criticism and blogs
Tim Abrahams of Blueprint Magazine has popped off his twelve-gauge on architecture blogs, charging them with failing the project of architectural criticism through ‘nostalgia’ (that nasty bogeyman of...
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Additional responses to Abraham’s Blueprint screed: 1. Owen Hatherley at sit down man, you’re a bloody tragedy (who was named in said screed). 2. Infinite Thought gets at the heart of what is...
View Articleurban systems design and the architectural disciplines
You should read Adam Greenfield’s post “Towards Urban Systems Design”, which includes some response to my brief note on Dan Hill’s post at Towards the Sentient City. A couple items from Greenfield’s...
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the best architecture of the decade
[The Large Hadron Collider] The end of a decade inspires a lot of list compiling; in that spirit, mammoth offers an alternative list of the best architecture of the decade, concocted without any claim...
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While mammoth by no means aspires to fit within the category of architectural criticism (though we do occasionally have something to say about it), Nancy Levinson’s recent meta-criticism of the genre...
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bracket(s)
[An image from mammoth's contribution to Bracket 1: On Farming, "Hydrating Luanda".] Places excerpts a piece from the soon-to-be-published first volume of Bracket. In the excerpt, Mason White...
View Articleblueprint’s oddly misdirected second salvo
Not content with Tim Abrahams’ misdirected broadside against architecture blogs last spring — which badly missed its target by calling out the explicitly curatorial Things Magazine for failing the...
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winter hiatus
[Photograph by William Notman & Son, photographers, of a building encased in ice after a fire, 65–83 Little St. James Street, Montréal, Québec, 1888. From the collection of the Canadian Centre...
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behind the scenes
While there is a lot that has gone unfortunately unposted this summer (our drafts queue is more than a little bit out of control) — at least in part due to Rob’s failure to contain the floods series...
View Articlefecal matters
This week — really, we promise it will just be a week — we’ll be looking at landscapes of shit. We’ll take a guided tour of DC’s huge wastewater treatment plant, Blue Plains, we’ll have an excellent...
View Article“a map for what?”
Shannon Mattern, writing “about material networks that span continents… and the strategies we devise to comprehend their scale and composition”: What is the “aftermath” of the touring, the mapping, the...
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