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2009 266

December 2009

  1. Art Trap
  2. Spiral Icon
  3. Manhattan Paleolimnology
  4. Rousseau and Echolocation
  5. Music for Landscapes
  6. Leviathan: An Interview with Richard Mosse
  7. Geospatial Holograms
  8. Muscatatuck
  9. The Burj Dubai as Storm Machine
  10. Crash State
  11. On Bombs and Preservation
  12. A User’s Guide to New York City pt. 2: Street Vendor Guide
  13. A User’s Guide to New York City pt. 1: Tenants’ Rights Flashcards
  14. Love in the Time of Home Quarantine
  15. Cracking the Planet
  16. Pirate Radio Speleology
  17. Eat the Earth
  18. Blackout
  19. Make Mine a Minaret
  20. How To: Seed Grenade
  21. Agenda
  22. Landscapes of Quarantine and the Counterfeit University
  23. Crude City
  24. Alexander’s Gates
  25. Cities Gone Wild
  26. The Migratory Forest

November 2009

  1. Booked
  2. Vardzia
  3. Political Buffer Space and Chinese “Black Jails”
  4. City of Gold
  5. Plants Without Borders: An Interview with Sara Redstone
  6. Crowned with a towered wall
  7. Of Rock Tombs, Cave Temples, and the Architecture of Ancient India
  8. California City
  9. A Social Philosophy of Buttresses
  10. The squalor, the possibilities, the madness
  11. The Fall
  12. Refuge
  13. Salt Space / Biospeleology
  14. Quadraturin
  15. Electrical Folklore
  16. Shelved in the Sky
  17. Messianic Urbanism
  18. The City and its Flooded Double
  19. The Turbulence Biennial
  20. World of Giving
  21. Until Proven Safe: An Interview with Krista Maglen
  22. Bomb Grid
  23. The Fourth Plinth: London Planetarium
  24. Grilling Octopi in a Flooded New York
  25. Editing the Shadow Volume
  26. Landslide Dynamics
  27. Of swarms, media, and design education
  28. 1984–2001
  29. Aqueous
  30. Cliff House
  31. Words in Space
  32. One Million Years of Isolation: An Interview with Abraham Van Luik
  33. Ghostly

October 2009

  1. New Local Worlds in Section
  2. Mine / Stack / Vertigo
  3. Who would want to be an architect?
  4. Isolation or Quarantine: An Interview with Dr. Georges Benjamin
  5. Robotism, or: The Golden Arm of Architecture
  6. 100
  7. The Sphere and the Labyrinth
  8. Fossil Reactors
  9. Subeconomic Space
  10. Extraordinary Engineering Controls: An Interview with Jonathan Richmond
  11. Cities of the CDC
  12. On the Other Side of Arrival: An Interview with David Barnes
  13. The Emperor’s Castle
  14. The Archaeology of Seclusion
  15. Safari 7
  16. Chemical Archive
  17. Soft Robots
  18. Biology at the Border: An Interview with Alison Bashford
  19. The Last Town on Earth: An Interview with Thomas Mullen
  20. The Plague
  21. Dormitorium
  22. Phantom City

September 2009

  1. Manual of Architectural Possibilities
  2. The Windowless Hall of Tides
  3. Sound engines, astral cenotaph, polar infranet
  4. Landscapes of Quarantine Studio: Participant Update
  5. Linkology
  6. Digital Memory Palace
  7. Body Baroque
  8. Tabletop Terrain
  9. A Day at Storefront for Art and Architecture
  10. Hexagonal Hydropolis
  11. Skyscraper Bridges
  12. The Bay Line
  13. Extreme agricultural statuary
  14. Light Graphs in the Andes
  15. Gonzo Green
  16. Maunsell Towers
  17. The Mushroom Tunnel of Mittagong
  18. Extreme Environments
  19. Pamphlet Infrastructure
  20. Book of Space
  21. Fire Lookout Towers
  22. Oil Rocks

August 2009

  1. Digital Architecture London
  2. Optioning Architecture
  3. Procedural Destruction and the Algorithmic Fiction of the City
  4. City Laid Out Like Lizard
  5. Landscapes of Quarantine: Call for Applications
  6. The Edge
  7. Dissection of a Cathedral
  8. City of Fees and Services
  9. The Bioluminescent Metropolis
  10. Scuba Diving Beneath Hagia Sophia
  11. On Publishing Student Work
  12. Doors, Thirds, Bridges, and Pools
  13. Architecture is always a way of envisioning our world transformed into something else
  14. Future Pastoral
  15. Excavatory Improv
  16. Graphic Analysis
  17. BLDGBLOG
  18. Island of Future Airships
  19. The Missing Buildings of Cockatoo Island

July 2009

  1. The Bat Spiral
  2. Architecture of the Blink
  3. The Dimensions of an Island
  4. Submarine-Repair Facilities, Mushroom Farms, and the Abandoned Islands of Sydney, Australia
  5. The Thirteenth Room
  6. Reburbia
  7. Thanks!
  8. 10 Reasons to Read The BLDGBLOG Book
  9. Corridors of Power
  10. Going to Eleven
  11. Romecore

June 2009

  1. Coil
  2. Launch
  3. Quick List 12: Of buried machines, ice tunnels, and stratigraphic euphoria
  4. Origin and Detour
  5. Infrastructure as Advertisement
  6. The Danger of Digging Deeper
  7. Infrastructural Anxiety
  8. The Tree Museum
  9. London Yields, Harvested
  10. NYNEX, Embedded Angel of New York City
  11. IceLink / Land Bridge / Yesterday
  12. Bloomsday
  13. A Parking Lot to Last 16,000 Years
  14. #skyfail
  15. Building Storm
  16. When the ruins begin to sing
  17. The exact acoustic shape of the skies above Los Angeles
  18. Acqua Veritas
  19. Serving Space
  20. Whoever Rules the Sewers Rules the City
  21. The Great Lakes Paleolandscapes Project
  22. The Hollow Hills
  23. Chinese Islam and the Case of the Disappearing Prison
  24. Watershed Down
  25. Mobile Street Furniture
  26. Pardon the Disruption
  27. Urban X-Ray / Ancient Orchard
  28. Shells, Tube Structures, and Minimal Surfaces
  29. Rome Thunderdome
  30. The Water Menu
  31. Urban Haunting

