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archatlas · 5 years ago

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Two Hundred Fifty Things an Architect Should Know

by Michael Sorkin

The Temple of Hatshepsut

8. The number of people with rent subsidies in New York City. 9. In your town (include the rich). 10. The flowering season for azaleas. 11. The insulating properties of glass. 12. The history of its production and use. 13. And of its meaning. 14. How to lay bricks. 15. What Victor Hugo really meant by ‘this will kill that.’ 16. The rate at which the seas are rising. 17. Building information modeling (BIM). 18. How to unclog a Rapidograph. 19. The Gini coefficient. 20. A comfortable tread-to-riser ratio for a six-year-old. 21. In a wheelchair. 22. The energy embodied in aluminum. 23. How to turn a corner. 24. How to design a corner. 25. How to sit in a corner. 26. How Antoni Gaudí modeled the Sagrada Família and calculated its structure. 27. The proportioning system for the Villa Rotonda. 28. The rate at which that carpet you specified off-gasses. 29. The relevant sections of the Code of Hammurabi. 30. The migratory patterns of warblers and other seasonal travellers. 31. The basics of mud construction. 32. The direction of prevailing winds. 33. Hydrology is destiny. 34. Jane Jacobs in and out. 35. Something about feng shui. 36. Something about Vastu Shilpa. 37. Elementary ergonomics. 38. The color wheel. 39. What the client wants. 40. What the client thinks it wants. 41. What the client needs. 42. What the client can afford. 43. What the planet can afford. 44. The theoretical bases for modernity and a great deal about its factions and inflections. 45. What post-Fordism means for the mode of production of building. 46. Another language. 47. What the brick really wants. 48. The difference between Winchester Cathedral and a bicycle shed. 49. What went wrong in Fatehpur Sikri. 50. What went wrong in Pruitt-Igoe. 51. What went wrong with the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. 52. Where the CCTV cameras are. 53. Why Mies really left Germany. 54. How people lived in Çatal Hüyük. 55. The structural properties of tufa. 56. How to calculate the dimensions of brise-soleil. 57. The kilowatt costs of photovoltaic cells. 58. Vitruvius. 59. Walter Benjamin. 60. Marshall Berman. 61. The secrets of the success of Robert Moses. 62. How the dome on the Duomo in Florence was built.

Duomo in Florence

63. The reciprocal influences of Chinese and Japanese building. 64. The cycle of the Ise Shrine. 65. Entasis. 66. The history of Soweto. 67. What it’s like to walk down the Ramblas. 68. Back-up. 69. The proper proportions of a gin martini. 70. Shear and moment. 71. Shakespeare, et cetera. 72. How the crow flies. 73. The difference between a ghetto and a neighborhood. 74. How the pyramids were built. 75. Why. 76. The pleasures of the suburbs. 77. The horrors. 78. The quality of light passing through ice. 79. The meaninglessness of borders. 80. The reasons for their tenacity. 81. The creativity of the ecotone. 82. The need for freaks. 83. Accidents must happen. 84. It is possible to begin designing anywhere. 85. The smell of concrete after rain. 86. The angle of the sun at the equinox. 87. How to ride a bicycle. 88. The depth of the aquifer beneath you. 89. The slope of a handicapped ramp. 90. The wages of construction workers. 91. Perspective by hand. 92. Sentence structure. 93. The pleasure of a spritz at sunset at a table by the Grand Canal. 94. The thrill of the ride. 95. Where materials come from. 96. How to get lost. 97. The pattern of artificial light at night, seen from space. 98. What human differences are defensible in practice. 99. Creation is a patient search. 100. The debate between Otto Wagner and Camillo Sitte. 101. The reasons for the split between architecture and engineering. 102. Many ideas about what constitutes utopia. 103. The social and formal organization of the villages of the Dogon. 104. Brutalism, Bowellism, and the Baroque. 105. How to dérive. 106. Woodshop safety. 107. A great deal about the Gothic. 108. The architectural impact of colonialism on the cities of North Africa. 109. A distaste for imperialism. 110. The history of Beijing.

Beijing Skyline

111. Dutch domestic architecture in the 17th century. 112. Aristotle’s Politics. 113. His Poetics. 114. The basics of wattle and daub. 115. The origins of the balloon frame. 116. The rate at which copper acquires its patina. 117. The levels of particulates in the air of Tianjin. 118. The capacity of white pine trees to sequester carbon. 119. Where else to sink it. 120. The fire code. 121. The seismic code. 122. The health code. 123. The Romantics, throughout the arts and philosophy. 124. How to listen closely. 125. That there is a big danger in working in a single medium. The logjam you don’t even know you’re stuck in will be broken by a shift in representation. 126. The exquisite corpse. 127. Scissors, stone, paper. 128. Good Bordeaux. 129. Good beer. 130. How to escape a maze. 131. QWERTY. 132. Fear. 133. Finding your way around Prague, Fez, Shanghai, Johannesburg, Kyoto, Rio, Mexico, Solo, Benares, Bangkok, Leningrad, Isfahan. 134. The proper way to behave with interns. 135. Maya, Revit, Catia, whatever. 136. The history of big machines, including those that can fly. 137. How to calculate ecological footprints. 138. Three good lunch spots within walking distance. 139. The value of human life. 140. Who pays. 141. Who profits. 142. The Venturi effect. 143. How people pee. 144. What to refuse to do, even for the money. 145. The fine print in the contract. 146. A smattering of naval architecture. 147. The idea of too far. 148. The idea of too close. 149. Burial practices in a wide range of cultures. 150. The density needed to support a pharmacy. 151. The density needed to support a subway. 152. The effect of the design of your city on food miles for fresh produce. 153. Lewis Mumford and Patrick Geddes. 154. Capability Brown, André Le Nôtre, Frederick Law Olmsted, Muso Soseki, Ji Cheng, and Roberto Burle Marx. 155. Constructivism, in and out. 156. Sinan. 157. Squatter settlements via visits and conversations with residents. 158. The history and techniques of architectural representation across cultures. 159. Several other artistic media. 160. A bit of chemistry and physics. 161. Geodesics. 162. Geodetics. 163. Geomorphology. 164. Geography. 165. The Law of the Andes. 166. Cappadocia first-hand.

Cappadocia

167. The importance of the Amazon. 168. How to patch leaks. 169. What makes you happy. 170. The components of a comfortable environment for sleep. 171. The view from the Acropolis. 172. The way to Santa Fe. 173. The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. 174. Where to eat in Brooklyn. 175. Half as much as a London cabbie. 176. The Nolli Plan. 177. The Cerdà Plan. 178. The Haussmann Plan. 179. Slope analysis. 180. Darkroom procedures and Photoshop. 181. Dawn breaking after a bender. 182. Styles of genealogy and taxonomy. 183. Betty Friedan. 184. Guy Debord. 185. Ant Farm. 186. Archigram. 187. Club Med. 188. Crepuscule in Dharamshala. 189. Solid geometry. 190. Strengths of materials (if only intuitively). 191. Ha Long Bay. 192. What’s been accomplished in Medellín. 193. In Rio. 194. In Calcutta. 195. In Curitiba. 196. In Mumbai. 197. Who practices? (It is your duty to secure this space for all who want to.) 198. Why you think architecture does any good. 199. The depreciation cycle. 200. What rusts. 201. Good model-making techniques in wood and cardboard. 202. How to play a musical instrument. 203. Which way the wind blows. 204. The acoustical properties of trees and shrubs. 205. How to guard a house from floods. 206. The connection between the Suprematists and Zaha. 207. The connection between Oscar Niemeyer and Zaha. 208. Where north (or south) is. 209. How to give directions, efficiently and courteously. 210. Stadtluft macht frei. 211. Underneath the pavement the beach. 212. Underneath the beach the pavement. 213. The germ theory of disease. 214. The importance of vitamin D. 215. How close is too close. 216. The capacity of a bioswale to recharge the aquifer. 217. The draught of ferries. 218. Bicycle safety and etiquette. 219. The difference between gabions and riprap. 220. The acoustic performance of Boston Symphony Hall.

Boston Symphony Hall

221. How to open the window. 222. The diameter of the earth. 223. The number of gallons of water used in a shower. 224. The distance at which you can recognize faces. 225. How and when to bribe public officials (for the greater good). 226. Concrete finishes. 227. Brick bonds. 228. The Housing Question by Friedrich Engels. 229. The prismatic charms of Greek island towns. 230. The energy potential of the wind. 231. The cooling potential of the wind, including the use of chimneys and the stack effect. 232. Paestum. 233. Straw-bale building technology. 234. Rachel Carson. 235. Freud. 236. The excellence of Michel de Klerk. 237. Of Alvar Aalto. 238. Of Lina Bo Bardi. 239. The non-pharmacological components of a good club. 240. Mesa Verde National Park. 241. Chichen Itza. 242. Your neighbors. 243. The dimensions and proper orientation of sports fields. 244. The remediation capacity of wetlands. 245. The capacity of wetlands to attenuate storm surges. 246. How to cut a truly elegant section. 247. The depths of desire. 248. The heights of folly. 249. Low tide. 250. The Golden and other ratios.

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axwalker · 4 years ago

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¡FELIZ CUMPLEAÑOS, Burnsita!

Today is the birthday of one of the best, most amazing friend I’ve met here @burnsoslow

I still remember that, without knowing me, she reached out to me because she saw in a comment that I was having a bad day. She has a beautiful heart, incredible generosity, an amazing mind and HUGE talent.

I love our long debates about characters (specially a certain Lythikosian Duchess 🤣🤣) our talks about our lives and our undying love for Drake Walker and Ms. Judith Mcnaught.

This Drabble takes place in the Remember Two Things universe, where Lyss is attending Langston University. Alexis is a guest in this universe but I have to say, I LOVE our girls together. They just click and get each other so so well (as their great creators, of course 😉!)

I tried to be as faithful to your amazing character as I could. I hope you won’t hate this.

You know how much I love all your OCs, so I made this little mood board and this mini-dribble in honor of The Devereaux.

I love you ❤️❤️❤️❤️ and again :

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!

Tagging the birthday girl . @burnsoslow and @mskaneko because I know she loves our girls.

Lyss checked her watch and bit her lip trying to make up her mind. She was already 10 minutes late, but she was dying for a coffee, and Starbucks was on the way to the library where she was supposed to meet her study partner. Lexie O’Brien was a Spanish minor like herself and they were working together in a project for Introduction to Literary Analysis. Finally, she decided to go to Starbucks first; it was only a two-minutes detour, and her Spanish always improved after a --much needed-- dose of caffeine. Going to Starbucks was merely a matter of good work ethics.

