Tag: Spheres

Spheres, Jeers & Cheers: It’s the 2023 Architecture and Design Awards

The world is a beknighted garbage fire, war is spreading, authoritarianism is on the rise, the climate apocalypse is upon us, everybody hates everybody else, and male architects still can’t keep it in their pants. What are we to do? What we have done every year for the past fourteen consecutiv...

The Death of the Public Sphere

I spent the last week canvassing to get out the vote for the American midterm election, and the experience was a bit shocking. Not so much talking to people door to door, where I generally got what I expected. Most people didn’t want to talk politics, very religious and pro-police people were ...

Cubes, Spheres and Other Geometric Shapes in Science-Fiction and Horror Movies and Writings

I was thinking this the other day. Perfect shapes like circles, spheres, cubes and, of course, pyramids have captivated mankind since the dawn of civilisation. Perhaps it is because they do not conspicuously turn up in our natural world, except for such regular biologically formed objects like fruit...