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A Short Year Ago Today…
Yup, this is the official one year mark for Agents of Urbanism. Unfortunately, I have been a faint presence these days, but that is due in large part to the overwhelming success of this blog. However, this success may not be in line with the statistically defined measures of other blogs. The success of which [...]
Thresholds of Urban History
As I prepare for my course on the history of the city, I find myself asking, “when will this course require two semesters.” Architecture theory courses already spread across two semesters, but barely fit. Architectural history, for that matter, has three semesters of required knowledge – when will there be a fourth? If that wasn’t [...]
Not a New Year’s Resolution
Sparing you from my plans of weight loss and frugality, my first post in three months – and the first of 2009 – will aim to outline my efforts toward this blog over the next few months. Fortunately, one of the great things about a blog is that it can constantly reinvent itself.
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October Madness
If you live in New England, you always have leaf peeping to look forward to as we round the seasons and enter October. However, as the leaves intensify with color, the office intensifies with workload. Call it the end of year rush, but my projects always seem to be squeezing in a string of deadlines [...]
Louis Kahn’s Salk Institute
When great minds meet, you either see a comedy show of flying egos or genuine poetry. The latter should be used to describe such an occasion when Jonas Salk met Louis Kahn. At the time Salk asked Kahn to design a research laboratory “worthy of a visit by Picasso.”
What stands now is a place where [...]
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