After waiting more than 10 minutes for her double expresso with cream, Lyss ran to the library only to discover that Lexie was as late as she was. And she was carrying what looked like a chocolate milkshake in her hand. They both laughed and decided that it was probably better to finish their drinks in one of the park's wooden tables next to the library's entry. They talked animatedly for a few minutes before they started working in the project, but Lyss had a date with her beautiful boyfriend that night, and that was a date she couldn't be late for. As crazy about her as Drake was, he wasn't as crazy about her constant impunctuality. Unless he was the one making her late, of course. Which happens a lot, Lyss admitted to herself with a smile.

Lyss took out her computer from her bag and turned it on. "The assignment is to pick a French book and analyze a scene. Now, I know M. Ortega is expecting us to choose one of the books from the syllabus …" She smiled mischievously. "But, I think we could choose a book we actually like. I don't want to be the thousandth pair talking about Don Quijote."

Lexie, wiggled her eyebrow. "So, it is true that great minds think alike." She laughed. "I noticed that Ortega didn't include one single female writer on his list, so I thought it would be interesting to talk about one of them, you know? So, maybe he'll realize women are authors too."

"Perfect," Lyss answered before sipping her coffee.

"She's gorgeous! Is she your mom?" Lexie asked, pointing at Lyss's screensaver.

Her friend nodded, as Lexie kept on talking. “And this incredibly cute baby must be you. You had those amazing eyes even as a little girl.”

Lyss blushed. "My dad gave me this computer the night before coming to Langston. He made a collage with pictures of the three of us and made it my screensaver. He's a softy," she added sweetly.

Lexie heard the pride and affection in Lyss's voice. "He sounds amazing," she said.

"He is. He picked all my favorite pictures. Here, they're on their wedding day," Lyss pointed at the bottom right of the screen. "And this is my dad on his first day at work. He's an attorney." Lexie's gaze shifted to the upper side of the screen, where a serious young man was looking at the ceiling with dreamy eyes. "And here?" Lexie pointed at Lyss's gorgeous mom, who was kissing her dad's hand and felt a pang of longing. Her parents barely spoke to each other when they were married.

"My aunt took that picture. They were in our family house in Michigan. My dad proposed that day. Auntie told me that she had never seen two people more in love than them."

Lexie squeezed Lyss's shoulder. "Do you miss them?"

"Like hell, but we’re going for Thanksgiving," Lyss said excited just to think about her parents meeting Drake. "Do you miss yours?"

"My mom. She's my world,” Lexie replied proudly. “But my father is definitely nothing like yours. You're a lucky girl, Lyss." Lexie took a drink from her milkshake, so Lyss was unable to see her eyes tearing up.

Lyss never, ever took her parents for granted. She was too grateful for them. "I know," she affirmed, suddenly feeling sad for her friend who didn't have a father as wonderful as Patrick Devereaux.

#burns birthday #axwalker writes #trr mc

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thethingssafhaslearnedsofar · 5 years ago

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TWO HUNDRED FIFTY THINGS AN ARCHITECT SHOULD KNOW

Michael Sorkin

1. The feel of cool marble under bare feet. 2. How to live in a small room with five strangers for six months. 3. With the same strangers in a lifeboat for one week. 4. The modulus of rupture. 5. The distance a shout carries in the city. 6. The distance of a whisper. 7. Everything possible about Hatshepsut’s temple (try not to see it as ‘modernist’ avant la lettre). 8. The number of people with rent subsidies in New York City. 9. In your town (include the rich). 10. The flowering season for azaleas. 11. The insulating properties of glass. 12. The history of its production and use. 13. And of its meaning. 14. How to lay bricks. 15. What Victor Hugo really meant by ‘this will kill that.’ 16. The rate at which the seas are rising. 17. Building information modeling (BIM). 18. How to unclog a Rapidograph. 19. The Gini coefficient. 20. A comfortable tread-to-riser ratio for a six-year-old. 21. In a wheelchair. 22. The energy embodied in aluminum. 23. How to turn a corner. 24. How to design a corner. 25. How to sit in a corner. 26. How Antoni Gaudí modeled the Sagrada Família and calculated its structure. 27. The proportioning system for the Villa Rotonda. 28. The rate at which that carpet you specified off-gasses. 29. The relevant sections of the Code of Hammurabi. 30. The migratory patterns of warblers and other seasonal travellers. 31. The basics of mud construction. 32. The direction of prevailing winds. 33. Hydrology is destiny. 34. Jane Jacobs in and out. 35. Something about feng shui. 36. Something about Vastu Shilpa. 37. Elementary ergonomics. 38. The color wheel. 39. What the client wants. 40. What the client thinks it wants. 41. What the client needs. 42. What the client can afford. 43. What the planet can afford. 44. The theoretical bases for modernity and a great deal about its factions and inflections. 45. What post-Fordism means for the mode of production of building. 46. Another language. 47. What the brick really wants. 48. The difference between Winchester Cathedral and a bicycle shed. 49. What went wrong in Fatehpur Sikri. 50. What went wrong in Pruitt-Igoe. 51. What went wrong with the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. 52. Where the CCTV cameras are. 53. Why Mies really left Germany. 54. How people lived in Çatal Hüyük. 55. The structural properties of tufa. 56. How to calculate the dimensions of brise-soleil. 57. The kilowatt costs of photovoltaic cells. 58. Vitruvius. 59. Walter Benjamin. 60. Marshall Berman. 61. The secrets of the success of Robert Moses. 62. How the dome on the Duomo in Florence was built. 63. The reciprocal influences of Chinese and Japanese building. 64. The cycle of the Ise Shrine. 65. Entasis. 66. The history of Soweto. 67. What it’s like to walk down the Ramblas. 68. Back-up. 69. The proper proportions of a gin martini. 70. Shear and moment. 71. Shakespeare, et cetera. 72. How the crow flies. 73. The difference between a ghetto and a neighborhood. 74. How the pyramids were built. 75. Why. 76. The pleasures of the suburbs. 77. The horrors. 78. The quality of light passing through ice. 79. The meaninglessness of borders. 80. The reasons for their tenacity. 81. The creativity of the ecotone. 82. The need for freaks. 83. Accidents must happen. 84. It is possible to begin designing anywhere. 85. The smell of concrete after rain. 86. The angle of the sun at the equinox. 87. How to ride a bicycle. 88. The depth of the aquifer beneath you. 89. The slope of a handicapped ramp. 90. The wages of construction workers. 91. Perspective by hand. 92. Sentence structure. 93. The pleasure of a spritz at sunset at a table by the Grand Canal. 94. The thrill of the ride. 95. Where materials come from. 96. How to get lost. 97. The pattern of artificial light at night, seen from space. 98. What human differences are defensible in practice. 99. Creation is a patient search. 100. The debate between Otto Wagner and Camillo Sitte. 101. The reasons for the split between architecture and engineering. 102. Many ideas about what constitutes utopia. 103. The social and formal organization of the villages of the Dogon. 104. Brutalism, Bowellism, and the Baroque. 105. How to dérive. 106. Woodshop safety. 107. A great deal about the Gothic. 108. The architectural impact of colonialism on the cities of North Africa. 109. A distaste for imperialism. 110. The history of Beijing. 111. Dutch domestic architecture in the 17th century. 112. Aristotle’s Politics. 113. His Poetics. 114. The basics of wattle and daub. 115. The origins of the balloon frame. 116. The rate at which copper acquires its patina. 117. The levels of particulates in the air of Tianjin. 118. The capacity of white pine trees to sequester carbon. 119. Where else to sink it. 120. The fire code. 121. The seismic code. 122. The health code. 123. The Romantics, throughout the arts and philosophy. 124. How to listen closely. 125. That there is a big danger in working in a single medium. The logjam you don’t even know you’re stuck in will be broken by a shift in representation. 126. The exquisite corpse. 127. Scissors, stone, paper. 128. Good Bordeaux. 129. Good beer. 130. How to escape a maze. 131. QWERTY. 132. Fear. 133. Finding your way around Prague, Fez, Shanghai, Johannesburg, Kyoto, Rio, Mexico, Solo, Benares, Bangkok, Leningrad, Isfahan. 134. The proper way to behave with interns. 135. Maya, Revit, Catia, whatever. 136. The history of big machines, including those that can fly. 137. How to calculate ecological footprints. 138. Three good lunch spots within walking distance. 139. The value of human life. 140. Who pays. 141. Who profits. 142. The Venturi effect. 143. How people pee. 144. What to refuse to do, even for the money. 145. The fine print in the contract. 146. A smattering of naval architecture. 147. The idea of too far. 148. The idea of too close. 149. Burial practices in a wide range of cultures. 150. The density needed to support a pharmacy. 151. The density needed to support a subway. 152. The effect of the design of your city on food miles for fresh produce. 153. Lewis Mumford and Patrick Geddes. 154. Capability Brown, André Le Nôtre, Frederick Law Olmsted, Muso Soseki, Ji Cheng, and Roberto Burle Marx. 155. Constructivism, in and out. 156. Sinan. 157. Squatter settlements via visits and conversations with residents. 158. The history and techniques of architectural representation across cultures. 159. Several other artistic media. 160. A bit of chemistry and physics. 161. Geodesics. 162. Geodetics. 163. Geomorphology. 164. Geography. 165. The Law of the Andes. 166. Cappadocia first-hand. 167. The importance of the Amazon. 168. How to patch leaks. 169. What makes you happy. 170. The components of a comfortable environment for sleep. 171. The view from the Acropolis. 172. The way to Santa Fe. 173. The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. 174. Where to eat in Brooklyn. 175. Half as much as a London cabbie. 176. The Nolli Plan. 177. The Cerdà Plan. 178. The Haussmann Plan. 179. Slope analysis. 180. Darkroom procedures and Photoshop. 181. Dawn breaking after a bender. 182. Styles of genealogy and taxonomy. 183. Betty Friedan. 184. Guy Debord. 185. Ant Farm. 186. Archigram. 187. Club Med. 188. Crepuscule in Dharamshala. 189. Solid geometry. 190. Strengths of materials (if only intuitively). 191. Ha Long Bay. 192. What’s been accomplished in Medellín. 193. In Rio. 194. In Calcutta. 195. In Curitiba. 196. In Mumbai. 197. Who practices? (It is your duty to secure this space for all who want to.) 198. Why you think architecture does any good. 199. The depreciation cycle. 200. What rusts. 201. Good model-making techniques in wood and cardboard. 202. How to play a musical instrument. 203. Which way the wind blows. 204. The acoustical properties of trees and shrubs. 205. How to guard a house from floods. 206. The connection between the Suprematists and Zaha. 207. The connection between Oscar Niemeyer and Zaha. 208. Where north (or south) is. 209. How to give directions, efficiently and courteously. 210. Stadtluft macht frei. 211. Underneath the pavement the beach. 212. Underneath the beach the pavement. 213. The germ theory of disease. 214. The importance of vitamin D. 215. How close is too close. 216. The capacity of a bioswale to recharge the aquifer. 217. The draught of ferries. 218. Bicycle safety and etiquette. 219. The difference between gabions and riprap. 220. The acoustic performance of Boston Symphony Hall. 221. How to open the window. 222. The diameter of the earth. 223. The number of gallons of water used in a shower. 224. The distance at which you can recognize faces. 225. How and when to bribe public officials (for the greater good). 226. Concrete finishes. 227. Brick bonds. 228. The Housing Question by Friedrich Engels. 229. The prismatic charms of Greek island towns. 230. The energy potential of the wind. 231. The cooling potential of the wind, including the use of chimneys and the stack effect. 232. Paestum. 233. Straw-bale building technology. 234. Rachel Carson. 235. Freud. 236. The excellence of Michel de Klerk. 237. Of Alvar Aalto. 238. Of Lina Bo Bardi. 239. The non-pharmacological components of a good club. 240. Mesa Verde National Park. 241. Chichen Itza. 242. Your neighbors. 243. The dimensions and proper orientation of sports fields. 244. The remediation capacity of wetlands. 245. The capacity of wetlands to attenuate storm surges. 246. How to cut a truly elegant section. 247. The depths of desire. 248. The heights of folly. 249. Low tide. 250. The Golden and other ratios. https://www.readingdesign.org/