May 2009

  1. Saddam’s Palaces: An Interview with Richard Mosse
  2. Thrilling Wonder Stories
  3. Zone for Cloud
  4. The Immersive Future of the Architectural Monograph
  5. London Yields: Urban Agriculture
  6. Sound-Sensitive Maze Labs of a Sewer-Spelunking Blog
  7. London Future Green
  8. This Gaming Life: An Interview with Jim Rossignol
  9. Tectonic Real Estate
  10. Bed, Bath, and Beyond
  11. The House of Memory and Automata
  12. Earthquakes on Street View
  13. The Enemy by Design
  14. Evil Lair: On the Architecture of the Enemy in Videogame Worlds
  15. Infantospatialism, or: adventures in crib design
  16. Books Received
  17. Landscape Deflation Exercises
  18. Simulant Youth
  19. Early Man Site
  20. San Francisco As It Used To Be
  21. The Hills Have Eyes
  22. The Wave Motors of California
  23. BLDGBLOG
  24. Future Babel
  25. Urban Islands
  26. Terrain Deformation Grenades
  27. Unbuilt Australia
  28. The Rentable Basement Maze

April 2009

  1. The Parallax View
  2. This Diseased Utopia: 10 Thoughts on Swine Flu and the City
  3. Super Powers Activate
  4. Just Add Water
  5. The Subterranean Machine Dreams of a Paralyzed Youth in Los Angeles
  6. A Drone Amidst the Ruins
  7. How the Other Half Writes: In Defense of Twitter
  8. Space/Drive
  9. And the Pulitzer goes to…
  10. Atmospheric Intoxication
  11. Sand/Stone
  12. Space-Based Storm Control
  13. Surface/Structure/Fold
  14. The BLDGBLOG Book
  15. Subject
  16. Narrative Planetarium
  17. Nocturnal Projections
  18. Park Stories
  19. The Lost Airfields of Greater Los Angeles

March 2009

  1. The Immersive Edge
  2. Media Facades and Newscocoons
  3. Southern Exposure
  4. Talks, Tours, and the Cities of Tomorrow
  5. Super NAFTA Land
  6. Photography, Rights, Media
  7. Books Received
  8. Postopolis! LA Update
  9. So good you can’t see it
  10. Death, dust, decay
  11. Circle and District
  12. Kind of Blue
  13. Guardians of Architecture
  14. Surgeon of Space

February 2009

  1. Seastead Design Competition
  2. The Continuous Enclave: Strategies in Bypass Urbanism
  3. Listing Listward
  4. Mathscape
  5. Landscape Anthropology
  6. Bering Bridge
  7. Designing the Post-Terrestrial @ the SVA
  8. The Program Is Not on the Floor
  9. Hotelier at Sea
  10. The London Glaciarium
  11. Geologics
  12. Yes is More
  13. Pushkin Park
  14. Worship the Glitch
  15. Agricultural Sabotage
  16. The Boom is Over
  17. Park’s Parks
  18. Get Set
  19. Watermarks
  20. Postopolis! LA

January 2009

  1. Cardiopulmonary Spatialization
  2. Hydro-Pharmacology
  3. State of Incorporation
  4. Twin Town
  5. Planet Harddrive
  6. Cable City and the Hanging Hotel
  7. Hydro-Manhattan
  8. Sky TV
  9. [bracket]
  10. Ride the Lightning
  11. The Year of Listening
  12. Found Sound City
  13. SuperMax
  14. Manhattan as a vascular organ
  15. BLDGBLOG @ Rice University
  16. Stonehenge Beneath the Waters of Lake Michigan
  17. Of networks, grids, and infrastructures, or: How to make a planet
  18. Arrested Development
  19. In the winter of light
  20. Fortifications Tour
  21. Air Born

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December 2008

  1. The Six Nations of 2010
  2. Architects of the Near Future
  3. Dark Sky Park
  4. Sludgecore
  5. Forest Camp San Francisco
  6. Nuclear Urbanism
  7. Warmed by Crematorium
  8. Gone Feral
  9. Cities in the Flood Zone
  10. Library of Dust
  11. Fossil Cities
  12. The Inhabitable Wind Turbine
  13. Backyard Aquaculture
  14. Down Under
  15. Space Beer
  16. San Francisco As It Should Be
  17. Infrastructural Domesticity

November 2008

  1. The Return
  2. Waiting Room
  3. Science Fiction and Architecture
  4. The City Dehumidified
  5. Barbican Update
  6. Piracy, Live at Sea
  7. Feral Cities
  8. Code 46
  9. Resampled Space

October 2008

  1. Offshoring Audacity
  2. Slow Decay
  3. The Atlas of Hidden Water
  4. The immersive sculpture of linked voids
  5. Zones of Exclusion
  6. Waste Towers
  7. Underground Rivers Frozen in Place
  8. Zip Line Tours Through City Space
  9. The Game
  10. The Castle
  11. Minor Landscapes and the Geography of American Political Campaigns
  12. Rethinking Union Station in an Era of High-Speed Rail
  13. A mix of possible routes: BLDGBLOG speaks with Vito Acconci

September 2008

  1. Hitting the Books
  2. Light Box
  3. And the new White House is…
  4. Into the Woods
  5. White House Redux: The Book
  6. Outer Darkness
  7. The Landscape Anthropology of Photography Museums (and the spatial implications of graven images)
  8. Artificial Migration Routes for Monarch Butterflies
  9. The Brain in Space (Cognition and the City)
  10. To remain suspended without sinking or falling
  11. The Rule of Regulations
  12. Future Slum
  13. Art + Environment Conference, Reno
  14. Nuclear Nation
  15. Servers at Sea
  16. The Wildcats of Foreclosure

