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Opinion

Swimmin’ pools. [Architecture] stars.

by Tommy Manuel

If you had told me at the out­set of my archi­tec­ture education/career that I would one day be writ­ing about Brad Pitt on an archi­tec­ture blog, I would have sworn you had lost your mind.  And even now, despite that I have already typed the man’s name out and com­mit­ted him irrev­o­ca­bly to this post, […]

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Comment on: Slave City by Atelier Van Lieshout at ArchDaily

by Tommy Manuel

The fol­low­ing is a com­ment posted to an arti­cle at Arch­Daily, here.  I’m think­ing I may develop the ideas in my com­ment fur­ther on here, hence the post.  It also relates to other work I’m pur­su­ing in infra­struc­ture, here.

As art such as this goes, there’s obvi­ously a com­men­tary here on cur­rent trends in sus­tain­abil­ity, utopia, […]

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