Stories by Reinier de Graaf
“I have a confession to make: I have no idea what placemaking is”
“Listening to any contemporary conversation on architecture is like being indulged in a form of Orwellian Newspeak”
“In the age of big data, everything is quantifiable, even happiness”
“Can a house be beautiful simply because of what we know, not because of what we see?”
“Academics need to break out of their loop and get back into the real world”
“Charisma allows the architect to speak with authority, even when he has no clue”
“The same architecture that once embodied social mobility now helps to prevent it”
“Definitely not a bridge”
“The current crisis has exposed the structural shortcomings of our healthcare systems”
“Too much is at stake to leave architecture to architects”
“Smart devices introduce a fundamental ambiguity over who is in charge”
“The smart city is the ultimate free-for-all”
“The smart city blinds us to the possibility of political action”
“More than just a political system, Europe is a form of modernisation”
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