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missizzy · 5 years ago

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Fic: The Klingon’s Mate, Part 3 (Star Trek: Deep Space 9)

Worf went on shift before her the next morning, which made that easier. She ate breakfast with Turink, and listened to him talk about the previous day. There at least she found one mercy: he’d had a good day yesterday. He’d met with two other boys about his mental age on the starbase, including one from a silicon-based species whom he’d found it fun to wrestle with, and so far they were getting along, or so he claimed. “I like it here,” he said. “I know not everybody likes that I’m half-Klingon, but it’s no longer the case that everyone sees me as weak and inferior because of I’m half-Trill, you know?”

“I know,” said Jadzia softly, wishing Worf had been there to hear his son confirm what she’d always been pretty sure of, though she wasn’t sure he would’ve admitted to it in front of his father, that he had received that treatment on Qo’nos.

The medical exam has obviously been more stressful, but at least he had been told he was in good health. It seemed to Jadzia, as she listened to her son talk about it, that he viewed himself as having conquered that exam, and so now was ready to conquer any academic exams too.

It was good to see him adapting well. Especially, she couldn’t help but think, because of what might happen with him if she didn’t avert this disaster. If worst came to worst, he did have two sets of grandparents who were both willing to take him in, although Jadzia’s parents had never seen enough of him for either their or her own liking. She supposed he might do better on Earth than on Trill, where they were more used to aliens, although obviously that he was half-Klingon was going to be a problem anywhere he went outside Klingon space.

His determination to conquer the exams also meant she had no trouble getting him to take up the right padd and buckle down to study before she went on duty. She left him hunched over it and quietly repeating to himself what sounded like a Vulcan scientific equation.

The lab overnight had received a shipment from the planet of newly discovered fossils from Martisheva’s arctic regions, and that kept Jadzia nicely occupied throughout her shift. Had she not had the most dreaded event of her life hanging over her head, she would have been very happy that day. Even as it was, she could not help but marvel over a couple of them that were millions of years old, containing evidence of some of the earliest life that evolved on the planet, forgetting everything for a moment or so.

Two hours before her shift ended, she was just entering the results of her analysis of one of the newer ones, which had a lot of information attached to it, when Commander Sand came in. He was not someone Jadzia would’ve expected that day at all, and nor was he something she at all wanted to deal with, not before she knew which way her entire life was about to go.

He first looked around to see if they were alone, then said, “Unfortunately I have bad news. Yesterday when I offered you a position as my first officer, you asked if I could bring your husband on board as well. I asked about this, and I now can confirm the answer is no. The Admiral who has the charge of the command is insisting I take one of his people for head of Security, as well as for Engineering, and your husband is too high-ranked to be under him either. He would’ve been overqualified anyway, honestly.

I know you’ll probably turn the position down now, but I would still ask, Commander, that you not do so this moment. Please take the extra day?”

Had he asked this the previous day, her superior or no, Jadzia probably would have officially given him her refusal right then anyway. Aside from the knowledge that she couldn’t take it, it displeased her when superior officers made these kind of pressure-filled requests to her, and it also raised the question of how happy she’d be serving under him, even if the position was in every other way what she’d always wanted. But now she was aware she might just need what that new position and rank could bring her. She could write Nerys her recommendation, for one thing.

“Very well,” she said. “I’ll give you my answer tomorrow night.” If for any reason Julian failed her, she doubted Nerys would take that long to act. In fact, she was hoping she at least would give her time enough and not act sooner.

She went back and forth about comming her as she went to Julian’s. But she ultimately decided against it. Best not to give her any hopes until they could be fulfilled. Besides, Worf might or might not be too busy to talk to her anyway.

When she rang the bell, she heard Julian’s, “Jadzia? Is that you?” which sounded nervous and unlike him. When she called out, “Yes, it’s me,” the door slid open to reveal him still in uniform, but in his blue undershirt; he even still had his boots on. “Come in quickly,” he said.

He’d been on the starbase a little longer than Jadzia and Worf had, which made it shocking that he hadn’t unpacked. His suitcases sat by the table, one of them opened out on the floor with its contents scattered and spilling over. The rest of the room was bare; he hadn’t even set up the holo of his family that had been taken after his father had finally been released. “Wow,” she commented, “have they been keeping you extra busy or something?”

“No,” said Julian. “It’s a little more complicated than that. Or maybe simpler. Sit down.”

Something was wrong, obviously. In fact, when she took a close look at Julian now, Jadzia saw other things, like that it didn’t look like he’d been sleeping much, and, more than that, he looked almost ill. “I suppose I should get you a drink,” he said. “You might want it too, I’m afraid.”

“No,” she said, because she couldn’t afford it for her side of this conversation. Although vital as that was to her and Worf’s future, it was getting harder to concentrate on that, when all she could think was a desperate What’s wrong with him, please…

He looked over at the replicator, then shook his head. “I should be sober for this conversation myself,” he said. “I suppose after it I can drink all I want now, until…”

“Until what?!” That sounded like…No. No, please no…

“Well,” he took a deep breath. “Remember when I once said I was glad that the person who did my genetic resequencing knew what he was doing? Well, it turns out, he made a mistake. A tiny one, which for over thirty years didn’t matter, but in genetic engineering, even the slightest thing off will spell disaster sooner or later, and later has become now. Became it a few months ago, actually, when I started having memory issues. Took me most of the time since to find out what the problem was.”

“And the prognosis?” Jadzia asked. Please, let the answer be anything but…

“It’s not an absolute one yet,” sighed Julian. “I might not even get that; it’s not like there are many examples we doctors can look to in order to get one. But given what’s breaking down in here?” He sadly tapped his forehead. “Death might be what will happen if I’m lucky.”

“No, that can’t be true!” Jadzia protested. “And can’t they go back in and fix you, like you did to Sarina?”

“I’ve looked into that.” He sounded so, so tired. “But my brain issues aren’t the same as hers. If I had a year, maybe I could come up with a version of the operation I performed on her which would work on me, or some colleague could. But in a year, if I’m still alive? I’ll be a blubbering idiot unable to remember what happened a few days ago if I’m lucky, and even less capable of doing anything if I’m not, and probably beyond the kind of help that Sarina had. They’ll have to take me to the institution they still keep Jack and Patrick and Lauran in, and what will they think, seeing me as in worse condition than even them-though they might not even be allowed to see me, to keep them from being traumatized.”

“But it’s not absolute.” Jadzia felt herself grasping at what she could.

“It’s over a 90% chance.”

As Jadzia still sat there, trying to face what she was realizing was the unfaceable, he said, “I made what’s going to be the closest I’ll get to a full diagnosis a couple of days ago. Right now I’m trying to settle my affairs, and taking care of a few last things. Tomorrow morning I’m going to hand in my resignation. I’m going to go home, go see my parents, then probably do some more traveling; there have been some places I’ve always wanted to see. I probably have at least a couple of months before I really start to degenerate. If I have time I’ll come see you again, but once I really start to go, I don’t want any of you to see me like that.”

The thought that this might be the last she ever saw of Julian made Jadzia burst into tears, rough, fast ones that nearly ripped themselves out of her eyes. And now he was moving around and giving her a hug, he, who should be the one crying, not her, but she was just feeling so weak and worn, and she wanted to just spill everything, not even for the sake of making her request, but just so Julian would know, so there wouldn’t be that awful barrier between them.

“Oh, Jadzia,” he sighed, and pressed the chastest of kisses into her hair. “You know, for the first time, I’m happy you married Worf. I think…maybe you know why I wasn’t before this. But imagine if I was your husband, and now this was happening to he who you’d been planning to spend the rest of your life with. Now you’ll cry for me, but you’ll still have him, and your beautiful little boy…”

“Beautiful!” Even under the circumstances, Jadzia couldn’t help but snort through her tears. “You know most wouldn’t describe it that way.”

“He’s your son. Of course he’s beautiful.”

“You shouldn’t be talking to me like this,” sobbed Jadzia. “You shouldn’t feel like that about me. You should feel that way about…”

“About who?” It was his turn to snort. “About someone else that in a year’s time I’d then either make a widow or burden with a literal idiot husband who she’d have to divorce is she had any sense? No, I think things have worked out for the best.”

But you should never feel that way about yourself. Not even if he was about to die, not even then, because as far as Jadzia was concerned, Julian deserved the love and devotion she had never been able to give him, and the woman who would travel with him and nurse him to the bitter end and be thankful even in her grief that she’d gotten to have him.

Besides, if she’d married him, she wouldn’t have committed the sin she had. There wouldn’t have been a need, probably. But then again, she’d always known that marrying Julian would have led to her having a much easier life, even if she’d never given too much thought to it. She’d never made her choices based on what was easy.

And she wasn’t going to now, either. It would be easy, she thought, to explain everything. She thought if she did, Julian would give up the last months of his life, take the promotion and use it to save her and Worf. It was the logical thing to do, he would say; they had their entire lives to live out preserved from disaster; what was one year compared to that? Jadzia could tell herself that as well, repeat to herself that Julian had willingly made the choice, and also that she’d done what she’d had to do. She could do that every day for the rest of her life, and eventually, she thought, she wouldn’t even feel that guilty anymore.

But thinking about doing all that, taking advantage of this man, who had loved her for years, quietly and resignedly after he had been forced to give up all hope, who had acted as her friend and often confident, listening without complaint whenever she’d been mad at Worf, even helped them have Turink…it made Jadzia feel ill. She wasn’t going to do it, not even for this.

Except now Julian was looking at her and saying, “Is there anything you need to tell me? It looks to me like there is.” Nothing in his voice besides concern; he wasn’t even hoping for a declaration of feeling or anything like that.

