Simon Houfe obituary
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My friend Simon Houfe, who has died aged 83, was a brilliant writer, art
historian, journalist and raconteur; his originality and enthusiasm
enriched the...
4 hours ago
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Feds look to Great Salt Lake as a source of rare minerals - Feds look to Great Salt Lake as a source of rare minerals Zachary Whalen Sun, 08/23/2026 - 09:00 Primary Image [image: Salt Lake, Utah, at the Great Salt L...5 hours ago
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Yaku – Sustainable Urban Runoff Management Module / El Sindicato Arquitectura - Isla Tortuga Park, located in northern Quito, Ecuador, was selected for the implementation of the Yaku (meaning "water" in Kichwa) prototype. This modula...2 days ago
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Reasons That I, a Billionaire, Am Still Miserable - The yacht’s Wi-Fi became weak for almost forty-five seconds while crossing the Mediterranean, forcing me to experience what experts call “a thought.” My ...2 days ago
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How to Read the Signal of Your Life - Sitting atop a Spanish mesa one sweltering August night, watching the Perseid meteor showers streak the sky with the debris of a comet burning through the ...1 week ago
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NEW: An Unofficial Dictionary of AI-Induced Mental Habits & Disorders - A field guide to potential AI-induced mental habits, compulsions and behavioural quirks that may be emerging in the age of AI. » See the charticle Do you r...3 weeks ago
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In case you’re looking for a blog that’s gone missing on Tumblr and didn’t see this recent update. - changes: Deleted accounts can now be recovered up to 30 days later We’re making a big change to how account deletion works on Tumblr, and we’re really e...5 weeks ago
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The Wonder of Everyday Life - Welcome to Ordinary Extraordinary, our new, eight-week newsletter series.1 month ago
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Assorted publications - I haven’t been posting on the website as much as I would like to due to reasons of travelling, working and parenting (mostly parenting 🥰) . But I’ve fo...1 month ago
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WHEN BUYING A NEW FLAT - ALWAYS VISIT THE LOCAL FIRE STATION - THANK ME LATER! - The next time you are thinking of buying a new flat for your family please visit your local fire station first. I know that sounds a little wild, but le...
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3D time enabled historical streetscapes re.city Kartta Labs with Google Research - Kartta Labs and re.city was a Google Research project that I was involved in a few years ago. It enabled users to view, interact and contribute to historic...2 months ago
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Notes en passant: how AI could unlearn in HEOR Modelling - In a recent paper, Tinglong Dai, Risa Wolf, and Haiyang Yang wrote about unlearning in Medical AI. With more and more CPU and storage thrown at Large Langu...11 months ago
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A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books is on Substack - I'm breaking my blogging silence to do two things: 1. Alert readers to the fact I am still writing reviews of architecture books under the title *A...
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Cyber Warfare Is Getting Real: The risk of escalation from cyberattacks has never been greater—or the pursuit of peace more complicated - My piece in Wired The post Cyber Warfare Is Getting Real: The risk of escalation from cyberattacks has never been greater—or the pursuit of peace more co...3 years ago
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North 'plaza' in Cahokia was likely inundated year-round, study finds - The ancient North American city of Cahokia had as its focal point a feature now known as Monks Mound, a giant earthwork surrounded on its north, south, ...
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Competition / IAAC GLOBAL SUMMER SCHOOL 2021 // Applications Open! / Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia - The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) is glad to launch another edition of the Global Summer School (GSS21), the 14th edition of the ...5 years ago
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For New Urbanism Posts, Follow Me at Heartland Intelligence - Moving forward, new posts on urbanism and public policy will appear on my Substack site Heartland Intelligence. So please click over and subscribe if you...6 years ago
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The Importance of Being Earnest - There are a couple of things to be excited about. The first is that Ranil has made his Youtube debut. Above you can watch him present on of his PhD papers ...6 years ago
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What is Stopping Poor People From Moving? - Why have people stopped moving? The reason, economists believe, is that while there are good wages in economically vibrant cities like New York and San Fra...8 years ago
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Starting Young: 4 Tips For Reducing Waste In Schools - In order to reduce the amount of waste produced by our schools, we need to emphasize sustainability from a young age. This can be accomplished through stud...9 years ago
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The Future of Heritage Conservation - Well, it finally started to happen, and in Houston of all places. PastForward, the National Preservation Conference of the National Trust for Historic Pre...9 years ago
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Utopian Futures vs. the Fictional Present - This is the summary of a talk given at Oris – House of architecture, Zagreb, Croatia on June 16th 2016, which was part of the the Future Architecture Platf...10 years ago
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Digital City Portrait Boston - [image: Digital City Portrait Boston] For the launch of 4G services in eleven UK cities, EE commissioned Brendan Dawes to create a digital portrait for e...10 years ago
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A Note From Your Editor - We will no longer actively publish on Datavisualization.ch, as our focus has shifted from collecting visualizations to building them. I'd like to share the...10 years ago
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Tonito Returns… Albeit briefly! - It has been a very long time since I last blogged. Too long in fact, but over the last year changing circumstances in my life has made blogging very, very ...11 years ago
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499 - 05.14.11 Don't forget which is the brake. Writer: Katelyn Regenscheid Designer: Mary Arneson11 years ago
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Work: Absolut Cracking - New work for the ongoing Absolut Art Exchange project, by way of invitation from Filip Visnjic of the famous Creative Applications blog. You can find my co...11 years ago
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Visualizing Publicly Available US Government Data Online - [image: political_us.jpg] Brightpoint Consulting recently released a small collection of interactive visualizations based on open, publicly available data...11 years ago
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A Space That Is Not the Battlefield - *by Patrick Sykes* The dust is settling on Shura City, yet not a single brick has been laid. Since this proposal for a drone-proof city emerged, its creato...
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Timothy M. Rohan: Scenographic Urbanism: Paul Rudolph and the Public Realm - On Places, Timothy Rohan offers a detailed look at Paul Rudolph's masterful — and dramatic — public projects of the early 1960s.12 years ago
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Just a house - Hiroshi Sugimoto's reconstructed Chashitsu teahouse. Japan seems to be a place where housing, the very notion of "the house", is being constantly questione...
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The Rise of the Darists - At long last, Rice University School of Architecture’s Plat 2.5 is out. Actually, it’s been out for the last few months. I have an essay called “The Rise o...13 years ago
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Generator.x 3.0: Documentation and aftermath - Generator.x 3.0: From Code to Atoms (slideshow of “gx30″ tag on Flickr) Generator.x 3.0: From Code to Atoms Feb 18-26, 2012 at iMal, Brussels http://www.im...14 years ago
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Is the Jasmine Revolution stepping back - It seems just yesterday when Tunisians took the streets in protests for the transition government mainly formed by members of the old and obsolete establis...14 years ago
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