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Life in Plastic: 8 Times Architects Rehabilitated the “World’s Most Hated Material”

Architizer

New this season, firms can gain recognition for their entire portfolio of work thanks to the addition of the new Best Firm categories celebrating practices of all sizes, geographies and specializations. Memes about plastic straws and turtles are not an uncommon sight when scrolling through social media. Image by Ashley Simone.

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The Aluminum Mountain | Wutopia Lab

ArchiDiaries

Excerpt: The Aluminum Mountain is an exhibition center designed by the architectural firm Wutopia Lab. The architect used the circle as his basic geometry in this design, based on Taoism and Taiji, as circles and cones were basic geometries to construct the mountain. Text as submitted by the Architects”). Project Description.

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The New Design Critics Next Door

Dwell

Are savvy shitposting, dick-joke discourse, and endless memes the future of how we understand architecture? Though he’d never made a meme before, on November 3, 2020, he pieced together a "starter pack" making fun of new vintage dealers who didn’t know what they were doing. Even better is when a post is controversial.

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Instagram account dank.lloyd.wright aims to "amplify narratives that are excluded from architecture's official consensus"

Deezen

Meme culture can be an important form of critical discourse in architecture and design , according to the anonymous satirical Instagram account @dank.lloyd.wright. That ranges from the most trivial issues ("Why do architects need to appear polite and humorless to be legitimate?") James Brillon: What was your best meme?

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Commenter calls The Colburn School extension "a love child of Gehry and Koolhaas"

Deezen

In this week's comments update , readers can't believe that plans to extend The Colburn School in Downtown Los Angeles were designed by architect Frank Gehry and are discussing other top stories. It's like the meme where people imagined we would all have flying cars in 2022", continued Roelv , "and instead we have Balldo.". "I

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