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Anyone Can Build a House
The Segal method and the UK's self-build movement
In 1962, the German-born architect Walter Segal was living in…
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Long-form, original writing on the built environment.
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Déneigement Montreal
A peek into Montreal's mastery of snow
Before moving to Montreal in 2020, I had lived my whole…
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A Never Ending Grind
The mortar and pestle is one of the most common kitchen tools in the world, and one of the most…
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On Geofoam
Images from the 2014 construction of Maggie Daley Park in Chicago are something to behold. Where one might expect earthmoving…
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A Symbiotic Truce
On composites, crayfish, and reinforced concrete's tentative alkalinity.
For most of a red swamp crayfish’s life, cambarincola…
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Ise Jingu and the Pyramid of Enabling Technologies
Our buildings are often long lived things, capable of outlasting the society that produced them. The Egyptian Pyramids are still…
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Production Marks
Why are iPhone 5c cases, in all of their platonic perfection, covered with pencil marks?
My class on media archaeology…
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Building a Cathedral
Cathedrals are unfinished. It is just the nature of the beast.…
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Manufacturing's Giant Pool of Untapped Talent
Companies can solve their labor shortages by recruiting more women. But can they get (and keep) them on the shop…
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The Supply Chain Africa Needs
Comparing product development stories across the continent
At a conference in Nairobi two years ago, an engineer visiting from Rotterdam…
