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db — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:50:12 +0000

Words Worth Books in Waterloo ON a great independent bookstore, part of the life of the community.

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Musagetes News: The Cat’s Pyjamas

db — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:15:21 +0000

From the student of the University of Waterloo’s School of Architecture …only one winner of an event in a Fall of exemplary work.

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Bjarke Ingels: 3 warp-speed architecture tales

db — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:25:18 +0000

via ted.com

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Why Architecture Matters

db — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:58:12 +0000

via thelibraryshop.org

The purpose of Why Architecture Matters is to ”come to grips with how things feel to us when we stand before them, with how architecture affects us emotionally as well as intellectually” – with its impact on our lives. ”Architecture begins to matter,” writes Paul Goldberger, ”when it brings delight and sadness and perplexity and awe along with a roof over our heads.”

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Building Up and Tearing Down Reflections on the Age of Architecture

db — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:52:13 +0000

via thelibraryshop.org

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Things I love

db — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:06:37 +0000

I cannot pretend to have no interest in the way the other lives.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/11/12/garden/20091112_Halaban/index.html?nl=multimedia&emc=focusema1

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Innovative persuasion

db — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:25:24 +0000

]Piano Stairs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lXh2n0aPyw]

Unpacking My Library: the pleasure of the libraries of others.

db — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 22:49:17 +0000

The exhibit and the book. Urban Center Books has the exhibit and Yale University Press has just published the October release book entitled Unpacking My Library – Architects and Their Books, edited by Jo Steffens and featuring an essay by Walter Benjamin of which this is a brief excerpt:

“I am unpacking my library. Yes, I am. . . . Be ready to share with me a bit of the mood – it is certainly not an elegiac mood but, rather, one of anticipation – which these books arouse in a genuine collector. . . . What I am really concerned with is giving you some insight into the relationship of a book collector to his possessions, into collecting rather than a collection.” – Walter Benjamin, 1931

Simply Sustainable Blog

db — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:54:12 +0000

Simply Sustainable Blog follows a editorial project that invites contributions from the public regarding their experiences in sustainable living. Some of these ideas will be published in an upcoming book of the same title.

Layton, the Montreal Book Fair and Dust Jacket of the Week | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS

db — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:22:59 +0000

Layton, the Montreal Book Fair and Dust Jacket of the Week | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS.