Architecture
Where design comes from. The histories, philosophies and arguments behind the way buildings and interiors look.
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Why brutalism is beautiful: the ambition behind the concrete
Brutalism's beauty is honesty, not ugliness — from Goldfinger's London to Kahn's Dhaka parliament and Bo Bardi's São Paulo, the social ambition the concrete was built to carry.
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What mid-century modernism was actually for
The democratic design experiment that mostly worked. Not a style — an argument about how ordinary people should live.