Similar visions of school design travel the world at speed – with what effects?
Category: Architecture’s Self-Image
Interviews and Posts on what architecture does, how it’s seen or how it presents itself
Putting Children (and Values?) into Architectural Plans of Schools
Aldo van Eyck put children into his architectural drawings to influence ideas of schools. Can you add “values” too in this way?
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 as a Social Science?
Some ideas for seeing architecture as – amongst other things – a social science. Also a bit on why the social sciences seem to ignore architecture.
AR’s School Awards: will the interiors count? That’s where students spend their 13,585 school hours…
As the Architectural Review’s School Awards close, let’s hope the judges give due emphasis to the design of the interiors … More
“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 and Education 