Miautics

From LLMs to world models. An essay by @zercastel.bsky.social Blog.miautics.com

Anarchitecture After Everything A Trans Manifesto by Jack Halberstam. A revolutionary way of seeing bodies and built environment that unites radical politics and trans aesthetics. @mitpress.bsky.social

Culture Class: Art, Creativity, Urbanism, Part I - Notes - @e-flux

LECTURE: Queering Urbanism: Insurgent Spaces in the Fight for Justice. By Stathis Yeros. Rethinking cities through the spatial histories of LGBTQ+ communities. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cB37...

LECTURE: Extra/ordinary Urbanism: Centrality Periphery, and The Spaces Between. How inequality, infrastructure, housing, and mobility emerge through relations between people, policy, and the built environment. www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7NK...

Antifascist Architecture By Andrew Santa Lucia, Daniel Jonas Roche. The first attempt at creating a working definition of antifascist architecture after academia has spent decades fetishizing fascist architecture. www.park-books.com/en/product/a...

The Wesley House: A Home, A Landmark, A Legacy. Iker Gil writes about the home that the late Robert L. Wesley designed for his family and shares memories of the two families that have inhabited it. via mascontext.com

Frank Gehry: Between Form and Ambition by Julian Rose via Artforum www.artforum.com/features/fra...

Informational Peripheries Rethinking the urban in a digital age Ayona Datta (Editor), Fenna Imara Hoefsloot (Editor) To understand the uneven, fragmented and disconnected geographies of urban peripheries in the Global South. uclpress.co.uk/book/informa...

Architecture Against Architecture: A Manifesto by Reinier De Graaf A fourteen-point manifesto to bring architecture into the twenty-first century www.versobooks.com/products/332...

LECTURE: Brutalism and the Transformed City - British Architectural Library Trust www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9ED...

LECTURE: Pierre Chevremont, Can machines 'think' architecture- Center for Augmented Computational Design in AEC www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8cb...

LECTURE: Bill McKibben “A Fresh Start for Our Cities” www.gsd.harvard.edu/event/a-fres... Mar. 26, 2026 6:30 – 8 p.m. EDT Free and open to the public and streamed.

LECTURE: Marina Otero Verzier “Feral Clouds” on architectures and politics of data processing and storage Mar. 9, 2026 6:30 – 8 p.m. EDT and streamed. Free and open to the public www.gsd.harvard.edu/event/feral-...

Cities and offices “for people”: How Google is building a prototype campus for a platform world. By Katja Schwaller of Stanford. Exoanding the campus beyond the limits, but not too much. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

LECTURE: Momoyo Kaijima, Izzy Kornblatt, and Joan Ockman: The Architect as Photographer at Yale School of Architecture About the "Encounters: Denise Scott Brown Photographs" exhibition, on view at the School. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5E2A...

Reading MASP as a Work of Urban Design-architect and urbanist Judith K. De Jong positions the Museu de Arte São Paulo (MASP) as a deeply contextual work of urban design as part of the evolution of Avenida Paulista.

Architecture as Environmental Media Rendering the Planetary Edited By Daniel Jacobs www.routledge.com/Architecture...

PODCAST: Beyond Neoliberal Urbanism urbanpolitical.podigee.io/103-beyond-n...

Image, screen, projection: Conceptualising the urban (imaginary) in digital visual culture By Gillian Rose, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Can Architectural Desire Pulsate? Urban Laws and Rules of New Babylon as a Sympoietic City Abdullah Yasin Dündar Delft University of Technology

PODCAST: Life Underground. Encounters with People Below the Streets of New York by Terry Williams. People who live in the tunnels, and life on the margins and out of sight @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social newbooksnetwork.com/life-undergr...

PODCAST The Anti-Dystopians "We Cannot Rely on Five Nerds": AI Urbanism from Amazon Go to Tech Sovereignty shows.acast.com/the-anti-dys...

WEBINAR: Barcelona 2051 City Futures for a Warming Planet. By IAAC www.youtube.com/watch?v=my5-...

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PODCAST: What is the real importance of understanding architectural history, and how is its teaching different from the histories of other disciplines? Witold Rybczynski is an emeritus professor in the Weitzman School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania. Unsiloed podcast.

Altarpiece, by Hilma af Klint, 1907

Gentrification, short-term rentals, and housing rights: Legal intricacies and policy limitations in Buenos Aires and Barcelona by Mauro Cristeche+Isabelle Anguelovski. Securing affordable housing amid tourism-driven gentrification. @tandfonline.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

THE ARCHITECT AND THE ANIMAL Ed. by Kostas Tsiambaos How animal references and representations have found their space in twentieth-century architecture. @mitpress.bsky.social mitpress.mit.edu/978026204969...