“Nothing you need to worry about now,” she said. “Or should.”

“No, Jadzia,” he said. “I know you. You’re trying to spare me something, and please, don’t do that out of pity.”

“I can’t,” she protested. “I can’t take advantage of you. I’d be a monster if I did.”

“Jadzia, please, if you need my help…you ought to have known already I’d do anything for you, and that’s even more true now, when what would I lose by doing it?” He was getting up from his seat now, moving to kneel at her feet, and that sight was not one Jadzia was ever going to be willing to see. In a desperate move to stop him she grabbed him to pull him up, a desperate tiny please escaped her, and next thing she knew they were kissing, hard and deep.

It felt good, better than Jadzia had ever thought it might. Her hands found Julian’s face; his skin was soft. He didn’t even flinch from how cold she knew her hands were. His arms were around her, and he was kissing without shame, making tiny sounds into her mouth that Jadzia thought just might wreck her.

Some tiny voice in the back of her mind was yelling at her to pull back, but she wasn’t listening, not right now. Now instead she heard the blood roaring in her ears, the shifting of cloth against cloth, the overwhelming part of her brain that just wanted to go on kissing this man forever.

She didn’t even know how long they’d kissed for when they finally parted, foreheads still pressed together. She kept her eyes and hands on that flushed, panting face, tried to memorize the feel of it beneath her hands, since she knew she’d certainly never touch it again, even if she perhaps might again see it.

“There’s no one in my life who’s meant to me what you have,” he finally breathed. “Even if I had longer to live, I don’t know if there ever could be, though that doesn’t really matter now.” He shook his head. “I shouldn’t be troubling you with this part.”

“Quit acting like you’re now just a burden on the universe!” she cried, feeling even worse when he gently but firmly pushed away from her. “You never were and you never will be.”

But Julian was shaking his head. “If you don’t want my help, you should go. Before you possibly do something you’ll regret for the rest of your life.”

The crazy thing was, while she’d no doubt feel guilty afterwards, Jadzia wasn’t sure she would actually regret it. She knew she ought to, but some instinct warned her the feeling wouldn’t come, at least so long as Worf never found out.

So much where it would all be fine, just as long as her husband never found out.

It was that awareness, and the fear, that got Jadzia to do as he had said, to turn around and start walking out, the door barely getting open for her in time, fast enough there wasn’t time to feel any temptation to look back. For ten more minutes after even that she strode down the corridor, at least one ensign scurrying out of her way, putting more distance between herself and the man she still wasn’t sure she wouldn’t want to run back to if she stopped to think.

Eventually she began to tire; it had been a long day of worrying even before this. She slowed her pace down, but continued walking, making her way back to her quarters.

By the time she got there, she had relived that kiss three times, each time pushing it from her mind, knowing she needed to forget it had happened, even though she also knew she never would. Worf wouldn’t be in, she reminded herself. Turink wouldn’t either. No one would be in their quarters, and she would be safely alone to break down and cry and figure out how she was going to live even with losing Julian like this, let alone the even worse thing happening at the moment.

Except Nerys was there. Jadzia hadn’t even known she knew how to break through Starfleet locks. She was so shocked she was completely unable to speak as she just stood there, then at Nerys’ impatient gesture finally stepped forward just enough for the door to close behind her.

“I just had another exchange of messages with Worf,” she said. “I won’t even repeat what he said. Honestly, I’m starting to lose a lot of my respect for him. Enough that I really don’t feel bad about doing what I’ll have to do now.”

That just made Jadzia know what she herself now had to do. She wished she had a knife on her. Then she could’ve done it right away. But instead she could only hiss, “You won’t. I won’t let you. In fact, you’d better contact Worf right and now and tell him you’re about to lose all your power over him, because it’ll be gone with me!”

She hadn’t even finished talking before she started a purposeful stride towards the kitchenette, but before she could get more than a couple of meters Nerys, her resistance-fighter reflexes undulled by all the years that had passed, was in front of her, with a, “No, Jadzia, you’re not killing yourself.”

“You,” Jadzia growled, “do not get to act like you’re my friend anymore, especially not when you’re driving me to do this to protect my husband.”

“Fine, then. You kill yourself right now and I’ll frame him for murder.”

She obviously could, and at the moment, Jadzia couldn’t think of an immediate way to off herself which would make it impossible for Nerys to make it look like she’d been killed. She sagged, and said, “Well, I know what he said to you when you told him.”

“Told him? Oh,” Nerys shook her head. “Actually, I haven’t told him anything yet. He didn’t give me a chance. But the minute I get back to my quarters, I’m going to start writing a message to him. I don’t know if I’ll finish it tonight, but I’ll try. Do you know, if you kill yourself after I walk out of here, and I still go public with the story, anyone who even slightly believes in any of the Klingon stereotypes will find a way to blame him for it, even if they don’t think he did it himself?”

“You don’t get the chance to frame him, then what does that matter?” Jadzia could have laughed, had she felt less devastated. “He won’t care what any of them think.”

“But I think you would. And I’m pretty sure, sooner or later, that your son would.”

That last one stopped Jadzia’s thoughts in their tracks. Nerys could tell, too, and she pressed on: “You want to condemn him to grow up with two parents disgraced, one dead? And you know Worf needs help when it comes to raising children. Just look at the whole sequence of events that happened with his first son.”

“That wasn’t entirely his fault,” Jadzia growled, repeating the speech she’d made more than once. “His parents struggled with Alexander first.”

“Yeah, Alexander, who didn’t get along with his peers, who struggled with only being partially Klingon, and whose mother died a violent death when he was young. Sound familiar?”

It did, all too much. And then Nerys said, “But I do know one thing Worf would do, what any good parent would do. That’s protect his children at all costs. Even that of his honor.”

“You don’t know what Worf would do.” Not like Jadzia herself did.

“I worked alongside him, much more closely than you did, at times. I know enough. I know that I’ll get even more than my recommendation out of him now. That was all I would have demanded, you know, when this whole thing started. Foolish of me. I’ve thought since, of what will probably await me when I reach Earth. Don’t tell me they’ll want me there. I know they won’t. They might still grant me admission. From what I understand about Federation-Bajoran relations right now, they’ll probably worried Bajor will be offended if they don’t. I need all the paperwork in order, but if I get it, I get that much.

But do you really think they won’t look for any excuse, and I mean any, to throw me out once I get there? Or, if they can’t find one, they won’t make sure I never obtain any rank above Ensign? And I’ve worked too hard and lost too much-”

“Yeah,” Jadzia interrupted, her rage kicking in, “like all of your morals.”

But she was chilled to the bone by the complete lack of change in Nerys’ expression, and the cold way she replied, “You haven’t seen anything yet, Jadzia. You and Worf, you’ll both be dealing with me for a long time. I get expelled, it all comes out. And after I graduate, you’ll get me up to my old rank as fast as possible. Since the start of this, by the way, I’ve been hoping I might eventually get myself into a position where I can help Bajor, but then, I was worried the way things go at Starfleet, I might be old before I got that far. But you two, you’re going to get me there within a few years.”

“Are you truly going to try to justify yourself?!” Jadzia demanded, even more appalled. “When once, the Kira Nerys I knew…”

“The Kira Nerys you know had a history of doing sometimes violent things indeed when her planet was at stake,” she retorted. “Things that sometimes pushed the boundaries of interplanetary law, at the very least. I know you don’t like to remember that, of course, didn’t like to think of the fact that at one time I was a terrorist.”

“Only because you had to be. Bajor’s not going to be in that situation again.”

“You don’t know what’s going to happen on Bajor.” There was a very real resentment in the way she said that. “Even if the Cardassians aren’t really in shape to do what they once did to it again, no society recovers that quickly. And you saw what happened a year after the Occupation ended, and what’s happened most recently. For the record, Jadzia, I would give my life to prevent that from happening again.”

“That’s your life, not mine,” Jadzia protested. “That’s still at stake here.”

“Didn’t I just point out how killing yourself will do Worf no good? I’ll get what I want either way. And in fact, speaking of your marriage,” and there was something new her tone here, some hint of genuine regret, “don’t you think you should’ve told your husband about all of this, long ago?”

“You really don’t understand…”

“Maybe I don’t. But you know what, Jadzia? I’m going to do you one last favor, explaining this to him. I’ll even try to emphasize that you really felt you needed to do it to keep him alive. I do feel he ought not to be angry with you, though I suppose it’s too much to hope for he won’t be. At least you won’t have to keep any dark secrets from him anymore.”

Had she said only an hour ago, of course, that would’ve been true. And Jadzia certainly wasn’t telling her now why it no longer would be.

So instead she remained silent, as Nerys turned and walked out. The door was in the process of closing behind her when she turned and said, “You have six hours to tell him before I do.”

After stumbling into the nearest chair, for a few minutes, all Jadzia could do was cry. She thought of the life she’d planned to have, the things she might now not get to see, such as her son growing up. When she thought of what Nerys had just said, she found she wasn’t sure which option would be worse, Turink growing up with a mother who had committed suicide, or him growing up with parents disgraced by his father’s race, and both of them probably struggling to live with everything that had happened.

Anger kicked in next. Jadzia wanted to go out and yell at everyone. Nerys, Worf, the Klingon who had refused to not kill him when anyone with either sense or decency would’ve backed down, and everyone else she could even partly blame. She even thought uncharitably of Odo, of how if he hadn’t left the woman he’d supposedly loved so much and for so long, she might have avoided much of the downward spiral she’d gone down that had led them to this.

But then again, she found herself thinking, maybe she should be nicer to Odo. Because as she sat there, she came to realize that her next course of action had to be to disclose everything to someone, make a statement of truth they could attest to, and Odo was pretty much the only person she had for it.

So when she pulled herself up, her tears mostly dried, she went to comm him, to ask him to please come as quickly as possible.

Much to her relief, he answered only a couple of minutes later, saying he was on his way. But when Jadzia checked the chronometer, she discovered enough time had passed that Worf would soon be back as well.

And, unfortunately, it was her husband, rather than Odo, who walked in first. Somehow Jadzia found herself blurting out, “Nerys just said to me the two of you talked again.”

“Jadzia,” the warning tone in his voice was unmistakable, “I do not wish to further discuss this matter, and you ought not to waste your time when I will not change my mind.”

She shouldn’t have hoped for otherwise. But she still asked, “Just tell me what she said in response. I’m kind of worried she’s mad at me, but she didn’t give me anything to go on.”

“She ought not to have become that foolish. And she said very little in response, at least then, though she did indicate she might soon send me a message.”

Before Jadzia could even react to that, the doorchime sounded. “That’s probably Odo,” she said. “I just need to talk to him about something that came up in the lab today.” She’s in front of the door when it opens, and before he can speak she says, “Odo! So glad you got here so quickly. Let’s talk about the readings off those weird quartz stones out here; I’m not sure the commander wants me talking about them around anyone else, even my husband.”

