The Pathos of Things
Wessie du ToitOn design and modern artefacts
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In Praise of Antoni Gaudí
Gaudí’s rippling facade at the Casa Batlló. (Image: Cary Bass via Wikimedia Commons)
When asked why his masterpiece, the Sagrada Família church in Barcelona, was taking so long to complete, the architect Antoni Gaudí is said to have replie...
Can We Put Limits on Design?
One geo-engineering proposal involves building a dam across the Bering Strait, pictured here, to regulate ocean currents. (Image: NASA)
For Ray Kurzweil, principle researcher at Google, humanity is a design problem. The abilities that evol...
European Atlantis
Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Castle on the River, 1820. (Source: Wikimedia Commons)
In the background there stands a country church, solid but unimposing, nestled in a sleepy landscape of bushes and footpaths. A quaint scene, confidently sketc...
The Life of a Showman
Image: Marianne Cornelissen-Kuyt
“A way of life, I would call it.” John Green is crouching among the colourful figures of a merry-go-round, polishing the seats and conducting his final checks. All around us, fairground lights flash silentl...
The Dogs of War
Planes take off from USS Abraham Lincoln as part of Operation Fury, the current American campaign in Iran. (Image: public domain)
It is a cliché of more that 100 years’ vintage to say that modern warfare is disturbingly impersonal, its act...
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Wessie du Toit writes about design, culture, and other aspects of the modern world. His Substack is The Pathos of Things.
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