December 2011
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Dec 29th
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Dec 21st
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Dec 21st
Dec 21st
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Notes on Reinhold Martin's "Professional...
“Architecture and its Pasts” Symposium paper “There is only history, and that’s all… That’s all there is, period.” Historically inaccurate to think that digital is driving students and faculty away from history. Historians were quicker than architects in computing. Macy conferences in 1958 - Annalles historian Fernand Braudel (game theory and social...
Dec 17th
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Occupy Wall Street: What Happens Next?: Places:... →
New York City planning officials have focused on fetishized public space - the Highline, Brooklyn Bridge Park, Ground Zero - to “rebrand New York as a nexus of culture and capital” which blinds its citizens to the wave of privatization that has left its civic apparatus - schools, hospitals, social housing, etc - underfunded and decaying. On historical consciousness: “If there is...
Dec 10th
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Dec 2nd
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