But what was the question?

Essays and journal entries concerning technology and the city. Title lifted from Cedric Price’s “Technology is the answer. But what was the question?”

Dan Hill in But what was the question?

Jun 19

The unimaginable imagined: On geoengineering and Liam Young’s ‘Planetary Redesign’

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Dan Hill in But what was the question?

Dec 30, 2020

Architects without architecture

Emerging models for a different kind of architecture due to different…

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Dan Hill in But what was the question?

Mar 6, 2021

Does anyone have information about this Fiat advert from the early nineteen-seventies? I found it reproduced in the extraordinary 1974 book Human Space Utopia (Penguin) by the great…

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Dan Hill in But what was the question?

Nov 10, 2019

Cities kick out the car: Part 2 of ‘And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile’

Dan Hill in But what was the question?

Jul 8, 2009

Towards a new architect: an interview with Carlo Ratti

Discussing the new multidisciplinary architectural practice

Ed. This piece was originally published at cityofsound.com on July 9, 2009.

Dan Hill in But what was the question?

Oct 2, 2015

The Commodification of Everything

Space Caviar, the Genoese design research collective headed by long-time collaborator Joseph Grima…

Dan Hill in But what was the question?

Sep 30, 2021

Lagom mobility

Co-opting a loose word—the Swedish concept of ‘lagom’—and redeploying it for our…

Dan Hill in But what was the question?

Oct 23, 2010

Shanghai Expo 2010: universal narratives vs. universal values in the corporate pavilions

Dan Hill in But what was the question?

Aug 21, 2008

Post-occupancy evaluations of public wi-fi services and spaces

How to understand the interaction of…

Dan Hill in But what was the question?

Feb 11, 2008

The Street as Platform