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Nov 11, 2024 | 
untappedjournal.com | Anne Quito |Deb Chachra |Glenn Adamson |Ian Volner
Can a chair be more than a place to sit? Might a cabinet offer more than storage? In the hands of Wendy Maruyama and Tom Loeser—celebrated artists, educators, and protagonists of the American Studio Craft Movement—furniture transcends function and becomes a catalyst that provokes, perplexes, and ultimately delights.
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Aug 26, 2024 | 
ted.com | Deb Chachra
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Jul 22, 2024 | 
untappedjournal.com | Ian Volner |Anthony Paletta |Owen Hatherley |Deb Chachra
An enterprising publisher could have a lot of fun (though not necessarily make a lot of money) producing an illustrated map of America and calling it A Tour of Small-Town Modernism. Page by page, this hand-dandy travel guide would lead the archi-tourist through some of the lesser-known hotbeds of 20th-century design, carrying them from New Canaan, Connecticut, to Sarasota, Florida, to Boulder, Colorado. The itineraries could vary, and everyone could pick their own.
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Jul 15, 2024 | 
untappedjournal.com | Anthony Paletta |Ian Volner |Owen Hatherley |Deb Chachra
Quality architects are often sure that buildings by anyone else spoil the landscape—see Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright—but are certain that their own are an improvement. W.G. Clark is a designer of exemplary self-doubt, unsure even if his work is an improvement upon anything, including nature.
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Jun 24, 2024 | 
untappedjournal.com | Owen Hatherley |Deb Chachra |Charlie Weak |Edwin Heathcote
Smallbrook Queensway is a boulevard in the center of Birmingham, Britain’s second-largest city, located just around the corner from New Street railway station, one of the United Kingdom’s busiest.
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May 29, 2024 | 
aworkinglibrary.com | Mandy Brown |Deb Chachra
2024-05-29 A Reading Note One of the most inescapable edicts when leading a team is the order to optimize the system towards the organization’s goals. It comes up across industries and at every conceivable stage of an organization, whether an early-stage startup optimizing for experimentation or a later-stage group optimizing for growth or an aged institution optimizing for preserving revenue.
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May 22, 2024 | 
technologyreview.jp | Deb Chachra
1856年、ナポレオン3世は生まれたばかりの息子のためにガラガラを注文した。そのガラガラは、当時知られていた金属の中でも最も貴重なものの1つを使って作られていた。軽くて銀色に輝き、腐食に強いアルミニウムである。豊富に存在し、地球の地殻で3番目に多く見られる元素であるにもかかわらず、アルミニウムは1824年まで鉱石から分離されることがなかった。その工程の複雑さとコストの高さが、このガラガラを王子にふさわしい贈り物にした。大西洋の両側の国で2人の若い研究者（米国のC.M.ホールとフランスのP.L.T.エルー）が、アルミニウムの分離方法を開発したのは1886年だ。この方法は今でもアルミニウムの商業的な精錬に利用されている。このホール・エルー法の工程は、並外れてエネルギーを消費する。化学的に改質した鉱石を高温の溶融鉱物槽の中に溶かし入れ、そこに電流を流して金属のアルミニウムを分離する。アルミニウム自体もまた、本質的にエネルギーの集約である。...
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May 2, 2024 | 
insidehighered.com | Joshua Kim |Deb Chachra |Stephen Markley
May 02, 2024A list of books and reviews on climate change and higher education. You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in.
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Apr 24, 2024 | 
technologyreview.com | Deb Chachra
Desalination is not the only energy-intensive process that would become viable. Aluminum, glass, and steel are among the most recycled materials in part because so much energy is needed to make them from their raw precursors that recovery is economically worthwhile. In contrast, plastics—in their near infinite variety—don’t lend themselves to mechanical recycling except in a handful of cases.
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Apr 18, 2024 | 
insidehighered.com | Joshua Kim |Deb Chachra
You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World, by Deb ChachraPublished in October 2023. There is a lovely section in How Infrastructure Works when Professor Chachra brings her Olin College students on a journey of infrastructural discovery. Running beneath the campus is the Sudbury Aqueduct, a 16-mile-long century-old water tunnel.