August 2008

  1. Airborne Environments
  2. The Comparative Literature of Massive Construction Sites
  3. Tactical Landscaping and Terrain Deformation
  4. Big One in the Big Apple
  5. Mayan Muons and Unmapped Rooms
  6. BLDGBLOG
  7. The Basement Maze of Leavenworth, Kansas
  8. Library of Dust
  9. Patent Drawings for Geodesic Structures
  10. Church of God, Inflationist
  11. Quick List 11
  12. Building Blogs
  13. An Architectural Pathway to Artificial Life
  14. An Earth Without Its Surface

July 2008

  1. The Psychiatric Infrastructure of the City
  2. 15 Lombard Street
  3. The Atlas of All Possible Bank Robberies
  4. Mysterious Chinese Tunnels
  5. landscape.mp3: An Interview with Smout Allen
  6. Spaces, Repeating: An Interview with Tom McCarthy
  7. Chemical Nature
  8. Baarle-Hertog
  9. The Akwizgran Discrepancy
  10. Three London Photos
  11. Super Sucker
  12. Earthquakes in the Sky
  13. Building Users Union
  14. Zoology
  15. Cinema City
  16. Chinese Air Bars
  17. Agent of Change
  18. Trainspotting
  19. Time Control

June 2008

  1. BLDGBLOG’s 4th of July Live Interview Marathon in London
  2. Martian Garden
  3. London is swimming
  4. For whom the bell tolls
  5. RoboVault
  6. Setting Up Shop in the Apocalypse
  7. Pandemonium
  8. Lost and Found
  9. Night Vision
  10. Sounding Rooms
  11. White House Redux on NPR
  12. BLDGBLOG
  13. Mapping dryness
  14. BLDGBLOG
  15. BLDGBLOG
  16. Stadiums of disaster and war
  17. BLDGBLOG
  18. Machine Dreams
  19. BLDGBLOG
  20. BLDGBLOG

May 2008

  1. Buildings and books
  2. Olympic Choreography
  3. The Other Night Sky
  4. Caverns in light
  5. Radio Reservations
  6. Inside the Test Village
  7. Deep-water city-states
  8. The Digital Replacement of the Natives
  9. Mountain Monuments
  10. Botanical Otology
  11. Deep in the basement of an ancient tenement on Second Avenue in the heart of midtown New York City, I was fishing
  12. Vertical House

April 2008

  1. The Architecture of Ascent
  2. Space as a Symphony of Turning Off Sounds
  3. Game/Space: An Interview with Daniel Dociu
  4. Structured Ice
  5. Hotels in the Afterlife
  6. Control Shift
  7. Mission to Mars
  8. Sky.doc
  9. Rising Up, Rising Down
  10. Cairo Sound City
  11. Ancient Roads
  12. Desert Getaway
  13. Future Super-Cities
  14. By Indirections, Find Directions Out
  15. Neuro-Tourism
  16. Architecture and the Media
  17. The mathematics of preservation and the future of urban ruins
  18. Transmitting live from below the Antarctic Ice
  19. The Sound of Evolution

March 2008

  1. Forgotten Architects
  2. Earth Evolves
  3. Power Plant
  4. Google Maps of Sci-Fi
  5. Eddy Rises
  6. The Architecture of Self-Measurement
  7. Chemical Geography
  8. Landscape Futures @ Penn
  9. Below the Polar Ice Cap
  10. Show Caves of the Nouveau Riche
  11. The Trenches of Approach
  12. BLDGBLOG in Baltimore
  13. Feeling Presidential
  14. Conspiracy Dwellings
  15. The controlled river indicates
  16. The Octagon
  17. Angling for the sun
  18. On illustrating architecture

February 2008

  1. The Subterranean Water Cannons of Leadville, Colorado
  2. Simulated Environments for Animals
  3. Project Runway
  4. Going Up
  5. Flying-in the Bat House under military escort
  6. Prosthetic Delta
  7. Asleep beneath the Northern Lights
  8. The Hotel Made From Ice
  9. Vertical Transport Through Architectural Space
  10. Amsterdam Subcity
  11. Top 5 Ways to Hack the Surface of the Earth
  12. Trash Mandala
  13. Air Disaster Simulations
  14. We will migrate into the sky
  15. Aerial Terrains
  16. The Big Issue
  17. Psychology at Depth
  18. Mod Living
  19. The Subterranean Invasion

January 2008

  1. Narrative Infrastructures
  2. Robbie Williams CDs will be used to pave roads in China
  3. Colored Magma
  4. Immanent islandry
  5. The great nowhere at the edge
  6. Literary Atmospheres
  7. BLDGBLOG @ The Bartlett
  8. White House Redux
  9. Lyons-Dubai
  10. Elastic Houses
  11. The Other San Francisco
  12. I went to the car park because I wished to live deliberately
  13. Landing airplanes in the middle of the sea
  14. Mirrored crops and white gardens, or: Making the planet more reflective
  15. Incision Skin
  16. The Elevator Tower
  17. The horrible secret of Number 6 Whitten Street

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December 2007

  1. The year is 2099…
  2. All eyes on the city
  3. Adventures in Stacking
  4. Planet Battery
  5. Green and pleasant land
  6. Comparative Planetology: An Interview with Kim Stanley Robinson
  7. Religion by Satellite
  8. Church of God, Elevator
  9. Monolith Moderne
  10. The city of retroactive mathematics
  11. The Husband Who Would Not Die
  12. Farmadelphia
  13. Under the West
  14. Building Lightning Farms in Paris
  15. In San Francisco, With Drinks
  16. The Space of the Book
  17. 50 large buildings on the floor of three rooms in an apartment
  18. Server Rooms and the Future of Humanism
  19. The future warehouse of unwanted books

