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Learning from Logistics: How Networks Change Our Cities
Architecture has an on-again/off-again relationship with other disciplines when it comes to critical theory. Clare...
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Urban Design Thinking: A Conceptual Toolkit
The twenty-first century, or the “Century of the City,” involves rapid urbanization in ways that are divergent...
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Too Big: Rebuild by Design: A Transformative Approach to Climate Change
When Hurricane Sandy hit the New York and New Jersey coasts in October 2012, the region was immobilized for days....
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Thinking Machines: Art and Design in the Computer Age, 1959–1989: The Museum of Modern Art New York City November 13, 2017–April 8, 2018
The machine has been central to The Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition history since its founding. Exhibitions...
Thinking Machines: Art and Design in the Computer Age, 1959–1989: The Museum of Modern Art New York City November 13, 2017–April 8, 2018
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“Tall Wood Buildings: Design, Construction, and Performance” by Michael Green and Jim Taggart
The use of wood in the construction of multistory buildings is receiving increased attention at a time when our...
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Software: Tableau and Microsoft Power BI
Data literacy—the ability to generate, understand, and use data—is a central challenge of design education...
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“Radical Technologies” by Adam Greenfield
Adam Greenfield’s recent book prompts the recollection of Siegfried Giedion’s seminal work Mechanization Takes...
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The Measure of All Things: Toward an Architecture of Information
A famous medieval illumination depicts God as an architect, armed with a set of calipers, measuring the boundaries...
The Measure of All Things: Toward an Architecture of Information
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Model Perspectives: Structure, Architecture and Culture
An architect’s ability to be creative and to translate conceptual ideas into spatial and material intentions...
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Built to Grow: Blending Architecture and Biology
The emerging discipline of biomimetics converges biology, chemistry, and engineering to offer a scientific approach...