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“Pragmatic Architecture”, in book form

For a couple of years now, I’ve been going around the world and giving a talk entitled “Pragmatic Architecture”, talking both about what architecture is (and what architects really do), and ending the ...
ArchDaily

Expanding the Architectural Prospects of Timber in Its Natural Form

Timber has been a popular source of construction material for thousands of years. Through sawing, milling, and other engineered wood conversion processes, various wood forms have been created and ...
Architectural Record

In the Cause of Architecture, II: “Style, therefore, will be the man, it is his. Let his forms alone.”

The sins of the Architect are permanent sins. To promote good work it is necessary to characterize bad work as bad. Half-baked, imitative designs- fictitious semblances – pretentiously put forward in ...
ArchDaily

Architecture as Soft Power: Cultural Diplomacy and Its Role in Shaping Architectural Production

Examine the evolution of architecture in cultural diplomacy, revealing its role in shaping international relations and ...
The New York Times

To Hélène Binet, Photographing Architecture Is ‘a Form of Art’

A favorite of the architect Zaha Hadid, Ms. Binet is the subject of a solo exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts. By Farah Nayeri LONDON — When Zaha Hadid’s first building was under construction in ...