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Monthly Archives: August 2011
Open Source Design
London’s design scene has been dominated by designers working with craft techniques such as knitting. This has led to a kind of fetishisation of the handmade, a strange pre-reccession moment when the market for one-off handmade design bizarrely fed into a … Continue reading
Posted in Design, Engineering
Tagged brackets, bruce mau, design, droog, eindhoven, grid, linux, open source, open structures, plates, thomas lommee, wikipedia
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Designing Trees: A Short Article Which Isn’t About The London Riots
I’m not one of those people who sees in every news event an architectural solution. Much of the rioting that is taking place in London, and particularly in my home borough Hackney can be put down to a combination of … Continue reading
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Standing in front of a bookcase, feeling baffled.
It would be fair to say that even amongst the librarians here there is a fair amount of amusement— or bewilderment— about the Norman D Stevens archive . Stevens is the retired director of university libraries at the University of Connecticut and, … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Media, Old Things, Publishing
Tagged alan bennett, andrew motion, castle park dean and hook, cyril connolly, david adjaye, geoff hook, harvard, horizon, hugh pearman, hull, karen coyle, library of congress, lrb, norman d. stevens, philip larkin, radcliffe camera, renata gutman, seattle public library, thomas jefferson, toads, university of virginia, veritas
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Taking Sinclair Personally
It is hard not to respond to Ghost Milk on a personal level. It is a book about the Olympic Games – an issue I am fascinated by – and its setting is Hackney – the place where I live. … Continue reading
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