Mark Alan Hewitt
@hewittarch
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Architect, preservationist, author, musician, Quaker, parent, widower.
Joined May 2013
I have not been on this platform for months and will likely quit it soon, but my two posts are necessary today.
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At Carter's memorial service. The fact that a president with no integrity, moral fiber, character or value to society was sitting only steps away from Biden is an irony that will draw the scrutiny of historians for decades.
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Anyone who missed today's memorial service for President Jimmy Carter should see it on YouTube or another platform. It was one of the most important historical events of this century. Joe Biden's eulogy about character compares with the finest orations of any president.
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Can skyscrapers be turned into "gravity batteries?" This is crucial to an argument against high tech green buildings. SOM is just like Exxon, a behemoth that just keeps doing the wrong thing.
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Reminder: Places like these are illegal to build across North America. Legalize storybook urbanism!
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I just lectured at a fabulous conference on hand drawing last Saturday at Carnegie Mellon. Look for it online soon.
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Michael Diamont and Architectural Uprising have caught Bloomberg's attention. A big step I think. https://t.co/A1ArkMiUcu
bloomberg.com
A movement known as Architectural Uprising is pushing back against Scandinavian design trends — and sometimes forcing architects back to the drawing board.
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Take a look at my piece on AI and architects. https://t.co/381Y6Hm8G1
commonedge.org
No technological advance can match the power, memory, and creativity of the human brain.
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Another upcoming study that proves how meager, abstract, scaleless urban environments lead to illnesses like depression. https://t.co/hKGKe3EUoK
neurosciencenews.com
A new study reveals a possible link between depressive symptoms, living in deprived urban neighborhoods, and accelerated aging.
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Just visited Allan Greenberg’s masterpiece in Houston. Magnificent.
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Moving Boundaries 2 in Guadalajara was wonderful and brought more architects and scientists together in community.
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My piece on the book that led me into architecture. I never thought I would need to remind architects of its main weakness, that is where we are today, sadly. https://t.co/qx7j7lAdfK
commonedge.org
Rethinking the meaning of Le Corbusier’s groundbreaking manifesto.
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Things are going downhill fast at Princeton University. Look at my latest piece on Common Edge. https://t.co/7mGYgkhYj3
commonedge.org
Caving to a wealthy donor, the school proposes an out of scale insertion into its historic core.
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Take a good look at this "letter to the editor" at the Architect's Newspaper. It should have been an article. https://t.co/NjaccqXXm5
archpaper.com
Architect Jonathan Ochshorn makes a point on the need to integrate the art of architecture with building science, in his book Building Bad.
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Selldorf has unveiled an even more mediocre scheme for the Sainsbury Wing. Heaven help us.
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Yale School of Architecture just had a memorial tribute to the great Alex Garvin, and another tribute to the aging charlatan, Peter Eisenman. What does this tell you about architectural education?
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The recent letter by architecture school deans to Design Intelligence indicates the sickness that continues to infect our educational system. Though they are correct about inaccurate surveys, they are elitists who cannot see beyond their broken institutions.
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Now that triangular tortilla chip buildings are everywhere, Frito Lay can use them as advertising. Swell. https://t.co/uCmN7B3ipl
archinect.com
Apparently, Doritos are everywhere. What you thought was Bjarke Ingels Group’s VIA 57 West is actually a cheesy tortilla chip. Through a new marketing campaign by Frito-Lay North America titled...
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My post on MB is up on Common Edge. https://t.co/vy4YkKt25w
commonedge.org
A recent conference promises to change the built environment for the better and rejuvenate the design professions.
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