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The Mint Situation, by Nathan Kramer.The Mint Situation. Words. Nathan Kramer. The following is a confession: I have developed a ‘thing’ for mint syrup. There are quite a bunch of those aluminium bottles with the greeny, gooey, sticky, funky fresh liquid staring at me from the fridge.…View →
I Feel Out of Place, by Tuyen Le.As empowering as the strength-based approach to design, the final renderings usually illustrate a sleek, mint condition, with neatly dressed figurines staged and posed to the architects’ liking.…View →
Six Sides Make a Home, by Ugne Koelewijn.‘Mine has high ceilings and. room for two cars.’ ‘Mine is stuccoed. masterfully, inside and out.’ ‘My cave is. air-conditioned, even!’. These six sides are my landmark. It’s coordinates I invite my friends with.…View →
Cheap Queens and Real Queens, by Minh Anh Nguyen.Minh Anh Nguyen. “I’m a cheap queen, I can be what you like” – King Princess (“Cheap Queen,” 2019). “Cheap queen” is a term that refers to a “queen” in drag who is resourceful, who can make something out of not very much.…View →
Where Earthquakes Come at Night, by Jonas Althuis.Kiruna's wooden Church, with Kiirunavaara, the mountain that houses the LKAB mine, in the distance. Photo by Jonas Althuis.…View →
Costa del Sprawl Pavilion - Estudio ESSE, by Sam Eadington.Told mum not to worry I’ll have a job very soon, fingers held behind my back as twisted as the truth, The world should be more grateful for a mind as great as mine, yet no one seems to give a shit about anything I design.…View →
Who do we Design For?, by Jan Pruszynski.I remember when, after the first year of my bachelor studies at the Warsaw University of Technology in Poland, I had decided to hitch-hike around western Europe with a friend of mine, Luke, who was a Medicine student.…View →
Escaping Efficiency Script, by Maja Liro and Saartje Nibbering.Be exposed to different tools, discover how you and your creative mind works. Because it’s different for different people, and I don’t understand when it’s being imposed in one way or another. It should never be.…View →
The Richness In Living Cheaply , by Daniel James Keeffe.I have lived in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam for 5 years now. Like all modern cities, it is inhabited by a co-existing range of social and economic classes.…View →
Blog: Dec 21, 2021With contributions from Vineet Dhall, Minh Anh Nguyen, Carmel Verhaeghe, Daniel James Keeffe, Ksenija Onufrijeva, this edition explores the many implications that the word "cheap" has. - The editorial team. ← Back to the blog overview. Links.…View →
What are you reading right now? The Zen of Climbing, by Casper van Engelenburg.“The Zen of Climbing” is a vividly written book that explains in a crystal-clear way how body and mind operate together. It should not be seen as a self-help book. “Everyone, it seems, is one the improvement train”.…View →
The daily digital life, by Robert van Overveld.The similarity is that they both have a body-mind problem. Watching porn is a great satisfaction to the mind for many people, but the body remains relatively inactivated.…View →
Architecture without Architects v2.0, by Zuza Sliwinska.Yet, we find our imagination limited to the confinements of engraved in mind, set of typologies. Despite the pragmatic rationale behind the forms and shapes of our buildings, we wonder: is there a space for more originality and one-of-a-kindness?…View →
Bnieuws edition 56/03. Published January 2023.It’s supposedly a moment in which we should inhale deeply and take a break in order to start anew, with a fresh mind, relieved from all the things that are holding us back.…View →
Take It Seriously, by Federico Ruiz.While standing in front of it, I couldn’t help but ask: what was going through the mind of the architect? I went to Wilfried van Winden, the author of this colossus, to try get an answer to this and other questions I had about his work.…View →
A Whiff Off ..., by Tuyen Le.Within our nasal cavity, the sensory cells respond to all types of odors, and associate them with the pieces of memories in our mind.…View →
Where the light is strong…, by Christopher Clarkson.Meanwhile, overlapping with this soliloquy of mine, is the jarring commentary of lyrics and melodies singing an all too joyful and now seemingly naïve tune of what home is, causing ironies and provoking memories of days and emotions passed but not quite…View →
Four paragraphs and an incipit on my last six months as a BK student, by Amina Chouairi.There, I would hear the morning birds, looking around in search for other lit up windows, like mine. In that place around me, I was simply looking for signs of a common ground. What if.…View →
Olympic Architects, by Edgars Jane.In totality, he imagined marrying the athletic with the aesthetic—to be educated in both body and mind; compete in sport rather than war.…View →
The Bitter the Better, by Zuza Sliwinska.However, the tradition of drinking leung cha as a common practice reflects awareness of local people about their surroundings, daily habits and how these affect the body and mind.…View →
Exploring Possibilities, by Jan Pruszyński.And those are just the first things that came to my mind. That broad expertise is part of what makes architecture so interesting but also so easy to branch out at any point.…View →
Language and Design Cognition: Toward a theory of Language Based Design, by Christopher Clarkson.This brings into mind Henri Magritte’s painting titled. The Treachery of Images. , in which a pipe is painted, and beneath it is written “Ceci n’est pas une pipe.”…View →