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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Aesthetic City Principles #7: Active Ground Floors
A critical ingredient for lively & safe cities
Active ground floors - urbanists talk about it all the time. And understandably so: with the work of Jane Jacobs work, Jan Gehl and the New Urbanists, attention for ‘eyes on the street’ was re...
Muskian Futurism: The Aesthetics of Elon Musk
Something that bothers me with Elon Musk's vision on the aesthetics of the future is that it doesn't make sense.
To be clear, this is not an article aimed at Musk-bashing, but an exercise in discovering what the world's first trillionaire'...
Why Europe Needs A New Kind of Architecture School
Since the 1960's, Modernism has reigned supreme in architecture schools.
Its rise was unstoppable. A building boom and connected commercial interests made the stark & simple lines of Modernist buildings extremely attractive to architects....
Aesthetic City Principles #6: Shopfronts
The subtle art of creating shopfronts that enrich the street, beautify the city and stimulate the imagination
Urbanists have finally realized that ‘active frontage’ is indeed very important for lively, attractive cities.
The Uneasy Answer to Achieving a 'New Aesthetics'
An answer to the question of what is needed for a 21st century aesthetic came to me during a lecture from the great Craig Hamilton - during our Summer School of Traditional Urbanism and Architecture in Utrecht.
Unlike many would expect,...
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