Charting the rise of asceticism in early Christianity and its institutionalisation with the medieval monasteries, Pier Vittorio Aureli examines how the basic unit of the reclusive life - the monk's cell - becomes the foundation of private property. And from there, he argues, it all starts to go wrong.

Less is Enough: On Architecture and Asceticism

Arts & Photography

Pier Vittorio Aureli

History & Criticism

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Across the Plaza: The Public Voids of the Post Soviet City

Owen Hatherley

In this short book, Dan Hill outlines a new vocabulary of design, one that needs to be smuggled into the upper echelons of power. He asserts that, increasingly, effective design means engaging with the messy politics - the dark matter" - taking place above the designer's head."

Dark Matter and Trojan Horses: A Strategic Design Vocabulary

Dan Hill

Ours is a landscape of cover versions, copy and paste, rinse and repeat. In this polemical essay, Sam Jacob probes the architectural condition and wonders whether it's all just an attempt to make what's not real look real.

Make it Real: Architecture as Enactment

Sam Jacob

On their bland campuses, the likes of Apple, Google and Facebook dominate the world, removed from the mess and the prying eyes of the real city. Alexandra Lange's investigates the private towns of Silicon Valley and seeks to discover what they says about the companies we think we know.

The Dot-Com City: Silicon Valley Urbanism

Alexandra Lange

In a world where there is no alternative", how do you dissent? Today, protest has new strategies. Enter the internet meme. Jokes are an open-source weapon of politics, and it is time to tap their power."

Can Jokes Bring Down Governments?: Memes, Design and Politics

Metahaven

In this groundbreaking essay, Eyal and Ines Weizman explore the history of the before-and-after image, from its origins in 19th-century Paris to today's satellite surveillance.

Before and After: Documenting the Architecture of Disaster

Eyal & Ines Weizman

Scarcity pervades political discourse; it shapes our reading of the economy and the environment. But it is not just the inevitable result of growth and resource exploitation. Scarcity is constructed daily through the creation of desire - it is designed.

The Design of Scarcity

Michael Klein, Jon Goodbun Andreas Rumpfhuber, Jeremy Till

Architecture

The Epic Struggle for the Internet of Things

bruce-sterling

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