November 2007

  1. Air Brain
  2. The IceCube and the Earth’s Core
  3. Algae Power
  4. Study in Mass
  5. Mobile Minimalism
  6. Urban Speculation
  7. Billboard.bldg
  8. Golf amongst the glaciers
  9. Foundation
  10. Earthquake Towers, Trapdoors, and other such delights
  11. Climate Change Escapism
  12. Bannerman’s Island
  13. Inside the Vault
  14. BLDGBLOG @ SCI-Arc
  15. The City of Secret Burial Grounds
  16. London 2090 A.D.
  17. Stacked Cathedrals
  18. I can bear to see no more ruins
  19. The bridged architecture of adjacent peaks and “the fallen man of letters”
  20. From Beyond
  21. The Property

October 2007

  1. Event 40204628
  2. Spies, Light-Writing, and the Surface of the City
  3. White Light
  4. The Road
  5. N.A.W.A.P.A.
  6. Drained
  7. The event
  8. Quick List X
  9. BLDGBLOG Meets McSweeney’s Meets Park Life Meets San Francisco
  10. Greater Los Angeles
  11. Converging on Los Angeles
  12. Deep Space Pharma
  13. When my dome opens, I see stars
  14. Sitting amidst war ruins in the hills outside San Francisco
  15. Archismuggler
  16. Without Walls: An Interview with Lebbeus Woods
  17. Robo-Chernobyl and the Alcubierre Drive
  18. Hog Island
  19. Air Unit

September 2007

  1. Lights among the ruins
  2. Sound Pressure
  3. Urban Noise Generation
  4. Inhaling 9/11
  5. Galaxy Chicago
  6. A Pavilion in New York
  7. It came from outer space
  8. Limey
  9. The school of 5000 corpses
  10. 12 Houses: The Wonderfully Puzzling and Colorful Use of Spatial Volume
  11. Sci-Fi Regionalism
  12. Fire Department Psychiatry
  13. Well-behaved Homes
  14. In the Red
  15. The Elephants of Rome: An Interview with Mary Beard (pt. 2)
  16. The Wonders of the World: An Interview with Mary Beard (pt. 1)
  17. The Tomb of Agamemnon
  18. Buy a Silk Mill
  19. Hot-Mapping the UK, or: Spy Planes Over Haringey
  20. BLDGBLOG Interviews…
  21. Sovereignties of air: the new strategic landscape
  22. A big cop in a small town: architecture of the model village
  23. Bauhaus Pyramid
  24. Sound Field

August 2007

  1. Robot City
  2. Drains of Canada: An Interview with Michael Cook
  3. Single Hauz
  4. Hello. Welcome to my squash cave.
  5. Lake/House
  6. Find a lake, float out to the center, build a house
  7. Post-residential Venice
  8. Conspiracies of Demolition
  9. The Fold
  10. Airborne Geology
  11. Derinkuyu, or: the allure of the underground city
  12. Architectural Sustainability
  13. Musique concrète
  14. Oceanic
  15. Waterville
  16. Golf Stars
  17. A Convergence at the Hammer
  18. Planet of Sound
  19. Beneath the Neon
  20. The Sky Orchestra
  21. Acoustic Planetology
  22. Audio Architecture
  23. 50 manifestos
  24. Event 14312160
  25. One or two nights in the Sodium Hotel
  26. Infrastructure is patriotic
  27. Ant Urbanism

July 2007

  1. The Possibility of Secret Passageways: An Interview with Patrick McGrath
  2. Manifesto, or: “the nihilistic ravings of insomniac bohemians”
  3. Some thoughts on desert gardens
  4. Liberation Hydrology: Miami, 2107 A.D.
  5. British Hydrology
  6. The Wit of the Staircase
  7. Prison Town, USA
  8. Chemical Radiance: A review of the film Sunshine
  9. Proper Project Orientation
  10. Little Earth
  11. Inside these spans are circles
  12. The Oxygen Garden
  13. Sponsored Living
  14. To delete this building, press 3
  15. Cinematically mobile in the curved underworld of greater London
  16. Wirebus
  17. We’d all be living in dams
  18. The Island of Forgotten Diseases
  19. Gastro-Astronomical Tableware
  20. Snake Of Earth
  21. Fossil Rivers
  22. The Weather Emperors
  23. New York Canyonlands
  24. New York City in Sound
  25. The Sun, the Grid, and the City
  26. Movement
  27. Gold Star Hurricane

June 2007

  1. London Canyonlands (pt. 2)
  2. More space in the space hotel
  3. Disturbing Indeterminate Horizons of Fresh Architecture
  4. The Deck
  5. Ground Conditions
  6. If these reefs are islands
  7. The Labyrinth and the Stairway
  8. Future Ruins
  9. The Storm Room
  10. Aerial Conversationalists
  11. Home Again, Home Again
  12. Phoning glaciers at 3am
  13. Rotating Liverpool
  14. One first senses a disquieting buzzing sound
  15. The blob
  16. The LightHive: Luminous Architectural Surveillance
  17. God is Light
  18. Recapping this week in Manhattan
  19. Le grande finale
  20. It’s Friday, June 1, in New York City

May 2007

  1. Day Three
  2. Day Two
  3. Postopolis! Begins
  4. Manhattan Landfill
  5. BLDGBLOG: The Book / The BLDGBLOG Book
  6. Return to Postopolis!
  7. London 2071
  8. The TransHab: “interiors in space”
  9. Green Trafalgar
  10. Defense Cloud
  11. cinema.bldg: Film Fest Recap
  12. Back to Pasadena: The Film Fest Finishes
  13. Elevator to the underworld
  14. Demolition Day
  15. The Undiscovered Bedrooms of Manhattan
  16. At the end of the tunnel
  17. Architectural Dermatology
  18. Postopolis! Update
  19. Sci-Fi Mecca
  20. The Space of the Bachelor
  21. An Island for Destroyed Cities
  22. Tokyo Revelation
  23. Science Fiction and the City: Film Fest Recap
  24. The Film Fest Cometh!
  25. Great streets, campuses, and pedestrian nostalgia
  26. Postopolis!

