Scholars on classic books they cherish — or never read – Harvard Gazette

Harvard professors have their likes and dislikes when asked about enduring works of literature. They also have a question: who defines “classic”?

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Wallpaper* USA 300: the people defining creative America | Wallpaper

Discover the Wallpaper* USA 300, celebrating the people defining America’s creative landscape, from design business leaders through celebrity shapeshifters and the new guard

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Educators are updating professional practice courses

A new wave of educators are updating how professional practice courses are delivered in architecture schools.

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Double Vision | Articles | WINDOW RESEARCH INSTITUTE

Misreading windows as screens, and screens as windows, suggests that the frame, or the boundary between what is physical and what is flattened, remains delicately intact. However, long before the advancement of screen technology, the ambiguity between windows and screens was described in various treatises and notes, as if foreshadowing what was to come. By tracing the historical overlap of screens and windows, we can re-imagine each as a mechanism beyond its physical form, ultimately representing a way of seeing.

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