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PLATFORM @PLATFORM__space

A digital forum for conversations about buildings, spaces, and landscapes.

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Platform has migrated over to Bluesky. Follow us there for more provocative and timely conversations on the built environment! bsky.app/profile/platformspa…
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PLATFORM has migrated over to Bluesky. Follow us there at @PLATFORMspace for provocative, timely, and diverse conversations on the built environment!
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NEW: Fernando Luiz Lara argues that we use spatial concepts from across the Atlantic to analyze our places. He thus proposes a set of new concepts - counterweights to 5 centuries of Eurocentrism - in search of an Architectural Theories for the Americas. platformspace.net/home/conne…

PLATFORM: Connecting the Dots: Reframing the History of the Built Environment of the Americas

When I presented my forthcoming book “ Spatial Theories for the Americas: Counterweights to Five Centuries of Eurocentrism ” last month at the University of Pennsylvania Center for Latin American and...

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NEW: When working on their homes, many architects refer to Youtube tutorials because they are under-equipped with practical wisdom. In his article, Adam Sharr explores the ways that "building explainers" disrupt & extend relations between labor and design. platformspace.net/home/labor…

PLATFORM: Labor, Production, and Value in YouTube Building Explainers

Architects Also Do D.I.Y. When architects labor on our own homes, our professional training is a mixed blessing. We’re likely to overthink the context of a task, equipped with just enough understan...

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Architects have long taken an interest in vernacular buildings. Yet this wasn’t always so. Nikos Magouliotis shows that to be seen as an object of architectural study, the peasant’s house had to be disassociated from the popular culture that produced it. platformspace.net/home/the-d…

PLATFORM: The Disenchantment of the Vernacular: Architectural Representation from the Witch-Hunt to...

Sometime between 1510 and 1515, Hieronymous Bosch (or someone in his workshop) painted a version of The Temptations of Saint Anthony Abbot which is currently in the collection of the Prado Museum...

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This week: Katie Lloyd Thomas reflects her career. From organizing conferences on feminism & architecture to helping establish the field of #productionstudies, Thomas has provided a model for building robust academic networks driven by shared passions. platformspace.net/home/why-i…

PLATFORM: Why I Give Papers at Conferences

For Julia (1953-2020) Earlier this year my colleague Zeynep Kezer asked me to contribute a few helpful words about networking to a session of ‘PGR Fridays’, a regular session she runs for postgradu...

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This week, Ben Jameson-Ellsmore reflects on Gov. Gavin Newsom's #executiveorder to remove homeless camps on state land. He shows that discomfort with the unhoused is not the problem, but rather is an outgrowth of historically situated systemic issues.platformspace.net/home/the-h…

PLATFORM: The Housing Crisis and Newsomville 2024

On July 25, 2024, Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom issued Executive Order N-1-24 , directing the removal of all homeless encampments on California state land and pressuring municipalities to follow...

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This wk, Andrew Shanken examines scrapbooks that American women created during #worldwar2 to collect ideas for their postwar home. These folios are part of a wider tradition of pattern books & allowed women to participate in a field long resistant to them. platformspace.net/home/homin…

PLATFORM: Homing Devices: Women’s Home Planning Scrapbooks, 1920s—1950s

It’s 1943, and your husband has just gone off to war, leaving you on the homefront with two children, a new job in a munitions factory, and a run-down rental house with a peeling paintjob from 1929...

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Today is PLATFORM’s fifth anniversary! To celebrate we’re honoring our three top articles (by page views) from each year. Check out the link below to see the list. #anniversary #architecturepublication #journal #architecture #landscapes #builtenvironment platformspace.net/home/five-…

PLATFORM: Five Years of PLATFORM

Today is PLATFORM’s fifth anniversary. After more than a year of planning, we launched on June 24, 2019 with our first five articles. Our aim was to run the site for one year as an experiment. Was...

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Matthew Stewart explores the role of writing in contemporary architectural practice. Much design software & AI tools require text prompts to function. What does this mean for the field as a whole? Has writing in architecture become overly stunted? platformspace.net/home/text-…

PLATFORM: Text Prompt: On the Peculiarities of Writing as Technique

Writing occupies a strange place in contemporary cultures. Early predictions by media philosophers like Marshall McLuhan that writing would disappear to be replaced by a purely visual culture feel...

