It is quite remarkable how we are so obsessed with originality and innovation when it comes to art or most of our daily appliances, but when it comes to architecture the story changes rapidly. In our attachment to the authenticity of the artwork, the personality of the author and the…

The new movie by Rupert Sanders, based on the hugely popular anime Ghost in the Shell by Musamune Shirow opens with a haunting preface. It is set in 2029 and observes as the boundary between human and machine becomes more and more blurred. In the time it has become customary…

One of the most peculiar and mysterious features of a city has to be the way it collects, stores and shares its memories. …

A city with a scar. Berlin was born in the steam of the Industrial Revolution and much like the racing engines of the railway, the city’s history never paced down. …

The Life and Death of Great European Cities I passionately believe in the need for a theory and approach for a building to “grow”, adapt and develop in time and space as fast as society and technology does. …

Signal is not the same as noise. You recognise a signal. A signal has a meaning and can be translated. A noise is something you hear. It is everywhere, all the time. Meaning it might have, but although you hear it, you are not really listening anyway. In my interpretation…

The following is a poetic exploration of the way cities treat time: their past, their present and their future. The publication treats cities as humans — their past reflecting in their memories and their future in their dreams. Both revealing a present and mostly — a character.

The following is an attempt to grasp the contemporary widespread disregard for copies and glimpse into a world of future copying, therefore also a world of future originality. In a study by Angelika Seidel and Jesse Prinz at CUNY (City University of New York) researchers told test subjects to imagine…