When they were safely out in the corridor, he hissed at her, “And what if he happens to hear there aren’t any ‘weird quartz stones’ on the Starbase?”

“He won’t,” she replied. “He rarely pays attention to what I’m doing in the lab if something hasn’t given him a reason to. Do you have a communicator?”

“They gave me a handheld.” He pulled it out of a side pocket. “Who do you want me to contact? I…I don’t think I could do this with Nerys over a comm.”

“Noone. I just want you to record this and be able to testify to its veracity later, if that becomes necessary.”

“What? Commander, you…”

“Five years ago, when Worf and I escaped Dominion custody, he was asleep when we received a distress call from Yarmok III.” She told the entire story, holding up a hand whenever a shocked-looking Odo tried to interrupt, finishing, “Since then, Worf has never had any idea that any of this has happened. I hearby make it my dying declaration that all I have just said is true and accurate to the best of my knowledge and memory, and that Mr. Odo, who is making this recording, can attribute that it is not in any way doctored.” She then reached over and turned the communicator off.

“Your dying declaration?” Odo now sounded horrified.

“That makes it admissible in all Federation courts. I don’t know about Klingon ones, but I don’t think they’d be all that likely to outright charge Worf with anything; the biggest danger he’d be in legally would be a court-martial-and one look at this recording and they’d never go forward with it, what with all the other circumstances involved.”

Odo just shook his head. “Jadzia, you don’t intend to die, do you?!”

She has to explain this now, which she never thought she’d have to do, or maybe just really hoped. “Odo,” she said, “Nerys knows what happened; I don’t even know how she found out, but it doesn’t really matter. And she’s…” This is really going to break his heart. “The things she suffered while you were gone, the state it reduced her to…she is now threatening to make this public. In which case…” Here came the part she could only really half explain. “Worf would do something wonderful, and miraculous, and that I couldn’t stand to live with him having done, because he would do it for me. I couldn’t stand to live with it.”

“And yet it’s wonderful and miraculous?” Odo was just shaking his head.

Maybe she could’ve explained it if she’d had more time. But it was only so long before Worf would come out to check on them. Even now, she was trying to figure out what to say to him when they came back in.

After another moment, Odo said, “Listen, Jadzia, maybe it still doesn’t have to come to that. I may know that Nerys went through a good deal, but I still can’t believe she truly wants to do this to you, that she wouldn’t maybe listen if I tried to talk to her. It’s worth a shot, I think."

Normally Jadzia would’ve hesitated, would’ve not wanted to put Odo through that if he still wasn’t ready. But at this point she was truly desperate. And anyway, it might ultimately be very good for them both to finally talk.

“All right,” she said. “She’s given me six hours before she contacts Worf.”

As if this last utterance of his name had summoned him, the doors to their quarters slid back open, and her husband peered outside. Before he could ask, Jadzia quickly put her smile back on, saying, “Odo and I are just wrapping up the serious business for the day, and now if you want to have him over for dinner…” Probably he’d say no.

But to her surprise, he said, “Very well.”

It was all right, she told herself. It would only be a couple of hours. After that he’d still have time.

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TWO HUNDRED FIFTY THINGS AN ARCHITECT SHOULD KNOW

Michael Sorkin

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54. How people lived in Çatal Hüyük. 55. The structural properties of tufa. 56. How to calculate the dimensions of brise-soleil. 57. The kilowatt costs of photovoltaic cells. 58. Vitruvius. 59. Walter Benjamin. 60. Marshall Berman. 61. The secrets of the success of Robert Moses. 62. How the dome on the Duomo in Florence was built. 63. The reciprocal influences of Chinese and Japanese building. 64. The cycle of the Ise Shrine. 65. Entasis. 66. The history of Soweto. 67. What it’s like to walk down the Ramblas. 68. Back-up. 69. The proper proportions of a gin martini. 70. Shear and moment. 71. Shakespeare, et cetera. 72. How the crow flies. 73. The difference between a ghetto and a neighborhood. 74. How the pyramids were built. 75. Why. 76. The pleasures of the suburbs. 77. The horrors. 78. The quality of light passing through ice. 79. The meaninglessness of borders. 80. The reasons for their tenacity. 81. The creativity of the ecotone. 82. The need for freaks. 83. Accidents must happen. 84. It is possible to begin designing anywhere. 85. The smell of concrete after rain. 86. The angle of the sun at the equinox. 87. How to ride a bicycle. 88. The depth of the aquifer beneath you. 89. The slope of a handicapped ramp. 90. The wages of construction workers. 91. Perspective by hand. 92. Sentence structure. 93. The pleasure of a spritz at sunset at a table by the Grand Canal. 94. The thrill of the ride. 95. Where materials come from. 96. How to get lost. 97. The pattern of artificial light at night, seen from space. 98. What human differences are defensible in practice. 99. Creation is a patient search. 100. The debate between Otto Wagner and Camillo Sitte. 101. The reasons for the split between architecture and engineering. 102. Many ideas about what constitutes utopia. 103. The social and formal organization of the villages of the Dogon. 104. Brutalism, Bowellism, and the Baroque. 105. How to dérive. 106. Woodshop safety. 107. A great deal about the Gothic. 108. The architectural impact of colonialism on the cities of North Africa. 109. A distaste for imperialism. 110. The history of Beijing. 111. Dutch domestic architecture in the 17th century. 112. Aristotle’s Politics. 113. His Poetics. 114. The basics of wattle and daub. 115. The origins of the balloon frame. 116. The rate at which copper acquires its patina. 117. The levels of particulates in the air of Tianjin. 118. The capacity of white pine trees to sequester carbon. 119. Where else to sink it. 120. The fire code. 121. The seismic code. 122. The health code. 123. The Romantics, throughout the arts and philosophy. 124. How to listen closely. 125. That there is a big danger in working in a single medium. The logjam you don’t even know you’re stuck in will be broken by a shift in representation. 126. The exquisite corpse. 127. Scissors, stone, paper. 128. Good Bordeaux. 129. Good beer. 130. How to escape a maze. 131. QWERTY. 132. Fear. 133. Finding your way around Prague, Fez, Shanghai, Johannesburg, Kyoto, Rio, Mexico, Solo, Benares, Bangkok, Leningrad, Isfahan. 134. The proper way to behave with interns. 135. Maya, Revit, Catia, whatever. 136. The history of big machines, including those that can fly. 137. How to calculate ecological footprints. 138. Three good lunch spots within walking distance. 139. The value of human life. 140. Who pays. 141. Who profits. 142. The Venturi effect. 143. How people pee. 144. What to refuse to do, even for the money. 145. The fine print in the contract. 146. A smattering of naval architecture. 147. The idea of too far. 148. The idea of too close. 149. Burial practices in a wide range of cultures. 150. The density needed to support a pharmacy. 151. The density needed to support a subway. 152. The effect of the design of your city on food miles for fresh produce. 153. Lewis Mumford and Patrick Geddes. 154. Capability Brown, André Le Nôtre, Frederick Law Olmsted, Muso Soseki, Ji Cheng, and Roberto Burle Marx. 155. Constructivism, in and out. 156. Sinan. 157. Squatter settlements via visits and conversations with residents. 158. The history and techniques of architectural representation across cultures. 159. Several other artistic media. 160. A bit of chemistry and physics. 161. Geodesics. 162. Geodetics. 163. Geomorphology. 164. Geography. 165. The Law of the Andes. 166. Cappadocia first-hand. 167. The importance of the Amazon. 168. How to patch leaks. 169. What makes you happy. 170. The components of a comfortable environment for sleep. 171. The view from the Acropolis. 172. The way to Santa Fe. 173. The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. 174. Where to eat in Brooklyn. 175. Half as much as a London cabbie. 176. The Nolli Plan. 177. The Cerdà Plan. 178. The Haussmann Plan. 179. Slope analysis. 180. Darkroom procedures and Photoshop. 181. Dawn breaking after a bender. 182. Styles of genealogy and taxonomy. 183. Betty Friedan. 184. Guy Debord. 185. Ant Farm. 186. Archigram. 187. Club Med. 188. Crepuscule in Dharamshala. 189. Solid geometry. 190. Strengths of materials (if only intuitively). 191. Ha Long Bay. 192. What’s been accomplished in Medellín. 193. In Rio. 194. In Calcutta. 195. In Curitiba. 196. In Mumbai. 197. Who practices? (It is your duty to secure this space for all who want to.) 198. Why you think architecture does any good. 199. The depreciation cycle. 200. What rusts. 201. Good model-making techniques in wood and cardboard. 202. How to play a musical instrument. 203. Which way the wind blows. 204. The acoustical properties of trees and shrubs. 205. How to guard a house from floods. 206. The connection between the Suprematists and Zaha. 207. The connection between Oscar Niemeyer and Zaha. 208. Where north (or south) is. 209. How to give directions, efficiently and courteously. 210. Stadtluft macht frei. 211. Underneath the pavement the beach. 212. Underneath the beach the pavement. 213. The germ theory of disease. 214. The importance of vitamin D. 215. How close is too close. 216. The capacity of a bioswale to recharge the aquifer. 217. The draught of ferries. 218. Bicycle safety and etiquette. 219. The difference between gabions and riprap. 220. The acoustic performance of Boston Symphony Hall. 221. How to open the window. 222. The diameter of the earth. 223. The number of gallons of water used in a shower. 224. The distance at which you can recognize faces. 225. How and when to bribe public officials (for the greater good). 226. Concrete finishes. 227. Brick bonds. 228. The Housing Question by Friedrich Engels. 229. The prismatic charms of Greek island towns. 230. The energy potential of the wind. 231. The cooling potential of the wind, including the use of chimneys and the stack effect. 232. Paestum. 233. Straw-bale building technology. 234. Rachel Carson. 235. Freud. 236. The excellence of Michel de Klerk. 237. Of Alvar Aalto. 238. Of Lina Bo Bardi. 239. The non-pharmacological components of a good club. 240. Mesa Verde National Park. 241. Chichen Itza. 242. Your neighbors. 243. The dimensions and proper orientation of sports fields. 244. The remediation capacity of wetlands. 245. The capacity of wetlands to attenuate storm surges. 246. How to cut a truly elegant section. 247. The depths of desire. 248. The heights of folly. 249. Low tide. 250. The Golden and other ratios.

Published in: Michael Sorkin, What Goes Up, London: Verso, 2018.

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Tuesday, March 8, 2022

Covid deaths (1440) The number of reported global deaths attributed to COVID-19 passed 6 million overnight, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. The symbolic mark was surpassed just days shy of the two-year anniversary of the declaration of a global pandemic March 11, 2020. The US accounts for roughly 16% of total reported deaths, followed by Brazil (10%), India (9%), Russia (6%), and Mexico (5%). More than 445 million total cases have been reported. Meanwhile, the number of new cases reported in the US continues to fall, dropping below 50,000 per day.