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How does science serve the objectives of built heritage conservation? In this week's post (Pt 4 of Preservation Futures) Penn faculty Frank G. Matero convenes a roundtable to interrogate the role of science in shaping built heritage conservation. platformspace.net/home/prese…

PLATFORM: Preservation Futures: Science

This article is the last in a four-part series. Follow the links to read part 1 , part 2 , and part 3 . Architectural conservation is dedicated to the proposition that the tangible matters. Scholars...

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This week, Mira Waits discusses the fascinations that prison museums hold for many people. What, she wonders, are the consequences of these museums? Do they end up affirming mass incarceration? platformspace.net/home/the-p…
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Under our new section Speculations is Pt 1 of a 2-pt series by Nabil Haque & Reem Nassour, where they address the endemic issue of gang violence & natural disasters at the Rohingya Refugee Camps in Bangladesh & propose ways of designing relief structures. platformspace.net/home/the-l…

PLATFORM: "The Lost Generation": Trauma and Rehabilitation Cyclone Shelter, Part 1

Who are “The Lost Generation”? Since 2017, the Kutupalong refugee camp, located 2.3 miles from the shores of Cox’s Bazaar, has grown from a temporary settlement of 34,000 to a city of 1.2 million...

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This week, Emily Leifer interprets Maria Nordman’s art through Richard Neutra’s design. Neutra believed that human perception & the natural world were the foundation of good design; these tenets were central to Nordman’s 1973 exhibition at UC Irvine. platformspace.net/home/the-n…

PLATFORM: The Nature of Perception: Richard Neutra and Maria Nordman

Toward the end of his life, architect Richard Neutra sought to collect his remaining unpublished thoughts in a final volume. He placed a newspaper advertisement for an editorial assistant to aid in...

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Are preservation design practices evolving fast enough to address today’s challenges? Up today is Pt. 3 of Preservation Futures, a series of roundtables at @WeitzmanSchool interrogating the future of historic preservation. @KIERANTMBERLK platformspace.net/home/prese…

PLATFORM: Preservation Futures: Design

This is the third in a series of four articles. Follow the links for Part 1 and Part 2. Design is fundamental to the connections historic preservation establishes with the public in the physical...

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Alice Y. Tseng examines Tokyo through the lens of @wimwenders film Perfect Days. From Shibuya, with its designer facilities of @thetokyotoilet, to Sumida, the homey neighborhood with a public bathhouse, the film is a fiction of Tokyo devoid of grime. platformspace.net/home/tokyo…

PLATFORM: Tokyo Stealth Wealth: Designer Toilets and Manmade Forests in Perfect Days

There are many reasons to expect the film Perfect Days to say something original and inspired about Japan. The product of German director Wim Wenders and Japanese actor Kōji Yakusho , both stars of...

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Nawruz Mubarak! Nawruz (Persian New Year) is celebrated across Asia. At PLATFORM we’re pleased that the geographic scope of our publications allows us to share a sampling of essays from some of the countries where the celebration is popular. platformspace.net/home/welco…

PLATFORM: Welcoming Spring

The Spring Equinox arrives next week, and the Northern Hemisphere begins to awaken to birdsong and warming dawns.  The earliest recorded instances of Nawruz, also known as the Persian New Year, are...

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This week, Ahmad Yengimolki examines the murals in Vank Cathedral in #Isfahan. Funded by Armenians after their forced relocation to Iran in the 1600s, the cathedral features striking paintings whose composition reflect inspiration from other cultures. platformspace.net/home/artis…

PLATFORM: Artistic Fusion in Isfahan: The Evolution of Armenian Murals in Vank Cathedral

Heavy taxes of the Ottoman government, religious conflicts, and successive wars between the Safavids and the Ottomans led to the first wave of Armenian migration in 1586 to Isfahan, although, some...

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Up now: Pt 2 of 4 articles on conversations at @WeitzmanSchool on relationship between preservation & history. Francesca Russello Ammon & Sarah Lopez gathered Aaron Wunsch, Elihu Rubin, & Jared Farmer to explore avenues for historians to serve the public.platformspace.net/home/prese…

PLATFORM: Preservation Futures: History

This article is the second in a four-part series. Follow the link to read Part 1 . At a moment when history has come under increased public scrutiny, what opportunities are there for leveraging and...

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Proponents of laws legalizing accessory dwelling units (ADUs) claim these policies increase housing supply & affordability. But how well do they work? Rebecca Summer @rebeccaa_summer argues that to find out, we should look to existing (unpermitted) ADUs. platformspace.net/home/the-i…
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