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Tonight, Peter Eisenman on David Letterman!

by Tommy Manuel

I’ve been study­ing for the LEED AP exam, watch­ing the con­tin­u­ous stream of dire eco­nomic news, and catch­ing up on the lat­est aca­d­e­mic lec­tures at GSAPP. What do the all these have in com­mon?  I came across an arti­cle by Frances Ander­ton titled “Excess” ver­sus “Rel­e­vance” is an Irrel­e­vant Debate that helped to direct these […]

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Koolhaas on Dubai

by Tommy Manuel

Saw this blog on Kool­haas’ posi­tion on Dubai’s con­tin­ued via­bil­ity.
My com­ment below.
Cer­tainly Dubai’s demise isn’t likely to occur with any final­ity. The debate, mainly eco­nomic in nature, should take into greater con­sid­er­a­tion those issues Rory makes at the end of his post. I must admit that I’m a bit skep­ti­cal in regards to this actu­ally hap­pen­ing. What would […]

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