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Posts and Interviews about the relationship between Architecture and the words used to discuss it

Education in the time of Covid-19: who gets to decide and when? A call for increased participation in the design and adaptation of education and schools

This is a guest post by Dr Tom Bellfield, a part 2 architectural assistant at SCABAL, an architecture practice specialising … More

A photograph of the university halls of residence, Collegio del Colle, in Urbino, Italy designed by the architect Giancarlo De Carlo. Photograph by Cesare Colombo.

A Useful Definition of Architecture

What is architecture? A helpful definition by Giancarlo De Carlo clarifies what architecture is and who’s involved.

definition of architecture, Giancarlo De Carlo, school architecture, What is architecture?

On Forgetting: Some Similarities between Architecture and Social Media

Architecture and social media share a way of being understood as neutral things – their social production being obscured.

architecture and social media, spaces and politics
An image from Ngram Viewer showing relative trends in the words 'education' and 'learning' between 1800 and 2008

The Changing Vocabulary of Education and its Spaces

A post exploring changes in the words used to talk about education e.g. the shift from “classroom” to “learning space”.

architecture and language, classrooms, learning spaces, new language of learning

Making Spaces, Forgetting Politics

Walls* are breaks (Vesely, 2013). They break into established categories of meaning and space and make new ones. They do … More

classifying by space, classrooms, learning spaces, school space, spaces and politics
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“Zigzag, white, no life”: a Martian’s View of Architecture

Our interactions with Google search results appear to contribute to the fetishization of Architecture as big white ribbed structures. This post explores why.

architecture, architecture and people, asocial architecture, wacky architecture

Open Space Good, Closed Space Bad? Problems with Architecture and Language

In which Marie, a 12-year-old student, explains how large, open-plan spaces feel claustrophobic.

architecture and language, classrooms, open learning spaces

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