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Glenn Murcutt: Touch the Earth Lightly

Habitus Living

In 1941, he attended Manly Boy’s High School in Sydney before continuing to study architecture at the Sydney Technical College (now the TAFE New South Wales Sydney Institute). Glenn Murcutt: Spirit of Place primarily follows the completion of Murcutt’s ten-year project: The Australian Islamic Center in Newport, Melbourne.

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What to Get an Architect for Christmas [2018]

Life of an Architect

As I was reviewing my list with my wife, she informed me that slow cookers are old school and these days, the smart buy is on the “Instant Pot” I clearly took this as a challenge because I then spent the next hour reading articles comparing instant pot versus slow cookers.

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“Conundrum of architecture”

Architecture Here and There

For Thomas Jefferson, writing to the architect Henry Latrobe in 1812, the purpose of an American national style in architecture was not complicated. Presidents like Jefferson and Monroe added a modicum of Neo-Greek monumentality and Napoleonic chic to the feast, but every bit of it was solid, scholarly enlightenment classicism.