the different articles I’m writing, places I’ve visited, others’ work I might have read, and any other relevant info or stories I can come up with. BY BRIAN LIBBY. So here goes! Going Outside.

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When Eero Met His Match

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

When Eero Met His Match draws on the couple’s personal correspondence to reconstruct the early days of their thrilling courtship and traces Louchheim’s gradual takeover of Saarinen’s public narrative in the 1950s, the decade when his career soared to unprecedented heights. She lives in Brooklyn. When Eero Met His Match is no different.

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Snowtown Project creates graphics representing destroyed Black neighbourhood

Deezen

Students spent a semester in dedication to establishing modes of permanence for forgotten architectures by establishing this archive using traces of life such as newspaper articles and other found materials from the historic Providence, Rhode Island neighbourhood of Snowtown that was destroyed by a racist mob in 1831.

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Dezeen's policy on AI

Deezen

To round off our AItopia series exploring the impact of artificial intelligence on design, architecture and humanity, Dezeen editorial director Max Fraser sets out our policy on text- and image-generating technologies. Read: The Dezeen guide to AI Dezeen embraces new technology, and AI is no exception.

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"Deconstructivism started well over a century ago and still continues today"

Deezen

Deconstructivism existed long before the 1970s, writes architecture critic Joseph Giovannini, who wrote the book Architecture Unbound to tell the full history of the style, in this opinion piece as part of our series revisiting deconstructivism. . Architecture was not a machine for living in.

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Architects’ Claim to Storyteller Status

EntreArchitect

In the first article of this series, Architects as Storytellers we looked at the possible historical and etymological origins for why we call the levels of a building “stories.” The frieze was a narrative device to proclaim the honoree’s story. I believe we should embrace storytelling in the way it uniquely applies to architecture.

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The Black Designers Who Were Largely Overlooked by History

Dwell

For decades, Prempeh continues, "Black designers have been sheathed in an invisible cloak," erased from the narratives about design and creation, not just in fashion but also in architecture and graphic design. Often dubbed "the Rosa Parks of architecture," Sklarek designed the modernist U.S. Photo by Julius Shulman © J.

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