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blog wunderlust: 16th December 2013

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architects should reclaim a sense of naivety in design practice
Mark Wigley

What Will Be Mandela’s Spatial Legacy? | Should architects design housing that is bespoke, made to measure or off the rack? | Shipping Containers Make for an Unusual Home | 12 Amazingly Creative Examples of Environmental Art | In Photos: The Last Days Of Three Paul Rudolph Houses | America Could End Homelessness in One Year by Doing This | FAT Announces The End of Its Practice | Architect Says FIFA Construction Headed for Trouble

last word: The Bonanza

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blog wunderlust: 9th December 2013

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Architecture is exposed to life. If its body is sensitive enough it can assume a quality that bears witness to past life.
Peter Zumthor

Swiss superstars of architecture | Frank Gehry’s Grand vision to go before project committee | Lucid Stead: a mirage cabin made of mirrors | 100 Iconic Landmarks reduced to their negative space | Mockery of Kanye West’s design ambition is “racist” says African-American activist | A tower that looks like it’s built out of waterfalls | Entire New 13-Story Building Tips Over in Shanghai | The 12 Days of Architecture

last word: The Trinidad Arcade

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blog wunderlust: 18th November 2013

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I’m a passionate architect… I do not work for money
Peter Zumthor

Architect David Adjaye’s World View | Frank Lloyd Wright Building from 1939 Finally Built | Architects Bring Sunshine Into Nanotech Labs | Architects behind the starchitects | Link the City to Nature | 5 Women Who Are Changing The Face Of Architecture | Tracing traditions of art and architecture | Architecture: Across the U.S., the box is back in museum design

last word: [Jamaican] Govt to Make Rainwater Harvesting Mandatory for Housing Projects

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blog wunderlust: 14th October 2013

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Architecture is a political act. It’s an honor to serve and to represent the industry.
Cameron Sinclair
(c) Annabel Tarrant

Controversy builds as footage emerges of ‘completed’ Sagrada Familia in Barcelona | Japanese architects rally against Zaha Hadid’s 2020 Olympic Stadium | San Francisco Architect: Better Bike Lanes = Higher Land Value | Drive-In Theatre made of wrecked cars has screen built from salvage wood | Stay in a classic dorm at the Bauhaus, tuition-free | For Sale at $50M: Bob Hope’s John Lautner designed Mansion

last word: 12 Great Forts in the Caribbean

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blog wunderlust: 11th November 2013

Foamboards
I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It’s about space and form and it’s something you can share with other people.
Donna Karan

(c) Trevor Watson

Sleeping Like A Bauhäusler | 7 Architects On How To Design For Disaster | World Famous Architects Design Bus Stops for Tiny Austrian Village | We Asked Three World-Class Architects to Go Crazy With LEGO | Deconstruction versus Demolition | Daniel Libeskind Is No Architect | At Just 4ft across, this home is a tight squeeze | This Impeccably Designed $20,000 House Could Soon Be Yours

last word: Restoring the railway station

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