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Culture	How Fish Markets Transformed London’s Architectural Identity London’s bustling fish trade left an indelible mark on the city’s built environment. André Tavares \| Nov 12
Culture	The Tyranny of the Template: The Graphic Design of the First Edition of ‘Learning From Las Vegas’ Pioneering architect and urban planner Denise Scott Brown looks back at the creative battle behind a book that redefined architectural thinking. Denise Scott Brown \| Jun 26
Culture	Moshe Safdie: My Steps and Gardens and Bees Architect Moshe Safdie describes how his boyhood fascination with steps, terraces, and the wax hexagons of beehives led him to a life immersed in the complexities of design. Moshe Safdie \| Jun 24
Culture	Remembering My Friend Jean-Louis Cohen Thomas Weaver, Senior Acquisitions Editor for Art and Architecture at the MIT Press, reflects on the life and legacy of Jean-Louis Cohen, a hugely influential French architectural historian, curator, writer, and teacher, who died in August. Thomas Weaver \| Dec 2, 2023
Culture	Inside the Lizard Tree Library at Slab City Books in Slab City provide valuable footholds out here in the desert on the edge of society. Charlie Hailey \| Oct 16, 2023
Culture	Piranesi, Borges, and the Labyrinths of Time Jorge Luis Borges was deeply inspired by the work of Giovanni Battista Piranesi, whose prints of imaginary prisons and palaces captured the Argentinian author's imagination. Victor Plahte Tschudi \| Jul 20, 2023
Culture	The Medieval Origins of Architectural Drawing In 12th-century Paris, a Scottish monk wrote a biblical commentary and inadvertently invented architectural drawing as we know it. Karl Kinsella \| Jun 12, 2023
Culture	A Sentimental Autobiography of a Holiday Home Built in the North of Sardinia in the 1960s "Usually, those who do seem to understand the essence of the house begin to behave a little strangely, as if they were under its spell." Sebastiano Brandolini \| Apr 24, 2023
Culture	Tokyoids: The Aesthetics of Dismemberment in Japan Pain is integral to the structure of the Japanese language, and related to the particularity of local building design practices. François Blanciak \| Mar 23, 2023
Environment	Lessons From an Architect in a Time of Crisis Green architecture can solve the climate change problem, but only once it stops creating new ones. Eric Cesal \| Nov 7, 2022