Gas tops $4 per gallon average, 1st time since 2008 (AP) The price of regular gasoline broke $4 per gallon (3.8 liters) on average across the U.S. on Sunday for the first time since 2008. During the first full week of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the price of regular gas rose by almost 41 cents, according to the AAA motor club. “As Russia’s war on Ukraine continues to evolve and we head into a season where gas prices typically increase, Americans should prepare to pay more for gas than they ever have before,” Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis for GasBuddy, said in a statement. The all-time high for average gasoline prices was set in July 17, 2008 at $4.10 per gallon.

Ukraine crisis overview (NYT) Today’s front page of The New York Times featured a powerful photo taken by Lynsey Addario, who witnessed civilians killed while fleeing the Russian advance in Irpin, near Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv. A woman, her teenage son and her daughter, who appeared to be about 8 years old, and a family friend—among the many panicked civilians running for cover—were killed when they were hit by a mortar that landed in the street. The attack suggested that Russian forces had either directly targeted evacuees or disregarded the risk to civilians. The tactic is being witnessed across Ukraine as Russian forces step up indiscriminate attacks on civilians and lay siege to cities, trapping residents. An evacuation effort from Mariupol—a port city of a half-million people on the southeastern coast—was twice halted over the weekend as Russian forces kept up shelling. Residents there have no heat through freezing nights, and food supplies are running low. An attempt to bring supplies into Mariupol today failed. Russia had announced a temporary pause in fighting in some combat zones to allow civilians to flee, but its continued shelling around evacuation paths made the cease-fires all but meaningless. Ukraine dismissed a Russian proposal to evacuate hundreds of thousands of people from cities because it would involve taking civilians to Russia and Belarus, rather than to the West. The French president, Emmanuel Macron, accused Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia, of “moral and political cynicism” for offering safety to civilians under fire from Putin’s own forces. In less than a week, the U.S. and NATO have provided Ukraine with more than 17,000 anti-tank weapons including Javelin missiles, unloading them from military cargo planes in neighboring countries so they can be transported by land to Kyiv and other major cities. U.S. officials say Ukrainian leaders have told them that the supplied weaponry is making a difference on the battlefield. But some U.S. national security officials are concerned that a more direct conflict with Russia is increasingly likely. The Baltic states are demanding assurances from the U.S. that they will not become Russia’s next battleground.

Ukraine says Russia steps up shelling of residential areas (AP) Russian forces intensified shelling of cities in Ukraine’s center, north and south, a Ukrainian official said, upending attempts to evacuate besieged civilians. With the Ukrainian leader urging his people to fight in the streets, Russian President Vladimir Putin shifted blame for the invasion, saying Moscow’s attacks could be halted “only if Kyiv ceases hostilities.” The outskirts of Kyiv, Chernihiv in the north, Mykolaiv in the south, and Kharkiv, the country’s second-largest city, faced stepped-up shelling late Sunday, presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovich said. “This is likely to represent an effort to break Ukrainian morale,” the U.K. Ministry of Defense said of Russian tactics as the war entered its 12th day Monday. Fighting has caused 1.5 million people to flee the country, which the head of the U.N. refugee agency called “the fastest-growing refugee crisis in Europe since World War II.” The most recent attacks dashed hopes that more people could escape the fighting in Ukraine, where Russia’s plan to quickly overrun the country has been stymied by fierce resistance.

Arming Ukraine: 17,000 Anti-Tank Weapons in 6 Days and a Clandestine Cybercorps (NYT) On a snowy tarmac at Amari Air Base in northern Estonia on Sunday morning, pallets of rifles, ammunition and other weapons were being loaded onto one of the largest cargo planes in the world, an Antonov AN-124, belonging to the Ukrainian air force. It is an artifact of the Cold War, built and purchased when Ukraine was still part of the Soviet Union. Now it is being turned back against the Russian invasion of Ukraine, part of a vast airlift that American and European officials describe as a desperate race against time, to get tons of arms into the hands of Ukrainian forces while their supply routes are still open. Scenes like this, reminiscent of the Berlin airlift—the famed race by the Western allies to keep West Berlin supplied with essentials in 1948 and 1949 as the Soviet Union sought to choke it off—are playing out across Europe. In less than a week, the United States and NATO have pushed more than 17,000 antitank weapons, including Javelin missiles, over the borders of Poland and Romania, unloading them from giant military cargo planes so they can make the trip by land to Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, and other major cities. So far, Russian forces have been so preoccupied in other parts of the country that they have not targeted the arms supply lines, but few think that can last. But those are only the most visible contributions. Hidden away on bases around Eastern Europe, forces from United States Cyber Command known as “cybermission teams” are in place to interfere with Russia’s digital attacks and communications. In Washington and Germany, intelligence officials race to merge satellite photographs with electronic intercepts of Russian military units, strip them of hints of how they were gathered, and beam them to Ukrainian military units within an hour or two.

U.S. and allies quietly prepare for a Ukrainian government-in-exile and a long insurgency (Washington Post) The Ukrainian military has mounted an unexpectedly fierce defense against invading Russian forces, which have been dogged by logistical problems and flagging morale. But the war is barely two weeks old, and in Washington and European capitals, officials anticipate that the Russian military will reverse its early losses, setting the stage for a long, bloody insurgency. Ukraine’s allies are planning how to help establish and support a government-in-exile, which could direct guerrilla operations against Russian occupiers, according to several U.S. and European officials. The weapons the United States has provided to Ukraine’s military would be crucial to the success of an insurgent movement, officials said. The Biden administration has asked Congress, infused with a rare bipartisan spirit in defense of Ukraine, to take up a $10 billion humanitarian aid and military package that includes funding to replenish the stocks of weapons that have already been sent.

Ukrainian Families Feel the Pain of Separation (NYT) Iryna Dukhota has been married to her husband for 26 years. She met him when they were young, as he was riding his bike through her neighborhood in Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital. But a few days ago, on a gray, windswept morning, with thousands of people rushing around them, the couple stood at the Ukraine-Poland border, lips quivering. After all these years, it was time to say goodbye. “I told him ‘I love you’ and ‘We will see each other soon,’” Ms. Dukhota said, her eyes pooling. Now, she says, she does not know when or even if she will ever see him again. As the Russian Army bears down on Ukraine from the north, south and east, a mass migration of millions of civilians is gathering like a storm over the plains. But the international border gates are a painful filter, splitting families apart. The Ukrainian government has mandated that men aged 18 to 60 are not allowed to leave the country, so the crowds pouring into Poland, Hungary and other neighboring nations are eerily devoid of men. It is almost exclusively women and young children who pass through the checkpoints after heartbreaking goodbyes. The Ukrainian men, whether they want to or not, turn back to fight. Some Ukrainian women referred to the separations as “a little death.”

Hate for Putin's Russia Consumes Ukraine (NYT) If there is one overriding emotion gripping Ukraine right now, it is hate. It is a deep, seething bitterness for President Vladimir Putin, his military and his government. But Ukrainians are not giving a pass to ordinary Russians, either, calling them complicit through years of political passivity. The hatred is vented by mothers in bomb shelters, by volunteers preparing to fight on the front lines, by intellectuals and by artists. The emotion is so powerful it could not be assuaged even by an Orthodox religious holiday on Sunday intended to foster forgiveness before Lent. Called Forgiveness Sunday, the holiday is recognized in both the Russian and Ukrainian Orthodox churches. And this hatred has overwhelmed the close personal ties between two Slavic nations, where many people have family living in both countries. Billboards have gone up along roadsides in gigantic block letters, telling Russians in profanity-laced language to get out. Social media posts in spaces often shared by Russians and Ukrainians have been awash in furious comments. Some Ukrainians have posted pictures of people killed in the military assault in Russian chat rooms on the Telegram app. They have vented by writing on the reviews pages for websites of Moscow restaurants. They blame millions of Russians, who Ukrainians say gave up on the post-Soviet dreams of freedom and openness to the West, for enabling the war.

Jehovah’s Witnesses flee Russia for worship without fear (AP) Over the past five years, hundreds of Jehovah’s Witnesses have been subjected to raids, arrests and prosecution in Russia. Many others have fled—including one couple, Dmitrii and Nellia Antsybor, who flew to Mexico last year, walked across the U.S. border to seek asylum, and now hope to build a new life for themselves in Washington state. About 5,000 Witnesses in Ukraine have left, seeking protection in other countries, said Jarrod Lopes, a U.S.-based spokesperson for the Jehovah’s Witnesses. For Witnesses in Russia—Lopes estimates there are about 170,000 of them—there’s been anxiety since the country’s Supreme Court declared the Christian denomination an extremist group in 2017. Hundreds have been arrested and imprisoned. Their homes and places of worship, known as Kingdom Halls, have been raided, and the national headquarters seized. The Witnesses’ modern, Russian-language translation of the Bible has been banned along with its globally circulated magazines.

Pope Francis says ‘rivers of blood’ flowing in Ukraine war (Reuters) Pope Francis on Sunday rejected Russia’s use of the term “special military operation” for its invasion of Ukraine, saying the country was being battered by war and urging an immediate end to the fighting. “In Ukraine, rivers of blood and tears are flowing. This is not just a military operation but a war which sows death, destruction and misery,” the pope said in his weekly address to crowds gathered in St. Peter’s Square. The comments were the strongest the pope had yet made about the violence although, as has been the case throughout the conflict, he did not condemn Russia by name. Instead, he repeated his appeal for peace, the creation of humanitarian corridors and a return to negotiations. “In that martyred country the need for humanitarian assistance is growing by the hour,” the pope said, speaking from a window overlooking the square. “War is madness, please stop.”

South Korean campaign gets ugly (AP) The race between South Korea’s two leading presidential candidates has seen unprecedented levels of toxic rhetoric, mudslinging and lawsuits. How bad is it? “Hitler,” “beast,” and “parasite” are some of the choicer insults leveled by both camps. Some are even calling it “The Squid Game Election,” in reference to Netflix’s megahit survival drama where people are killed if they lose children’s games. And the stakes? There’s widespread speculation that the loser will be arrested. “It’s a dreadful presidential election when the losing contender faces prison. Please survive this dogfight in the mire!” senior opposition politician Hong Joon-pyo wrote on Facebook.

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What are four music albums that mean a lot to you, and why? (please use pics for the aesthetic :'D)

Turns out it’s near impossible to limit this to four albums, but I tried! Hopefully these choices are somewhat interesting.

