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The Baffler

—by BLDGBLOG / Tuesday, January 3, 2012

[Image: From "Baffles and Bastions: The Universal Features of Fortifications" by Lawrence H. Keeley, Marisa Fontana, and Russell Quick, courtesy of the Journal of Archaeologi…

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Detection Landscapes

—by BLDGBLOG / Wednesday, November 23, 2011

[Images: Botanical photogravures by Karl Blossfeldt].

I've been going through a lot of old files and papers recently, and I thus found a short piece I clipped from New Scientist fi…

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On the Beach

—by BLDGBLOG / Friday, September 23, 2011

I'm quite late hearing this for the first time, but I was thrilled to discover composer Pierre Sauvageot's Harmonic Fields project, a participatory landscape of wind-activated…

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Landform Building

—by BLDGBLOG / Monday, September 19, 2011

[Image: From Landform Building: Architecture's New Terrain, designed by Thumb Projects].

This evening, Saturday, September 17, down at the BMW Guggenheim Lab, Marc McQuade an…

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The Shape of War

—by BLDGBLOG / Monday, September 12, 2011

I'm excited to invite everyone to an evening at Studio-X NYC, with photographer Simon Norfolk and journalist Noah Shachtman, who will participate in two back-to-back live inter…

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Situationist Drawing Device

—by BLDGBLOG / Friday, July 15, 2011

[Image: The "Situationist Drawing Device" by Ji Soo Han and Paul Ornsby].

The "Situationist Drawing Device" is a backpack-sized mechanism for recording the experience of lands…

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Log

—by BLDGBLOG / Monday, July 4, 2011

[Image: Log Chop Bench by the Practice of Everyday Design].

For their project Log Chop Bench (2011), the Canadian design firm The Practice of Everyday Design used "a logger's brut…

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Books Received

—by BLDGBLOG / Thursday, March 17, 2011

[Image: Proposal for the Stockholm Public Library by Olivier Charles].

The "Books Received" series on BLDGBLOG continues apace, with short descriptions of interesting—but no…

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Weather Architects of the Year 2050 A.D.

—by BLDGBLOG / Thursday, March 10, 2011

[Image: "Whirlpool" (1973) by Dennis Oppenheim].

Artist Dennis Oppenheim's "Whirlpool" project, from the summer of 1973, sought to create an artificial tornado on the bed of a d…

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Computational Mythologies: An Interview with Zachary Mason

—by BLDGBLOG / Monday, February 21, 2011

[Image: "Homer, the Classic Poets," by Gustave Doré, from Canto IV of The Inferno].

Novelist Zachary Mason's Lost Books of the Odyssey has been described by The New York Times as "d…

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Ground TV

—by BLDGBLOG / Wednesday, January 12, 2011

[Image: An otherwise unrelated temple complex in Indonesia].

"Hardened lava from Indonesia’s Mount Merapi covers ancient temples in the historic city of Yogyakarta," Archaeo…

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Landscape Futures Super-Workshop

—by BLDGBLOG / Wednesday, January 12, 2011

[Image: ”Retreating Village” by Smout Allen, a mobile settlement for a collapsing landscape].

For the past few months, I have been working behind the scenes here on something tha…

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