April 2007

  1. Landscape Futures
  2. The architecture of solar alignments
  3. Pay-to-Stay Imprisonment
  4. Ancient Lights
  5. Tunnels, mines, and the “upwardly migrating void”
  6. Pantheonic Astronomy
  7. Quick list 9
  8. Solar Organ / Sky Piano
  9. Of Cars, Dogs, Golf, and Bad Feng Shui: An Interview with Jeffrey Inaba
  10. Fortress Europe
  11. Sim Staircase
  12. Precambrian Motorways
  13. Other Landscapes
  14. Stylin’
  15. The disorienting mass of fog-bound outcroppings
  16. Autumn leaves to black flowers
  17. Quick list 8
  18. The Event
  19. The Heliocentric Pantheon: An Interview with Walter Murch
  20. Of jellyfish, loops, site constraints, and canopies
  21. Monocular Landscapes, Unmanned Drones, and the Orbital Future of Australian Archaeology
  22. Don’t Forget!
  23. The Museum of Nature
  24. Bulletproof

March 2007

  1. The Cloud
  2. The Cloud
  3. Return to Cinemapolis
  4. Capital Movements
  5. Capital Times
  6. Fish hatcheries, barrier trees, and a new architectural Tokyo
  7. Ole Bouman Redux
  8. Architecture on Wall Street
  9. Agitation, Power, Space: An Interview with Ole Bouman
  10. Starchitecture and Sustainability
  11. Event Reminder
  12. Amplifier House: Original Domestic Soundscapes
  13. Into the Wind Tunnel: Return of the Film Fest Update!
  14. Urban Planning in Montreal
  15. Science Fiction and the City: Film Fest Update!
  16. Urban Islands
  17. BLDGBLOG in San Francisco
  18. Adventures in Real Estate
  19. Earth’s Secret Surfacing
  20. Cover Bands of Space
  21. Color Shift
  22. TV Mine
  23. High-Rise
  24. Architectural Divorce Court
  25. Ghost Road
  26. Buy a Fort
  27. Buy a Church
  28. An enemy machine gun post on the dome of St. Paul’s
  29. Contraption Structure Bridge
  30. Towers of Silence
  31. By indirections, find elevators out
  32. Architectural Film Fest: Call For Entries
  33. The Guatemala City Abyss
  34. The Wind Bank and the Battery
  35. Infections of the Earth vs. Statue City

February 2007

  1. Mars Bungalow and the Prison of Simulation
  2. Sleep Labs of the Soviet Empire
  3. Valvescape
  4. Interchange Tiles
  5. Structures of the death market
  6. Europe’s Geological Attics
  7. Transparent Soil and the Gardens of Tomorrow
  8. The Museum of Assassination
  9. Churches of remathematization
  10. Cover the Earth
  11. Mars Power!
  12. With nothing else to do but sit here and grow old
  13. “Special Weather Statement”
  14. Funky Little Shack
  15. Mines of medicine
  16. The Botanical Arctic Ark-Archive and the Coming of the Space Seed Garden
  17. Planetary Sandblaster
  18. Urban encrustations
  19. Moebius Underworld
  20. London as it could be
  21. The £84 million flat
  22. Manscape
  23. Pods and perforations
  24. Urban Knot Theory
  25. Abstract Geology
  26. Station Z
  27. Clouds of Mars
  28. Desert elevator

January 2007

  1. Oxygen House
  2. Man preps for big night; thins air in house
  3. Of brick pits, bridges, and a building made from lawns
  4. Architecture and Climate Change: An Interview with Ed Mazria
  5. Laminated into mountains over the course of a billion years
  6. The town at risk from cave-ins
  7. The Planet Miller
  8. Tresor
  9. Geology in the Age of the War on Terror
  10. The Architecture of Managed Retreat
  11. Urban strangeness
  12. The wall
  13. A Mighty City Constructed On A Series Of Variably-Sized Hilly Islands Linked By Bridges
  14. Cancer Villages
  15. Seeing the forest for the tree
  16. Structures-in-a-Petri
  17. Planet Bleach
  18. To eavesdrop on breaking glaciers from within
  19. Architecture as a form of deliberate paranoia
  20. Copenacre Quarry
  21. Yesterday in L.A.
  22. The event
  23. Urban Design Review
  24. On the geotechnical invasion of paradise
  25. Divided Kingdom
  26. The First Million
  27. Quick list 7
  28. The Geostationary Banana Over Texas
  29. Structuring the invisible
  30. Fictional ruins from fictional worlds
  31. Moguls of air
  32. Pamphlet Architecture 29 Awaits…
  33. Climbing Mt. Improbable

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December 2006

  1. Inflationary Spaces of the Aero-Gothic Future
  2. 2006: The Year in Construction
  3. Mies van der Rogaine
  4. Going behind that door
  5. When the doors of the earth slam shut
  6. Architectural Sci-Fi
  7. The crisis of unspecified specificity
  8. Leaving empty space behind
  9. Yahoo! Picks of 2006
  10. Invent-a-Micronation: Contest Results
  11. The Century Giant Lamp Tower
  12. By indirections
  13. Fault massage
  14. Wounded architectures shine
  15. Quick list 6
  16. The Invent-a-Micronation Contest Continues
  17. The London Tornadium
  18. River Visions of a Midwestern Manhattan
  19. Lunar urbanism 8
  20. Bamiyan erasure
  21. Terrestrial weaponization
  22. Science Fiction and the City
  23. War/Photography: An Interview with Simon Norfolk