The Resistance (2009) | Muse

The Resistance, perhaps surrpisingly, isn’t my favorite album of Muse’s - that would probably be Absolution (2003) or Black Holes and Revelations (2006). But it is the album that got me into them in the first place, and so it’s the one to deserve a spot on this list most. Muse is, and will probably always be, my favorite band, the perfect mix of stunning vocals, brilliant songwriting and fabulous theatricality. It’s Freddie Mercury and Chopin and Massive Attack all in one erratic discography (seven studio albums and counting!), and even when the genre doesn’t work for me I still love it, because some loves are unconditional and my relationship with Muse is one of those. I love their weirdness, their lyrics about alien invasions, futuristic westerns and dystopian societies, just as much as I love their killer guitar solos, and I especially love that they get to exist in the same songs. For a moment I considered picking a live album of theirs for this list, mostly because as good as their studio recordings are, nothing compares to the real thing. Going to their concert was probably one of the best nights of my life and the measure against which I hold all live shows I go to now, because Matt Bellamy is simply that good. But in the end, The Resistance won out because that’s where it all started for me, nearly 10 years ago, and I’m still here. This also happens to be one of my favorite album covers, truly gorgeous artwork.

Favorites: Uprising, Resistance, Exogenesis: Symphony Part 2 (Cross-Pollination), MK Ultra

Made in the A.M. (2015) | One Direction

I could get wildly pretentious here and pick albums that are critically acclaimed and that I undoubtedly love, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they hold any meaning to me personally. So, to be true to form, I’m going with the album that dominates my Ipod’s Most Played. Unlike The Resistance, Made in the A.M. is not the album that got me into One Direction (that was Midnight Memories (2013), but, well, that album just isn’t very good). It is, however, the album that feels the most them to me. We can debate the authenticity of Simon Cowell driven boybands until the end of time, but when the four of them ask, in the last bonus track, to pretend for just one more night that they’re ‘all gonna make it’, it feels like a more honest admission than anything on the other four albums before. This album reminds of late nights behind my computer, listening to grainy recordings of these songs with girls crying in the background. The title Made in the A.M. refers as much to the creation of the album as it does to my reception of it.This album is the last they released, a year after Zayn left, and it’s drenched in a nostalgia that can only come from six years of growing up together in the public eye, six years of friendship and fights, with the result being a sort of resigned maturity. The wary ‘who’s gonna be the first to say goodbye?’ from Four (2014) has shifted into ‘the fact that we can sit right here and say goodbye / means we’ve already won’, and yet even A.M. is filled with doubts. ‘Thought we were going strong / thought we were holding on / aren’t we?’. Less love songs (though those are still there, they are a boyband after all), more reflections of a couple of twenty-somethings who have seen all sides of fame, have had friendships and relationships fall apart across world tours and albums at a breakneck pace. And yet, A.M. feels like going out on a high. ‘We had some good times, didn’t we?’. Perhaps that’s all that matters in the end.

Favorites: What A Feeling, Walking in the Wind, A.M., Olivia,

Genius: The Best of Warren Zevon (2002) | Warren Zevon

Going back in time a little for my third pick. This is an album I’ll forever associate with my parents. When I was a kid me and my parents would go on holiday every year during the summer, to England, Italy… which would include long car rides, sometimes of several days. To fill the time, each of us got to bring five albums that we would then play in rotation. I made my parents suffer through Fall Out Boy, Green Day and Paramore (sorry mom and dad), they introduced me to The Eagles, Tom Waits, and Warren Zevon (never Dylan, cause my mom hates Dylan). Zevon was probably my favorite of my parents’ music, the perfect soundtrack to watching the surroundings race by through the window of a car. I don’t even have this album on my Ipod, I couldn’t tell you anything about Warren Zevon if you asked. I can’t do an analysis of his songs like I can for Muse or One Direction. But once in a while his songs will play on the radio, and I’ll flash back to those summer car rides, my parents complaining about Patrick Stump’s yelling, and me softly singing along to Werewolves of London in the backseat.

Favorites: Reconsider Me, Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner, Werewolves of London

Waking Hour (2001) | Vienna Teng

Rounding off the list was tough. I considered a couple of artists I used to love, some angsty teen band such as Linkin Park or Panic! at the Disco, the soundtrack to my adolescence. As much as I love those albums, and even still love some of the bands, it didn’t feel quite right. I ended up settling for Waking Hour because it’s the album that calms me most when I’m feeling upset, like a comfortable blanket. Oddly enough, if you asked, I probably wouldn’t name Vienna Teng as one of my favorite artists, even though I have nearly all of her music on my Ipod. I don’t know anything about her or her career (I googled her for this list, it turns out she stopped making music in 2013 and is now doing activist work), but in this case I think it allows me to approach the songs without context, and they feel more personal and intimate because of it.Waking Hour is her first album, and it’s easily my favorite of hers. I love the vulnerability in it, the smoothness of Vienna’s angelic voice, the soft instruments which never overpower the vocals. Music can often soothe me, but this album especially. I love the desperation in ‘I need not to need / I’ve always been the tower / but now I feel like I’m the flower trying to bloom in snow’, the comfort of ‘now I am grown / and these days have shown / rain’s a part of how life goes / but it’s dark and it’s late / so I’ll hold you and wait / ‘til your frightened eyes do close’, and the eventual life-reaffirming ‘so we just hold on fast / acknowledge the past / as lessons exquisitely crafted / painstakingly drafted / to carve us as instruments / that play the music of life’. They’re only a couple of examples of the beautiful storytelling Vienna Teng is capable of, and it’s the kind of music that should be enjoyed in silence, with eyes closed to shut out the world.

Favorites: The Tower, Lullaby for a Stormy Night, Eric’s Song

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Ten Song Tag Game

I was tagged by @coffeewithconsequences !

Rules: list ten songs you’re currently obsessed with and tag ten others.

So, here is the thing. I can only obsess about one song at a time, and I play it on a loop for days and days. As I tell people, I cannot like anything a normal amount. Thus, I have currated a list with commentary because that is just how I roll.

1) A Better Son/Daughter by Rilo Kely

But you'll fight and you'll make it through

You’ll fake it if you have to

And you'll show up for work with a smile

And you'll be better and you'll be smarter

And more grown up and a better daughter

Or son, and a real good friend

This song is about Kent Parson’s rookie year in my series Sowing Season. Kent Parson is my Patronus, so this song is also about me.

Past obsessive songs (I’m excluding Bright Eyes, Fall Out Boy, and The Decemberists cause I cannot choose between any of their songs):

2) I am Trying to Break Your Heart by Wilco -- the layers in this song are amazing, as is the wordplay. “I am an American aquarium drinker, I assassin down the avenue.” Like, is there a better way to describe the post-breakup, drink-your-hurt-away sads than that? There is not.

3) Call Your Girlfriend by Robyn -- I watched Season 3 of the original Skam and nothing has ever been ok since. Plus, the video for this song is amazing.

4) Debaser by The Pixies (video has some graphic surgical like content)-- Don’t you love it when iconic alt-rock bands make a song that heavily incorporates a surrealist film co-created by Luis Buñel and Salvidor Dali? I do.

5) Anthems for a Seventeen-Year-Old Girl by Broken Social Scene -- Michael Chabon’s ending paragraph in Mysteries of Pittsburgh, a book I reread almost yearly, is about what he calls “ruinous nostalgia.” So is this song, which will make you want to lay on the floor in the summer heat next to an oscillating fan that’s cooling your body in bursts.

6) Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It) by Beyonce -- I’m not linking to this cause come on. When this dropped I was freshly single. My friends staged an intervention about how often I played this.

7) Run Dry (X fingers X hands) by Patrick Stump -- to me, this is a song where you see PStump’s unique approach to songs but still see a bit of the influence that the cleverness of Pete Wentz’s language had on him. Maybe? I think so.

8) The Skin of My Yellow Country Teeth by Clap Your Hands Say Yeah -- Look, my family came from Appalachia, and I now live in New York City, and there are two lines that are exactly me: “You look a bit like coffee, and you taste a bit like me” and “But let me tell you I never planned / To let go of the hand that has been / Clinging by its thick country skin.” This song is as autobiographic as anything from a mostly forgotten mid-2000′s band can be.

9) Boy Problems AND Cut to the Feeling by Carly Rae Jepsen -- Queen Carly Rae writes the best pop music that’s out today. Thank you, LGBT community for recognizing her brilliance.

10) Nights by Frank Ocean -- I mean, really the entirety of Blond/e. In the intro to Richard Siken’s Crush, it says that it’s a collection of poems about panic. For me, Blond/e is kind of a different side of that, the self-destructiveness of the queer experience tempered by beauty and moments of true clarity. Also, the mid-song shift into the second half of the album is amazing, and he mentions “only going to Shoney’s on occasion” and Shoney’s was my family’s jam in my childhood.

Gosh, that was fun.

Tagging @yoursummerfrost, @zombizombi , @muchandquick , @benjji2795 , @bazanite . Maybe you all will be better at not going off on questionable music analysis and autobiographic rants, but I would love it if you did.

#tag game #music #song recs #long post #well it's more a long-ish post #also my crush on carly rae jepsen is consuming

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Discourse of Saturday, 17 April 2021

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TWO HUNDRED FIFTY THINGS AN ARCHITECT SHOULD KNOW

by Michael Sorkin

1 The feel of cool marble under bare feet. 2 How to live in a small room with five strangers for six months. 3 With the same strangers in a lifeboat for one week. 4 The modulus of rupture. 5 The distance a shout carries in the city. 6 The distance of a whisper. 7 Everything possible about Hatshepsut’s temple (try not to see it as “modernist” avant la lettre). 8 The number of people with rent subsidies in New York City. 9 In your town (include the rich). 10 The flowering season for azaleas.

11 The insulating properties of glass. 12 The history of its production and use. 13 And of its meaning. 14 How to lay bricks. 15 What Victor Hugo really meant by ‘this will kill that.’ 16 The rate at which the seas are rising. 17 Building information modeling (BIM). 18 How to unclog a Rapidograph. 19 The Gini coefficient. 20 A comfortable tread-to-riser ratio for a six-year-old. 21 In a wheelchair. 22 The energy embodied in aluminum. 23 How to turn a corner. 24 How to design a corner. 25 How to sit in a corner. 26 How Antoni Gaudí modeled the Sagrada Família and calculated its structure. 27 The proportioning system for the Villa Rotonda. 28 The rate at which that carpet you specified off-gasses. 29 The relevant sections of the Code of Hammurabi. 30 The migratory patterns of warblers and other seasonal travelers. 31 The basics of mud construction. 32 The direction of prevailing winds. 33 Hydrology is destiny. 34 Jane Jacobs in and out. 35 Something about feng shui. 36 Something about Vastu Shilpa. 37 Elementary ergonomics. 38 The color wheel. 39 What the client wants. 40 What the client thinks it wants. 41 What the client needs. 42 What the client can afford. 43 What the planet can afford. 44 The theoretical bases for modernity and a great deal about its factions and inflections. 45 What post-Fordism means for the mode of production of building. 46 Another language. 47 What the brick really wants. 48 The difference between Winchester Cathedral and a bicycle shed. 49 What went wrong in Fatehpur Sikri. 50 What went wrong in Pruitt-Igoe.