The Architecture of Resonance From Objects to Interactions By Sarah Robinson Away from buildings as objects towards an architecture of relations, www.routledge.com/The-Architec...

Magic Architecture The Story of Human Housing by Frederick Kiesler The first publication of artist and architect Frederick Kiesler's epoch-spanning history of human architecture, largely unknown but still relevant. via @mitpress.bsky.social mitpress.mit.edu/978026204674...

Planning in-between spaces: from a theoretical perspective to urban design strategies for marginalised urban fabrics Maddalena Rossi & Iacopo Zetti cityterritoryarchitecture.springeropen.com/articles/10....

Human Rights and the Architecture of Conflict By Tim Cunningham. Exposing how governments, public officials and private actors on both sides of the Atlantic entrenched racial and ethnic divisions through manipulation of the planning of the built environment. www.routledge.com/Human-Rights...

ABUNDANCE NO CAPITAL The Lively Architecture of Anupama Kundoo Edited by Angelika Fitz, Elke Krasny and Architekturzentrum Wien. How to imagine and build a non-extractivist and non-exploitative @mitpress.bsky.social architecture.https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262553124/abundance-not-capital/

LA CREATIVIDAD COMO ELEMENTO TRANSFORMADOR DEL TERRITORIO La Cárcel_ Segovia Centro de Creación L.Rodrigo-Martín U.Valladolid y P. Núñez-Gómez UCM. La reconfiguración de la antigua Prisión Provincial de Segovia en espacio de creación artística visualcompublications.es/SAUC/article...

NOT HERE, NOT NOW. Speculative Thought, Impossibility, and the Design Imagination by Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby How to learn to think the unthinkable @mitpress.bsky.social mitpress.mit.edu/978026204966...

Iwan Baan: From Las Vegas to Rome Princeton University School of Architecture This show turns to the spectacle of Las Vegas to rethink Rome–both urban centers that lie at the intersection of power and play. also see Rome—Las Vegas: Bread and Circuses (Lars Müller Publishers)

Translating the 15-Minute City: Local Adaptations of a Global Urban Policy Framework by Maciej Misztal University of Warsaw. With a focus on the role of spatial, institutional, environmental, demographic, and cultural conditions. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

STRATEGIES AND TACTICS IN PLATFORM URBANISM: Contested Spatial Production through Quick Delivery Platforms in Berlin and Barcelona by Nicolás Palacios Crisóstomo, David Kaufmann onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The Urbanism Reader Design, Technology, Culture and the Future of Cities Stefan Al (Anthology Editor) , Tom Verebes (Anthology Editor) www.bloomsbury.com/uk/urbanism-...

PODCAST Millennials Are Killing Capitalism Counterinsurgency Urbanism with Ted Rutland millennialsarekillingcapitalism.libsyn.com/counterinsur...

Authenticity and Urbanism A Critical Inquiry By Ali Madanipour www.routledge.com/Authenticity... Authenticity as an evaluative relationship with an origin, it unpacks a range of origins from a critical, non-essentialist perspective: self, author, substance, event, time, place and society.

Seeing like AI? AI urbanism reconsidered through a critical posthumanist perspective. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Bioregionalism and Degrowth: Addressing the Urban-Other Divide by Johanna Waldenberger &Federico Savini www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A caring civilisation worthy of the name: on refuturing the everyday through/by design By Jomy Joseph www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Why should architects design for other species, or seek to learn from other species how to design for humans? placesjournal.org/article/anim... @placesjournal.bsky.social

The Architecture of Generosity: Google Bay View and the New Techno Empire by Georgios Eftaxiopoulos Google not only disguises an unprecedented extraction of raw materials but facilitates the formation of an in-all-but-name techno empire. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Play It Again, Sam Repetition in the Arts by Samuel Jay Keyser, linguist and jazz trombone player mitpress.mit.edu/978026255232... @mitpress.bsky.social

PODCAST: Christian Schmid: Henri Lefebvre and the space of the city. Schmid is geographer, sociologist, urban researcher and until recently Professor of Sociology in the Department of Architecture at ETH Zurich.

LECTURE: The Architecture of Urbanity: Designing for Nature, Culture and Joy by @vishaan.bsky.social Why cities are the last, best hope for humanity, and why designers must, alongside political, business and cultural leaders, steward the healing of the planet. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbPE...