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  • 'Gynaikeios anthropismos: Enas logos gia tin archi enos ergou' (Women's humanism: A speech on the beginning of a project).

    Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008

  • In 1950, he graduated from McGill with honours in archi tecture.

    Seeing Is Believing, The New Visual Environment 1967

  • Dawkins must think he's being clever in devising the "archi" vs "neo" distinction, but in the end he has to explain them both as

    Uncommon Descent 2009

  • Unfortunately I see more “Star Architects” discussing their social decorum and how their project are sustainable through the use of philosophical archi-marketing instead of actually evaluating the scale and quality of their building within the setting that it influences (home, neighbor, neighborhood, community, environment, and so on).

    Daniel Libeskind’s ‘Sustainable’ Prefab | Inhabitat 2009

  • I would like to see more projects at the grass roots level, where real people (not just the wildly expressive and well-recognized) and architects are developing methods and strategies that truly approach a firmer understanding of how to apply the standards, LEED and IBC, and create beautiful architecture without having to “fake it up” with all the additional archi-marketing.

    Daniel Libeskind’s ‘Sustainable’ Prefab | Inhabitat 2009

  • Penderecki: Quartetto per archi (Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne, 1963).

    Deep covers Matthew Guerrieri 2008

  • Penderecki: Quartetto per archi (Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne, 1963).

    Archive 2008-01-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008

  • Since tectonics is literally at the root of architecture (archi-tektonike), this dual mode of operation is also at the core of architecture.

    Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

  • His buildings were complex and controversial; his deeply thoughtful, experimental explorations of uncharted possibilities were meant to move archi tecture on, to turn modernism into something more humane, contextual and familiar that users could relate to and understand; his philosophy was constantly evolving, along with a highly personal, eclectic style.

    Postmodernism Ada Louise Huxtable 2010

  • Going through an archive of half-forgotten bookmarks, we discovered this FORGEMIND. archi.media article on Enric Miralles and Carme Pinós 'Igualada Cemetery located near Barcelona, Spain.

    Archive 2007-02-01 2007

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