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Architecture
Space as sculpture. Buildings are frozen music, wrote Goethe. Explorations in architectural history, from sacred geometry to brutalist concrete, and the ethics of shaping the spaces where we live.
Tadao Ando: The Poetry of Concrete
Light, water, wind, and concrete. The self-taught Japanese master creates spaces for contemplation that feel both ancient and impossibly modern. The Church of the Light as spiritual architecture.
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Le Corbusier and the Machine for Living
The five points of architecture, Villa Savoie, Chandigarh. How one Swiss-French visionary defined modern architecture—and its contradictions.
Zaha Hadid's Impossible Curves
Before her, buildings had corners. The first woman to win the Pritzker Prize bent geometry itself, creating forms that seemed to defy physics.
Louis Kahn: Silence and Light
The Salk Institute, the Kimbell, the parliament at Dhaka. Kahn asked buildings what they wanted to be—and they answered.
Brutalism's Second Life
Once reviled, now revered. How Instagram and changing tastes rehabilitated the most divisive architectural movement. The Barbican, Habitat 67, and the beauty of raw concrete.
"Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light."
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