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The logjam you don’t even know you’re stuck in will be broken by a shift in representation. 126 The exquisite corpse. 127 Scissors, stone, paper. 128 Good Bordeaux. 129 Good beer. 130 How to escape a maze. 131 QWERTY. 132 Fear. 133 Finding your way around Prague, Fez, Shanghai, Johannesburg, Kyoto, Rio, Mexico, Solo, Benares, Bangkok, Leningrad, Isfahan. 134 The proper way to behave with interns. 135 Maya, Revit, Catia, whatever. 136 The history of big machines, including those that can fly. 137 How to calculate ecological footprints. 138 Three good lunch spots within walking distance. 139 The value of human life. 140 Who pays. 141 Who profits. 142 The Venturi effect. 143 How people pee. 144 What to refuse to do, even for the money. 145 The fine print in the contract. 146 A smattering of naval architecture. 147 The idea of too far. 148 The idea of too close. 149 Burial practices in a wide range of cultures. 150 The density needed to support a pharmacy. 151 The density needed to support a subway. 152 The effect of the design of your city on food miles for fresh produce. 153 Lewis Mumford and Patrick Geddes. 154 Capability Brown, André Le Nôtre, Frederick Law Olmsted, Muso Soseki, Ji Cheng, and Roberto Burle Marx. 155 Constructivism, in and out. 156 Sinan. 157 Squatter settlements via visits and conversations with residents. 158 The history and techniques of architectural representation across cultures. 159 Several other artistic media. 160 A bit of chemistry and physics. 161 Geodesics. 162 Geodetics. 163 Geomorphology. 164 Geography. 165 The Law of the Andes. 166 Cappadocia first-hand. 167 The importance of the Amazon. 168 How to patch leaks. 169 What makes you happy. 170 The components of a comfortable environment for sleep. 171 The view from the Acropolis. 172 The way to Santa Fe. 173 The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. 174 Where to eat in Brooklyn. 175 Half as much as a London cabbie. 176 The Nolli Plan. 177 The Cerdà Plan. 178 The Haussmann Plan. 179 Slope analysis. 180 Darkroom procedures and Photoshop. 181 Dawn breaking after a bender. 182 Styles of genealogy and taxonomy. 183 Betty Friedan. 184 Guy Debord. 185 Ant Farm. 186 Archigram. 187 Club Med. 188 Crepuscule in Dharamshala. 189 Solid geometry. 190 Strengths of materials (if only intuitively). 191 Ha Long Bay. 192 What’s been accomplished in Medellín. 193 In Rio. 194 In Calcutta. 195 In Curitiba. 196 In Mumbai. 197 Who practices? 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The Blame Game: Trump, Video Game Violence, And Following The Evidence

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The Blame Game: Trump, Video Game Violence, And Following The Evidence

Following a pair of back-to-back mass shootings, some American politicians and pundits have once again turned their ire towards video games. The most high-profile of these was President Donald Trump, suggesting that video games contribute to a culture of violence that causes people to feel flippant with the sanctity of human life. However, he was far from the only or even the first politician to cast blame. But where does this reaction come from, and does the scientific evidence support it?

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Though the pair of tragic shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio on August 3 and 4 have revived the topic of video game violence, politicians expressing concern over the effect of violent video games on young people is anything but a new phenomenon.

Prompted by games like Mortal Kombat, Night Trap, and Lethal Enforcers, Congress held hearings on video game violence in 1993-1994. Led by Senators Joe Lieberman and Herb Kohl, the planned hearings were given extra furor thanks to Bureau of Justice statistics that showed gun-related violence had reached record highs in 1993. Politicians pointed the finger at violent media, especially video games.

“I’d like to ban all the violent video games,” Lieberman said at the time. “It’s hard to control every measure of this, especially in a society that values free speech and First Amendment rights.”

During the hearings, Lieberman argued that the average video game player was 7-12 years old, and so violent games were being marketed to children. Recognizing that an outright ban was impractical, however, Lieberman threw his support behind warning labels for violent video games. Congressional pressure had made clear that the government would take action to regulate the industry if it did not regulate itself. The result was the industry banding together to form and abide by ratings given by the Entertainment Software Ratings Board (ESRB).

The next significant political challenge to video games came from a California law that eventually made its way up to the Supreme Court of the United States. Brown v Entertainment Merchant’s Association was a suit concerning a 2005 law restricting violent video game sales to minors without parental supervision. The law, drafted by former California State Sen. Leeland Yee and signed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, demanded labeling beyond the standard ESRB labels and would fine retailers for selling violent games to minors. It defined violence under an obscenity statute that had previously only been used to restrict the sale of sexually explicit material. The EMA argued that the law unfairly treated video games as fundamentally different from other media, the sale of which is not restricted to minors.

In a rare 7-2 ruling, the famously conservative Justice Antonin Scalia wrote in the Court’s opinion that video games are subject to the free speech protections afforded by the First Amendment. He was joined by Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Anthony Kennedy, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan, with Justice Samuel Alito concurring. Only Justices Stephen Breyer and Clarence Thomas dissented. Significantly, Scalia’s written opinion explicitly rejected California’s argument that a causal link existed between media violence and real-world aggression.

“The State’s evidence is not compelling,” Scalia wrote. “California relies primarily on the research of Dr. Craig Anderson and a few other research psychologists whose studies purport to show a connection between exposure to violent video games and harmful effects on children. These studies have been rejected by every court to consider them, and with good reason. They do not prove that violent video games cause minors to act aggressively … They show at best some correlation between exposure to violent entertainment and some minuscule real-world effects.”

Despite this standing opinion from the highest court, politicians still regularly point fingers at video games, especially in response to acts of real-world violence. This latest example isn’t even the first time we’ve seen it from President Trump. Following the mass shooting in 2018 at a high school in Parkland, Florida, the president convened a roundtable with industry groups and critics on the same subject. It similarly used depictions of video game violence to suggest a causal link between exposure to violent games and real-world violence.

So why does this keep happening?

The Renewed Furor

The shootings in El Paso and Dayton took place over the course of less than 24 hours. Though mass shootings have become almost routine in American life, two mass casualty events occurring in such quick succession appeared to shake Americans to their core. Heartbroken citizens looked to leaders for guidance and action.

Almost in unison, conservative leaders rallied against video games as a culprit. Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and Republican House minority leader Kevin McCarthy both appeared on Fox News Channel on the morning of August 4, calling for action against video games and suggesting a causal link between violent games and violent actions. President Trump’s prepared remarks on Monday morning gained the most attention, but he was largely following a narrative already set by other conservative leaders.

“We must stop the glorification of violence in our society,” Trump said. “This includes the gruesome and grisly video games that are now commonplace. It is too easy today for troubled youth to surround themselves with a culture that celebrates violence. We must stop or substantially reduce this, and it has to begin immediately.”

Critics of the president have suggested the tendency to blame video games is something of a stalling tactic, to shift the focus away from discussions of gun control that often take place following mass shootings. And to be sure, this would have strategic merit. American interest in gun control legislation waxes and wanes with current events, so muddying the waters and waiting it out could work, if one’s goal was to simply maintain the status quo.

Whatever political maneuvering might be at play, some segment of the broader population does genuinely believe video game violence contributes to real-world violence. Their strong concerns may be based in good faith, but the evidence is inconclusive at best.

What The Evidence Actually Shows

One of the most common arguments against a link between video game violence and real-world is anecdotal and intuitive. It has been stated many times and in many ways: video games are enjoyed the world over, and countries with similar or much higher video game adoption rates have significantly lower levels of gun violence.

The ESA stated this in its initial response to President Trump’s remarks, saying, “Other societies, where video games are played as avidly, do not contend with the tragic levels of violence that occur in the US.”

Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick echoed this sentiment days later, calling Trump’s comments disrespectful to the victims and their families. “The fact is entertainment is consumed world-wide,” he said, “but gun violence is uniquely American. So we need to address the real issues.”

This sentiment isn’t new. The Daily Show host Trevor Noah lampooned the Trump administration along the same lines in a 2018 segment following the roundtable after the Parkland shooting. In the segment, Noah argued that stricter gun regulations are “most effective and realistic way to limit gun violence,” citing lower homicide rates in countries like Japan–despite their fondness for video games.

A more authoritative refutation can be found in a policy statement issued by the American Psychological Association in 2017. It argues, “Scant evidence has emerged that makes any causal or correlational connection between playing violent video games and actually committing violent activities.” The policy statement goes on to point out that a 2002 analysis from the United States Secret Service “suggested that school shooters tended to consume relatively low amounts of violent media compared to normative levels for same-age peers.” It’s careful to note that this finding does not conclude that increased consumption of violent media would result in less real-world violence, just that a link cannot be established.

The paper concludes that public officials and the media should refrain from suggesting a causal link between media violence and real-world acts of violence. At most, it says, media figures should refer to studies that may link video games to “aggression.” It argues this because, as Justice Scalia noted in his 2011 ruling, the studies linking media violence to actual aggression are disputed, and usually extend to minor acts of aggression such as “the administration of unwanted hot sauce to make food too spicy, making someone put his or her hand in freezing ice water or bursts of white noise in laboratory experiments.” The APA suggests that these findings are not conclusive and the methodology “remains a matter of reasonable debate.”

On the other hand, a 2016 statement by the American Academy of Pediatrics is more sharply critical of media violence. First, it draws a distinction between aggression and violence, to help parse terms.

“For example, a snarling dog is behaving aggressively; once it bites, it has resorted to violence,” the statement says. “A person who verbally abuses another would not be committing an act of violence by this definition. Thus, all violent acts are aggressive, but not all aggressive acts are violent.”

It argues for a “broad scientific consensus that virtual violence increases aggressive thoughts, feelings, and behaviors,” and dismisses the landmark Supreme Court ruling as based upon First Amendment grounds rather than scientific merit. It does concede, however, that laboratory aggression as a proxy for real-world aggression has proven to be a research challenge. Though increased aggression in a laboratory setting has been consistently shown and studied, this does not necessarily result in real-world violence. Finally, it states that an experimental, real-world study linking virtual violence with real-world violence has never been conducted, because the rarity of violence precludes a large enough sample size to be accurately studied. On the whole, though, the AAP appears to suspect some link may exist, and recommends more stringent enforcement mechanisms.

Conclusion

While scholars may disagree regarding the weight and emphasis of conclusions offered by laboratory studies, even the sharpest scientific critics of video game violence draw a cautious distinction between findings of heightened aggression and the soundbite-ready conclusion that video games are a primary cause in these ongoing national tragedies. Regardless, politicians have been looking to the medium for more than 20 years, and they likely will again the next time a tragedy hits close to home.

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