PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY - STARRED REVIEW - “Martine’s soaring, crystalline prose evokes Shirley Jackson’s Hill House if designed by Frank Gehry. She builds a twisted cathedral of story and fills every inch with equal parts beauty and a creeping, inescapable sense of wrongness. Readers will be floored.”
New Topographics: photographs that find beauty in the banal
William Jenkins's 1975 exhibition rewrote the rules of landscape photography. Does it have the same impact today?
Playbooks — Renaissance Philanthropy – A brighter future for all through science, technology, and innovation
Christopher Alexander’s A Pattern Language defines 253 methods for constructing beautiful and practical designs at every scale, from cities to rooms.
A heartbreaking work of staggering genius
A book that redefines both family and narrative for the…
It’s go in horizontal by Leslie Scalapino | East Bay Booksellers
Internationally recognized as one of the most innovative writers in America today, Leslie Scalapino persistently challenges the boundaries of many forms in which she works—poetry, prose, plays, and more.
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How buildings learn : what happens after they're built
Originally published: New York, NY : Viking, 1994; Includes bibliographical references (p. 224-229) and index; Flow -- Shearing layers -- "Nobody cares what you do in there": the low road --- Houseproud: the high road -- Magazine architecture: no road -- Unreal estate -- Preservation: a quiet, populist, conservative, victorious revolution -- The romance of maintenance -- Vernacular: how buildings learn from each other -- Function melts form: satisficing home and office -- The scenario-buffered building -- Built for change -- Appendix: The study of buildings in time
My website is a shifting house ... | Laurel Schwulst
This is an adapted mirror of an essay which was originally commissioned and published for The Creative Independent ↗ on May 21, 2018.Since publishing, this essay has become required reading in many design syllabi worldwide and has been republished and translated into multiple languages.
A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas
The epic third novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling Court of Thorns and Roses series by Sar...
EP25: Writing, Fiction, and the Construction of Reality
Steve Newcomb and Peter d’Errico talk about their writing process, Peter’s new fiction on Substack, and the role of writing in the creation and construction of reality.
The End of Textuality - Real Housewives of San Francisco
Authenticity in the age of GenAI
The End of Textuality - Real Housewives of San Francisco
Authenticity in the age of GenAI
A collection of 1800s home designs with floor plans from one of my home library reference books, published in the mid 1880s.
2.2K votes, 138 comments. 1.2M subscribers in the centuryhomes community. Century Homes is a place for those that enjoy homes that have reached or…
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