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Monthly Archives: April 2010
Not Learning From Learning From Las Vegas
The exhibition What We Learned at Yale and the 3-day symposium Architecture After Las Vegas prompted a predictable degree of puffery from those media-friendly, Po-Mo apologists over at FAT. Sean Griffiths review in Building Design was generally a list of … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture
Tagged Architecture, Dave Hickey, Las Vegas, Neon Boneyard, Scott Brown, Steve Wynn, Venturi
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A drop in the ocean
In July 2007, Hilary Clinton, then a candidate for US President proposed a no-flight zone over Darfur, to prevent the Sudanese government from bombing their own citizens. It was an attempt to call to a halt what has been described … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Engineering
Tagged africa, Architecture, Darfur, Sudan, Urbanism, water
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