Tag: Architectures

This is the most fascinating category and the one where I have received the most pushback: I have seen some design elements being defended as “mobility aid” or “privacy separator” (based on he theory that dividers encourage strangers to use a bench together). It is interestin...

In case you were wondering, as I sure was, Brutalism is a style of architecture characterised by minimalist constructions that showcase the raw materials used to make them. (The term 'Brutalism' comes from the French word 'brut', which means 'raw'.) When we got in touch wi...

Our minds extract and compress knowledge from the world, which we reuse to face other similar situations. One of the critical aspects of that process is that we don’t store all the details of the actual event: just the essential information that allows us to recreate it. What if you could u...