November 2006

  1. Angles of entrance
  2. Wreck-diving London
  3. Automotive Ossuary
  4. Snowdonia
  5. The mine hijackers
  6. The Lonely Planet Guide to Micronations: An Interview with Simon Sellars
  7. The Invent-a-Micronation Contest…
  8. Gazprom City
  9. architectural-theory.pdf
  10. Tennis, beer, and Tudor houses
  11. Adventures in architectural development
  12. To Catch a Thief
  13. Frog Hotel
  14. An orbiting array of reflective balloons
  15. Utopian Typography
  16. Beijing Underground
  17. Earth’s Surface
  18. The business card and the garden smuggler
  19. Earth Instrument
  20. The Fountain
  21. Payphone Warriors
  22. A lesson in abysses
  23. Tativille
  24. Architecture is killing us all
  25. The Politics of Enthusiasm
  26. Offshore (again)
  27. Parking bands
  28. Fault whispers
  29. Sun-cancellation cloud
  30. Hotelicopter
  31. Paradise Now
  32. War City
  33. The Subterraneans

October 2006

  1. Offshore
  2. The Weather Bowl
  3. Chicago’s Inner Flute-Ruins
  4. sea.net
  5. New Zealand is Droning
  6. BLDGberry
  7. Quick list 5: Energy, tunnels, landscape, and ruin
  8. Overnight in the sleep-pipes
  9. North
  10. How An X-Ray Looks
  11. Project Blackbox
  12. Antarctica’s Underground Sphere-Cathedral
  13. $5.4 billion
  14. The exceptions
  15. Clearing Manhattan
  16. Cosmic Tornado
  17. Return of the Helicopter Archipelago
  18. The Transgondwanan Supermountain
  19. Airports, Tracks, and Factories
  20. Respiratory Oases
  21. The Hearth at Thunder Edge Knoll
  22. Glass avenues of Paris 2054
  23. Enter the Mini-Anti-Earth
  24. Radio Astronomy
  25. B.Y.O.B.
  26. Human Ash Reactions
  27. Struck by loops
  28. The Ring
  29. Architectural Dissimulation
  30. A chance to put his theories into practice

September 2006

  1. City of the Pharaoh
  2. Edinburgh
  3. Alluvial Bends
  4. Quick list 4
  5. Design in the World
  6. Signals of salvation
  7. Science Fiction and the City: An Interview with Jeff VanderMeer
  8. Cistern
  9. Architect of strings
  10. Container Home Kit
  11. Half-Wright
  12. A 1.6km-long carbon ribbon in the skies above Arizona

August 2006

  1. Ratcliffe Power Station
  2. Beijing Orbital
  3. Nuclear Ambition
  4. The U.S. Army Permafrost Tunnel
  5. Dwelling in an age of aeromodernism
  6. The B-flat Range
  7. BLDGBLOG Moves to Los Angeles
  8. Delta force 2
  9. Quick list 3
  10. An Island No More
  11. Real Estate From Above
  12. Freezone
  13. Quick list 2
  14. The endgame, the absent, the void
  15. The Visionary State: An Interview with Erik Davis
  16. 10 Mile Spiral
  17. Inflatable Infrastructure
  18. Urban Design Review
  19. Antarctic Unearthly
  20. Lunar urbanism 7: Being post-terrestrial
  21. Altering Antarctica

July 2006

  1. A Sketch for London
  2. The architecture of spam
  3. Seal Silo
  4. Urban Autobiographies
  5. National sovereignty and the detention market
  6. Printable Airplanes and the Future of Fiction
  7. Voyage to Utopia and the City Obscure
  8. The Dune Sea
  9. Dumpster Gardens
  10. Kew Brew, or: turning endangered landscapes into beer
  11. Psychoacoustic UK
  12. Tupperware City
  13. The geometry of thunder
  14. Architectural Tetris
  15. Fire Maps of Africa
  16. Living batteries and the wire garden
  17. Archigram: The Restaurant
  18. Mud Mosques of Mali
  19. New Maps of Impervious Surfaces
  20. Lake Loss

June 2006

  1. BLDGBLOG Goes to Paris…
  2. Quick list 1
  3. Obliteration A.D.
  4. Earth Surface Machine
  5. Monolith
  6. The Buzz
  7. Chinese Death Vans
  8. Your Concrete Utopia
  9. Sand/Rake Diptych
  10. Lightning Map
  11. Eclipse Camps
  12. Cities of Amorphous Carbonia
  13. The cantilevered void house
  14. Urban Sound Walks
  15. Transformer Houses
  16. Feng Shui Detector
  17. Landscape futures
  18. Student projects 5: ship.bldg
  19. The uttermost reaches of solar influence
  20. Listening to a machine made entirely from windows
  21. The surface of the earth, transformed into objects
  22. Portable entryways

May 2006

  1. Manufacturing arches
  2. resonator.bldg
  3. Rooms of algebraic theology
  4. Urban Atmospheres
  5. Planet of Slums: An Interview with Mike Davis (pt. 2)
  6. Extratextually Terrestial (Paper topographies: 2)
  7. Planet of Slums: An Interview with Mike Davis (pt. 1)
  8. Ring-structure and the vortex
  9. Paper topographies: 1
  10. Tracking Ants
  11. Absolute Superlinearity
  12. Glowing oceans
  13. Nest-casting
  14. Air Wonder Stories
  15. Wormholes in Wood
  16. A Mars Supreme
  17. The total horizon
  18. Autistic Canyons, Icebergs of War, and Architecture Made From Light
  19. RE: mapping the planet
  20. The organ bank and the bubble
  21. Architectural Criticism
  22. A simulated planetary environment in the Utah desert
  23. A cubic meter of fogged space
  24. Dolby Earth / Tectonic Surround-Sound
  25. Greenwich Emotion Map
  26. Islands of Total Cartography

