New knowledge emerges out of lateral thinking and intuition, long-term preoccupations and unexpected turns, raw evidence, reality checks, and other motives.
Ants of The Prairie
How might urban architecture provide habitable (or, at least, non-lethal) conditions for birds, bats, and other wildlife?More
Lucy Pringle
Strange things often happen when I talk about crop circles. There's a sort of strange energy around and the most mysterious things happen. The most reliable technology fails.More
Terunobu Fujimori
Now, whatever you might say, The gods dwell in the streets.More
Herbert Marder
She was small and wiry, five feet two inches, thin as a rail but able to carry heavy loads and operate heavy machinery. Idleness was a deadly sin.More
Ellen R. Hartman
Predicting the locations of future sacred sites is a multi-phased process, the first step of which is to cast geomantic charts to determine whether such sites can be located and, if so, how many are possble.More
Eva Hagberg Fisher
Jonathan Solomon was like hey why don’t you write something for Forty-Five and I was like fine but can it be about naps and he was like yes and I was like okay fine.More
Alessandra Ponte
Such unanimous enthusiasm for a diagram, which appears magically to offer solutions to any sort of dilemma, raises at least some perplexity.More
Richard L Hindle
Among the more than 9 million U.S. patents granted since the Patent Act of 1790, a representational anomaly exists in which intellectual property and place converge in an evocative yet confounding hybrid at the interstices of technology and environment.More
David L Hays
What is essential knowledge for architecture, and how is that knowledge best obtained?More
Georges Teyssot
In his book Du mode d’existence des objets techniques (1958), the French philosopher Gilbert Simondon refers to “key points”—objects at once technical and aesthetic—structuring the territory [...].More
Chile, and in particular the Atacama Desert’s region, has been repeatedly labeled astronomy’s paradise.More
Charles Stankievech
“The centre cannot hold,” writes W. B. Yeats while reflecting on the spiritual ruins of World War I.More
Yusuke Obuchi
An arms race is on in the worlds of computation and architectural fabrication research.More
Catherine Seavitt Nordenson
Sometimes there is buried treasure in an archive, which for me might be defined as something that no one has really thought about or read in a long time but that perhaps should be re-read today.More
Keith Mitnick
Rainy Sea is a small piece of land located in the middle of a large river separating the United States and Canada.More
Benjamin Nicholson
When these two numbers are put together, people usually sit up and pay attention. More
Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen
This essay connects a material substance—plastic—to a particular kind of cognitive process—imagining. More
David Gissen
This work uses the increasing illegibility of a text set in black-letter to conceptually represent the experience of reading in a very dark space.More
Nora Wendl
This is the history of a woman and her glass house. It is as true an account as I can devise.More
Octavian Esanu
For some time I have been captivated by a form of writing that has been captivating my email inbox.More
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