Aesthetic City Principles #7: Active Ground Floors
A critical ingredient for lively & safe cities
Creating Aesthetic Cities
Newsletter of The Aesthetic City. Investigating important questions in the built environment: how to improve the human condition through design, how to achieve long-lasting beauty and livable places, and reflections on architecture & urban design
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Muskian Futurism: The Aesthetics of Elon Musk
A view on the world's first trillionaire's aesthetics
Why Europe Needs A New Kind of Architecture School
Universities refuse to offer students free choice in what they learn. Until they do, new schools are needed.
Aesthetic City Principles #6: Shopfronts
The subtle art of creating shopfronts that enrich the street, beautify the city and stimulate the imagination
The Uneasy Answer to Achieving a 'New Aesthetics'
Part of the 'Towards a New Aesthetic' series as part of the New Aesthetics grant by Tyler Cowen and Patrick Collison
Aesthetic City Principles #5: Clear Entrances
Why entrances to buildings shouldn't be hidden
Reporting from the Frontline of Traditional Architecture Education
Traditional architecture summerschool programs are increasing in number. A sign of things to come?
Aesthetic City Principles #4 – Arcades & Colonnades
A downloadable guide on covered edges – creating shelter, depth and public life along streets and squares
A Requiem for Façades
How we exchanged warm, inviting façades for alienating, sterile street walls
What Were These Architects Thinking? A Walk In Billancourt
When A City Gets Nearly Everything Right... Except The Architecture