April 2006

  1. Paris 2054
  2. The Garages of Branislav Kropilak
  3. Z
  4. Secret Soviet Submarine Base
  5. In space, no one can hear you pray
  6. Delta force
  7. Grids and surfaces
  8. A Shopper’s Guide to Urban Catastrophe
  9. The Myth of Solid Ground
  10. The library of airplanes
  11. Walking over a valve chamber outside the Brooklyn Academy of Music
  12. talk20: Instant Replay
  13. Avant-botany
  14. The Helicopter Archipelago
  15. Solar geometries
  16. The Clone Road
  17. Your Hidden City: Results
  18. Assembling North America
  19. Talk20
  20. Titan Arch
  21. Remnant landscapes and living rocks
  22. Isolation and change
  23. Other subterranean structures
  24. Hurling Taj Mahals into the Sky
  25. Of ships and archipelagos
  26. Liquid films and water-signs: landscape in an age of information design
  27. The Remote Viewer
  28. For the record
  29. Trafalgar Flu
  30. Super Reef: In Stereo!
  31. The Hollow Earth
  32. Mantleslides
  33. Lunar urbanism 6

March 2006

  1. Pruned Strikes Again
  2. Super Reef
  3. Algorithmic urbanist
  4. In the event of nuclear holocaust…
  5. Radio Haloes of Earth
  6. Resort Hotels of the Stratospheric Future!
  7. Concrete Island
  8. The overlap
  9. The blur
  10. Tokyo Secret City
  11. Central Park Coyote: or, animal urbanism
  12. David Maisel Interview
  13. Molten London Meets The Landscape Printer
  14. Bunker Archaeology
  15. Tatlin’s Tower
  16. A geometry of bombs, inscribed into the planet
  17. Boullée Balloon
  18. Return to Arbonia
  19. Priest’s Grotto
  20. Thousand Mile Colosseum
  21. Faucets of Manhattan
  22. The Island of New Ephemera
  23. San Francisco Bay Hydrological Model

February 2006

  1. BLDGBLOG Goes To California…
  2. Skyscraper Futures: Infected Design
  3. Bride of Climate Change
  4. Unrecognized for what they are
  5. Borderville
  6. Gondolas of New York
  7. Mars Rover: A New Film by BLDGBLOG
  8. Planetarium Among the Dunes
  9. Mars and its stunt double
  10. Euclid Does Kansas
  11. Dessert Landscapes
  12. Terrain vague
  13. Astral labyrinths
  14. The eclipse is a lion with its tail around the sun
  15. A Wheel of Perpetual Enginery
  16. Home Plate
  17. Vent-Based Asteromo
  18. Astronomical imprints: forensics of the sun
  19. Guangxi
  20. omg-it’s-godzilla.bldg
  21. The future urban-modular
  22. Soundtracks for Architecture
  23. House for a river ecologist
  24. Your Hidden City
  25. A Natural History of Mirrors
  26. The birds
  27. The light’s bright trespassing
  28. Soil Maps of Asia
  29. In the suburbs of self-similarity
  30. The Great Man-Made River
  31. Desert Planet

January 2006

  1. Mineral TV and the Archipelago of Abandoned Shopping Malls
  2. Mars v. Thor
  3. Lunar urbanism 5
  4. 2006 Coffeehouse Challenge
  5. New York City of Sound
  6. Orchestra of Bridges
  7. London Canyonlands
  8. Tilt-Shifting Shanghai
  9. Morocco Double-Exposures
  10. “The city as an avatar of itself”
  11. Euclidean Agriculture
  12. Alluvial terrains
  13. Sky Tunnels of Toronto
  14. An electromagnetic Grand Canyon, moving through space
  15. Return of the knot driver
  16. Demolition Sculptures, or: Sandblasting Manhattan
  17. Seeds of the Apocalypse
  18. Stranger TV and the World of Cinemapolis
  19. Landscapes undone
  20. The Lake Project
  21. Terminal Lake
  22. Greater Los Angeles Traffic Galaxies
  23. Snow City
  24. China’s Mudflat Futurism
  25. The 7 New Wonders of the World
  26. Alien Rain On India
  27. Residual Landscapes
  28. art/space
  29. Shanghai
  30. The built environment
  31. Roof-farming southeast London
  32. Architecture 2030
  33. Spinal suburb
  34. The hedge-bridge
  35. Bridge, Ruin, Arches
  36. Urban Diptychs
  37. Optometric Metropolis
  38. Silt

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December 2005

  1. R.I.P.: 2005 AD
  2. Drainscaping Nevada’s Gold
  3. Famous Hulls of the Alaskan Sea
  4. Student projects 4: The scrap lung
  5. The knot driver
  6. Venice Resonator
  7. Best… what?
  8. Falling back to earth, alone
  9. Hydrology
  10. Earth Observatory
  11. The mine, the rivers, the caves
  12. Church of Earth, Magmatic
  13. Student projects 3: Harmonic form
  14. Student projects 2: Germ towers
  15. Simian urbanism
  16. Student projects 1: The carbon tower of Manhattan
  17. Tent City, USA
  18. Falling factories and the drum chamber
  19. Planet Glove
  20. Beijing Boom Tower
  21. It’s parking space time
  22. Aurora Britannica
  23. Globes
  24. Deep Space Hilton
  25. Where cathedrals go to die
  26. The Arbonian Sea
  27. Mapping Gowanus
  28. The Monolithic Dome Institute
  29. BLDGBLOG’s Topographic Map Circus
  30. The Geoacoustic Sea
  31. When landscapes sing: or, London Instrument
  32. India Builds the Futurist Highway
  33. Earthquake Tower
  34. Unhinged and treeborne
  35. Quonset
  36. Florida’s Secret Prison City
  37. Plattenbauten
  38. beirut.bldg
  39. What Remains

