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Retrofuturism forecloses the true potential of the world to come.
An atmosphere emerges of city life before its descent into the present monotony of glass façades and brushed steel.
His supreme, tweedy confidence was softened with a vulnerability and kind of underdog spirit.
If Sim City arguably inspired legions of thirtysomething urban planners, there’s a strong chance Manor Lords will make at least one good historian of the medieval peasantry.
Mapping Malcolm takes Harlem as a starting place for a global project of Black liberation.
Prior Art: Patents and the Nature of Invention in Architecture by Peter H. Christensen. MIT Press, 400 pp., $50.
Prior Art trades in architectural alembics: spaces that distill, refine, and elucidate Christensen’s crucial triad: “creativity, novelty, and property.”
What Design Can’t Do: Essays on Design and Disillusion by Silvio Lorusso. Set Margins’, 352 pp., $24.
Designers, Silvio Lorusso stresses, have not properly plumbed the depths of their own uselessness.
Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture by Kyle Chayka. Doubleday, 304 pp., $28.
Algorithms are more our mirrors than our captors.
The Architecture of Influence: The Myth of Originality in the Twentieth Century by Amanda Reeser Lawrence. University of Virginia Press, 280 pp., $50.
Is the myth of “pure originality” still a worthy target of criticism in 2024?
