The great libraries built in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries got something right that contemporary civic architecture has largely forgotten: the idea that a public building should signal, through its scale and quality, that the activity it houses matters…
The night market is a technology for converting public space into economic activity with minimal capital requirement. A vendor needs a folding table…
Japan has approximately one vending machine for every twenty-three people. The number is declining from its peak but remains high enough to…
Concrete is everywhere because it is cheap, plastic before it sets, and almost indestructible after. No other material combines those three…