Tag Archives: Architecture

#WorkingOutLoud on the Social Learning Designer as Architect

Posted on July 22, 2020 by julianstodd

I’m half way through facilitating a two day workshop on Social Learning design: these types of day are pretty full on, so writing at the end of the day is daunting. As part of #WorkingOutLoud, i just wanted to share … Continue reading →

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The Six O’Clock Community: Transient Infrastructure

Posted on November 26, 2018 by julianstodd

It’s rare that i still find the Blue Frog setting up, but a particularly early start today meant that they were still hanging signs and fixing the tent. The coffee, when it landed, was perfect. A carefully choreographed start to … Continue reading →

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New York: Spaces

Posted on July 22, 2017 by julianstodd

New York is one of my favourite cities: disjointed, divided, crowded and perpetually changing. The architecture is massive: not brutalist, but simply prevalent. There is more architecture than air in Manhattan. Layers of it, from the monumental to the prosaic, … Continue reading →

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Seattle: An Architecture Of Innovation

Posted on September 30, 2016 by julianstodd

Amazon are building a forest: in the heart of downtown Seattle, beauty emerges, a convoluted scaffolding, sharp sunlight glinting off glass, anodised steel forming perfect spheres. A new building, an architecture of innovation. Three interlinked spheres that will form meeting … Continue reading →

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Switzerland: Tunnels and Bridges

Posted on August 20, 2016 by julianstodd

I have an irrational fear of disused industrial spaces: large abandoned warehouses freak me out, especially when they have derelict, decaying doors. Don’t ask me why: i already caveated it with ‘irrational’. Once i stayed in Belgium at the end … Continue reading →

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Cambodia Diary: Temples

Posted on January 22, 2016 by julianstodd

The mass of architecture simply delineates space: It subdivides and subtracts from the sum total of the world, partitioning off a series of spaces purposed for ritual, function or play. Be it mud walls, steel doors or stone ramparts, the … Continue reading →

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New York: Juxtaposed

Posted on December 8, 2015 by julianstodd

There’s an obsession with juxtaposition in New York: a co-created skyline that intersperses urban dereliction, industrial heritage, vanity architecture, functional service, tourist enchantment and dog walking in a complex narrative that weaves through Manhattan in a complex and ever evolving … Continue reading →

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Boston: Strong & Proud

Posted on July 4, 2015 by julianstodd

It’s a certain understated pride that comes through. Not a brash New York pride, nor a chilled San Francisco one. Rather a constant theme that rides with you throughout your time in the city. Take the names: buildings, roads, parks … Continue reading →

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Monarchs and Monasteries: Emergent Communities in the Social Age

Posted on January 21, 2015 by julianstodd

There’s the thing, then, much later, the memory of the thing. The moment when you push aside the brambles, kick down the tall grass and see the old stones and crumbling mortar revealed to the light of day one more … Continue reading →

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DIsruptive Environments: why wallpaper may not matter

Posted on November 1, 2014 by julianstodd

The relationship between environment and culture is an interesting one: i’ve been particularly lucky this week to work in a wide range of organisations, sporting different physical spaces, from the high tech glassy to the downright arty slum. In one … Continue reading →

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