Notes
A journal on the work of creativity, covering the places, the things we need and use, and the services that make them work.
PlacesA house built on top of a waterfall.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Giant drawings only the sky can read.
The Nazca people
PlacesThe school that redesigned the modern world.
Walter Gropius / Bauhaus
PlacesThe first artists, seventeen thousand years ago.
Palaeolithic painters
PlacesThe building that shouldn't have worked.
Jørn Utzon
PlacesThe cathedral that has taken 140 years.
Antoni Gaudí
PlacesThe building that saved a city.
Frank Gehry
PlacesAn army of clay, guarding a dead emperor.
Qin dynasty artisans
PlacesHe built the stadium, then refused to cheer.
Ai Weiwei
PlacesFill a room until the self disappears.
Yayoi Kusama
A monument made of sugar, built to melt.
Kara Walker
A memorial that finally said the names.
Tony Albert
She builds worlds that live for one night.
Es Devlin
Designing with Country, not on it.
Alison Page
PlacesRebuilding a neighbourhood, one saved building at a time.
Theaster Gates
The boxer who built rooms out of light.
Tadao Ando
PlacesHe put the melting Arctic in the middle of the city.
Olafur Eliasson
PlacesFifty years carving a room for the sky.
James Turrell
PlacesThe studio as an argument.
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PlacesRooms that hold ideas.
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