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Thomas Heatherwick's Humanise campaign creates "boring alter-egos" of UK landmarks

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Created to demonstrate how UK landmarks would look if designed in modernist styles, the agency used artificial intelligence to reimagine the landmarks. Using artificial intelligence, fed with 75 years of soulless development data, UnLandmarks reimagines Britain's most beloved buildings through the eyes of its most boring architectural trends."

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Building Ideas: Haus Wittgenstein is a Philosophical Exploration of Modernist Architecture’s Essence

Architizer

One, what were this guy’s philosophical ideas? After reading Russell’s Principia Mathematica , he experienced what he described as a “constant, indescribable, almost pathological state of agitation.” Plug in to the latest design discussions by subscribing. On a recent episode of the podcast Why Theory?

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We Read Midcentury Playboy for the Articles—on Modern Design

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But the reason driving that covetable status is probably different from what you think. furniture design today," begins the article by John Anderson, a longtime writer for the magazine. In the decades since its release, Playboy ’s July 1961 issue has become somewhat of a collectible.

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Professor Curl’s revenge

Architecture Here and There

Stevens Curl archive) Since the publication of his masterly evisceration of modernist architecture in 2018, Making Dystopia: The Strange Rise and Survival of Architectural Barbarism , James Stevens Curl has been attacked relentlessly by the British architectural establishment. Sibyl Moholy-Nagy as actress in Weimar.

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Orr’s gateway to heaven

Architecture Here and There

I closely peruse all of the lush and colorful adverts for architectural services and crafted ornament. And the feature articles are a marvel to behold. A good example is the article by Nancy Ruhling about a garden gate designed by New Haven architect Robert Orr. The garden was designed by Robert’s wife, Carol Orr.

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The Black Designers Who Were Largely Overlooked by History

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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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Imagine reimagining Capri!

Architecture Here and There

Aaron Betsky, long the essayist of Architect magazine, remains on top of his game at gaming the future of architecture. What I really enjoyed was how his workshop’s “participants immersed themselves in life on Capri in May and then discovered Midjourney.” Architect). ” That is Betsky’s summary of his goal.

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