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MoMA: Neighbourhood Bully

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The ugly truth: the beauty of ugliness

31 January 2013 | By Stephen Bayley

The best-selling author of Ugly: The Aesthetics of Everything, sees ugliness as a necessary corrective that stimulates a deeper appreciation of beauty

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Interview: Hernan Diaz Alonso & Marcelo Spina

26 April 2013 | By Eric Owen Moss

The Dean of SCI-Arc Eric Owen Moss interviews Hernan Diaz Alonso and Marcelo Spina, two members of his faculty, about the fluctuating relationship between radical architecture and the tools that give it shape

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Editorial View: Architectural Representation

16 May 2013

Redefining the ambivalent relationship between architectural representation and content

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View from Istanbul

4 March 2013

Turkey’s booming economy is ripping out the cultural and historical heart of Istanbul, laments Selçuk Avci

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View from The Arctic

31 January 2013

With melting ice caps leading to potentially destructive oil and gas exploration in the far north, Matt Shaw and Will Trossel, the founders of ScanLAB projects, join Greenpeace on an Arctic expedition

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Michael Sorkin

Michael Sorkin

‘If we don’t make these changes we wind up as so many Canutes, bashing away at the relentlessly rising seas’

Farshid Moussavi

Farshid Moussavi

‘Competitions are driven by the desire to go beyond what already exists - unthought-of architecture’

Lesley Lokko

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‘For so long, the difficult, knotty question of identity has skirted around architecture’

William JR Curtis

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‘Architecture schools are only too often the victims of intellectual fashions’

Peter Cook

Peter Cook

‘At eye level, there is plenty to see and distract … but look upwards and the amnesia begins’

Ellis Woodman

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‘For architectural enthusiasts, the prospect of Belgium’s imminent belt-tightening represents particularly bleak news’

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Sanjeev Shankar

‘Big city architecture, which was once a great opportunity, has now reached a dangerous and tragic state of repetitive boredom’

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