Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky. Architektur. Politik. Geschlecht.: Neue Perspektiven auf Leben und Werk de
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Natália Peťková on Things I Don’t Want to Know, The Cost of Living & Real Estate
Deborah Levy is a British novelist, playwright and poet. She was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, the granddaughter of working-class Lithuanian Jewish immigrants on her paternal side and an upper-middle-class English family on her maternal side. Her father, Norman Levy, was a historian and a member of the African National Congress. He lived under a banning order from the Apartheid government from […]
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Architectural Criticism 1: Architecture X Nature
The history of architecture is intimately intertwined with how humans perceive and interact with nature. Much in the way that houses are built to protect us from a wild nature and windows are designed to bring elements of nature indoors, architecture has evolved in response to our relation to the natural world. However, nature is […]
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Alicia Ayla Yerebakan on The Living Mountain
One uses a word when describing the phenomenon of having experienced something in the past that is happening to the self in the now. It is called déjà vu. I have never been to Scotland nor its mountains, but as I read Nan Shepherd’s book, I strongly believe that I fell into this state of […]
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Metropolis Bookshop’s Sisters in Architecture
In November 2021, the editors at Women Writing Architecture wrote to Metropolis bookshop asking them whether they would be interested in contributing a collection to the annotated bibliography. The book buyer, Molly, wrote back with screenshots of their running list (so probably already transformed), explaining that these describe what we call ‘sisters in architecture’ These […]
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Hélène Solvay on Concert Hall Notebook 1951
In 1950, following her fourth year studying at the AA and prior to her final year of her degree, Jean Symons decided to consolidate the theory she had been taught during her education by engaging in practical ‘on site’ work. This took the form of a technical assistant position in the site office of the […]