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Be Naked, Be Healthy, Be Well, by Tuyen Le.The matter of beauty spans beyond our body to architecture, mimicking each other's lexicon of ratio, symmetry, proportion, and beauty.…View →
Where is..., by The Datum Collective.Below you will read some takes that depart from the questions of Where is. and speculate the essential questions of CARE, COLLECTIVE, and BEAUTY. Seven architects at SHoP Architects in New York signalled their agreement to unionise (2021).…View →
The Sweet Moment of Disbelief, by Saartje Nibbering.An embodiment of both tremendous beauty and fear.…View →
Bnieuws edition 56/03. Published January 2023.From the search of identity we move on to the matter of beauty. Saartje invites us to let go of control and the need to understand in order to experience true astonishment through our emotions (p.16).…View →
Magic / Tragic, by Joey Lageschaar.Saving Beauty. , 4. a sense that your body does not want the crossing to happen as you don't want to get lost. However, when you embrace the seemingly dangerous disorientation, the associative process of getting lost can become more comfortable.…View →
Bnieuws edition 58/01. Published November 2024.Whether you're drawn to the poetic reflections of Joey Lageschaar, the intricate urban layers of Hong Kong, or the haunting beauty of forgotten spaces, each piece offers a unique lens through which to appreciate the power of design.…View →
The Berlage Questionnaire: Francesca Torzo, by Maria Christopoulou and Georgia Katsi.You are surrounded by beauty and there is good food, plants grow, and that is gorgeous. Maybe trivial, but quality of life matters for me. The person you would like to invite to the dinner table. Fernando Távora. Your favorite indulgence. Dancing.…View →
Bnieuws edition 53/05. Published March 2020.Aside from a solitary figure roaming the hallway, it reminds of the scene from Sleeping Beauty - as if the building has been put to sleep. Despite this madness, the show must go on.…View →
Escaping Efficiency, by Maja Liro and Saartje Nibbering.But then you find beauty in the ways people use that space. Suddenly you see kids playing in the fountain and someone running along the water. It doesn’t really matter there is a small detail missing. Those moments change your perspective sometimes.…View →
Modernism's Secret in the East, by Badar Haq.Once at top, we were surrounded by the beauty of the nature God had created. Glancing towards an existence man had created from scratch, The city of Islamabad.…View →
The Archive, by Nathan Döding & Andre Joosse.One of the things I try to capture is the beauty of decay. The best is when the buildings still contain memories of the past, like old machines, or documents.” Nowadays his website attracts 100.000 visitors each month. Bathhouse No. 5. (1937-2012).…View →
Escaping Efficiency Script, by Maja Liro and Saartje Nibbering.RM: I’d agree with the latter, and I think that’s actually the beauty of academia. This is the time you’re being given tools and knowledge, but I really believe that the creative process of each mind can be different. There’s no rule.…View →
Titanium White, by Zuzanna Sliwinska.Seconds before the discovery of titanium white, millions of us, art laics, admired and nodded our heads in approval to the unspeakable beauty of the piece.…View →
The Art of the Commute, by Alessandro Rognoni.In their effort to bring space to the backdrop, making objects, and not architecture, appear distinctively, Noorda’s precise graphics provided a certain rhythm to underground movement, enhancing, rather than fracturing, the beauty of monotony and transit…View →
Calling it like it is, by Christopher Clarkson.Neither does functionality equate with beauty. So either I’m delusional, or architects seem to enjoy enslaving themselves to their profession because we lie to ourselves about what we are actually accomplishing with these romantic stories.…View →
The Society of Unveiling, by Maja Liro.Walter Benjamin wrote that ". the divine ground of the being of beauty lies in the secret. ." For Christo too, an object proves sublime when it exceeds any effort to picture it.…View →
The American Dream is hyper-real in Florida!, by Tuyen Le.To maintain its beauty, it has a pattern book that all homeowners in Celebration abide by.…View →
Unsophisticated Sophistication, by Jonas Althuis.The beauty of this is that it's all done through the same simple format of the meme; usually no more than a simple image with accompanying text.…View →
What if Vitruvius played Minecraft? First notes on gaming architecture as experimental design, by Bruno de Andrade.Buildings should always contain three aspects: beauty (. venustas. ), stability (. firmitas. ), and usefulness (. utilitas. ).…View →
The Art of Disconnect: A Manifesto for Inefficiency, by Jessica Kuurstra.Think about overrepresentation of white skin tones, beauty ideals and. underrepresentation of native cultures.…View →
Letting Go Of Enemies In Architecture, by Kevin Lai.And stare as long as sheep or cows; No time to see, when woods we pass, Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass; No time to see, in broad daylight, Streams full of stars, like skies at night; No time to turn at Beauty’s glance, And watch her feet, how…View →
Misleading Memories, by Ieva Davulyte .In figure 1, we can see how this type of architecture is all about architectural representation, while the representational value is totally dependent on the simplest, consumer-friendly beauty standards.…View →