November 2005

  1. The Torino Scale
  2. Mount St. Helens of Glass
  3. Scientological Circles
  4. Attack of the lawn-pavers
  5. The Newest River in China
  6. The nylon stairs
  7. Woven interiors
  8. Battersea
  9. The moon, England’s tidal fence and electrical Futurism
  10. Lifting Venice – Again
  11. UPS Vernacular
  12. Lifting Venice
  13. Amazonia Britannica
  14. Bedrock: The Film
  15. Stan Brakhage: Cellscapes
  16. Alien Planet
  17. Tectonic Warfare
  18. Lunar urbanism 4
  19. The coming Kerouac
  20. Cities that clean themselves
  21. On literary hydrology
  22. tropical.bldg
  23. The Corn Pile
  24. Rules of space
  25. Suburban earthworks
  26. At Random
  27. Filaments of space-time
  28. Dubai Before and After
  29. Wormholes
  30. Churches of the void-grinder
  31. Silicon Gardens
  32. London Topological
  33. Floating islands gone wild
  34. earth.mov
  35. The coming of the mega-eco-engineer
  36. Mirny Mine, pt. 2
  37. Embrace the meatscape
  38. Subterranean bunker-cities

October 2005

  1. The Topography of Hell
  2. Uranium tailings and oil fields
  3. Manifestations of miniature architectural texts
  4. Mirror displacements
  5. Garage Conversions
  6. Singapore Bio-utopia
  7. Pontoon City
  8. Elevator hacking
  9. The geometry of traffic control
  10. The Monitor Mine
  11. The Pillars of Tokyo
  12. San Jellocisco
  13. Britain of Drains
  14. Avant-garde plumbing
  15. Lime Works / Mineral Futures / Surface Excavations
  16. BLDGBLOG: Some News and Abuses…
  17. Hyperoxic architecture
  18. Structures of mass wasting
  19. City Idols
  20. Bigsexyland
  21. Roadhenge
  22. Evacuating Manhattan
  23. The skin of Chinese prisoners
  24. New maps of national absence
  25. Graphite cathedral
  26. Foodscaping
  27. The mining industry
  28. Urban coats of arms
  29. Nova Arctica
  30. Landscapes of “a world gone wrong”
  31. Architectural averages
  32. Death’s pyramids and Boullée’s domes
  33. Sections, Tombs, and Stock Exchanges
  34. A Drive-Thru Enemy Landscape
  35. Chernobyl Purgatorio
  36. Bingham Pit, Utah
  37. Earth: 7.5 Billion AD
  38. Nobson Newtown
  39. air/storm/structure
  40. Marlboro Motels
  41. Tree bombs
  42. Earthquake Body Radio

September 2005

  1. Four-dimensional films
  2. Radio Aurora New York
  3. Urban Fossil Value
  4. Space in Hong Kong
  5. Artificial diamonds and the snowflake chamber, pt. 2
  6. Artificial diamonds and the snowflake chamber, pt. 1
  7. Sze Tsung Leong
  8. Space in China
  9. The decay rides
  10. Evidence of architectural thievery
  11. Sound dunes
  12. Soil-bombing Iceland
  13. Das Urpflanze Haus
  14. Privateering America’s prisons, or: “criminal aliens needing beds”
  15. BLDGBLOG: Architecturally Reviewed
  16. White men shining lights into the sky
  17. Podcasting the sun
  18. Katrina 3: Two Anti-Hurricane Projects (on landscape climatology)
  19. Katrina 2: New Atlantis (on flooded cities)
  20. Katrina 1: Levee City (on military hydrology)
  21. Musicalizing the weather through landscape architecture

August 2005

  1. Geomagnetic harddrive
  2. Lunar urbanism 3, or: the radically non-terrestrial
  3. Artificial island for archipelago New York
  4. Lebbeus Woods
  5. Some Towers of Babel
  6. A miniature city waiting for attack
  7. Interactive Nolli map
  8. Simulating, replacing, or otherwise
  9. Ground effects: surrogate earths: *terra infirma*
  10. Ancient riverbeds
  11. Silophone resonance: architecture to play by phone
  12. World’s largest diamond mine
  13. Law enforcement training architecture
  14. Naxos quarries
  15. Ürümqi.bldg, then Moscow to LNDN, via Baghdad, Berlin and Bahrain
  16. Urban rock walks, or: how to podcast a landscape
  17. Fortress urbanism 3
  18. Wind mirrors at 20th & Market, or: feeling the microclimates of distant tectonic events
  19. The hanging gardens of Long Island City
  20. Car park picturesque and the Texas tower
  21. British landscape (and ‘earthquake storms’)
  22. Bldg
  23. Waste-island Ireland and the ‘necklace of incineration’
  24. The light/surface fold: advertisements, Steven Holl, et cetera
  25. Sorkin quote

July 2005

  1. Grant Morrison’s Manhattan
  2. Psychovideography / ‘Fortress Urbanism’
  3. Forest/Machine(s)

June 2005

  1. Herbert West: Reanimator
  2. Tropo-electricity: or, how to turn the sky into a machine
  3. Unworkable devices / Archaeological machines
  4. Kristian Birkeland’s magnetic museum: or, ‘sunspots like no one else can do better’

March 2005

  1. Geotechnics
  2. Milled landscapes / Michael Heizer
  3. Lunar urbanism deux

February 2005

  1. Lunar urbanism
  2. ‘Animaris Mammoth’
  3. 2 architectural suggestions for stopping time

January 2005

  1. bldgblog-as-soundbite

2004 9

August 2004

  1. Buttressed buttresses
  2. The Physics, The Flux, The Architecture
  3. Maunsell Towers Sea Forts
  4. Glass is the ice of sand
  5. Minerals, Fabrics, Molds and Mites

July 2004

  1. Gunkanjima Island
  2. Post-human car park
  3. “Instant City” on Mars
  4. bldgblog 1

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