Author: Marcus Trimble
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Modern Jackass
This week, This American Life looks at a problem that as architects we know all too well, people talking expertly on a subject they know nothing about. It’s so common, explains This American Life contributing editor Nancy Updike, that some friends of hers invented an imaginary magazine devoted to such blathering. It’s called “Modern…
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Deformation
“In front of me the instrument panel had been buckled inwards, cracking the clock and speedometer dials. Sitting here in this deformed cabin, filled with dust and damp carpeting, I tried to visualise myself at the moment of collision, the failure of the technical relationship between my own body, the assumptions of the skin, and…
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Data Collection Recap
For what it is worth, I am going to give Twitter another crack. So if that is your kind of thing, you can find me here. Also, we are on ffffound here. [And no, I don’t have any invites left…]
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Paul Pholeros awarded for work in Indigenous Communities
Paul Pholeros has been awarded the inaugural UIA Vassilis Sgoutas Prize which is awarded to architects “contributing in an efficient manner to the struggle against the misery of those living below the poverty line.” Pholeros worked in Utzon’s office in Sydney on the Opera House, and has spent much of his career following that time…
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Design Your Dwelling
Dwell mag and Google are running a competition to “Design Your Dwelling” using Sketchup.
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Liseberg’s Rainbow Ride Collapses
You might expect to find a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow and not bone fractures and shock but that is what 30 Scandinavians discovered when the Rainbow ride at Goteborg’s Liseberg theme park collapsed on Tuesday. IHT. GP Images.