https://tomcritchlow.com/2015/08/24/architecture/

Websites as architecture

The publishing project that accompanies the activities of the Future Architecture platform, a multi volume field guide to the future of architecture.

source: Archifutures – A Future Architecture Platform project

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RNDRD is a partial index of architectural drawings and models scanned from design publications throughout the 20th century. We do not publish photographs of completed work, only renderings: drawings, collage, models and graphics of all sorts. Our source materials are (mostly) out-of-print academic and trade journals. We cull the most striking, typical and atypical images from thousands of pages of print that will not be available online. As the internet increasingly becomes the main source for designers to draw on precedence, RNDRD hopes to provide a broader sample of the history of architectural image making.

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Once cities were designed to accommodate the masses; today the masses have to be seduced. During the past forty years, like all sectors of the economy, urban planning has become free enterprise: a perpetually speculative activity, which must give shape to developments even if it remains uncertain whether those developments will ever happen, or attract the people for whom they were planned.

This presentation explores the flipside: large urban plans that were built but never used. These now occur on every continent – the inevitable fallout of a world urbanizing at a staggering pace. But perhaps they are more… perhaps these towns also constitute compelling reasons for reflection in the face of a seemingly unbreakable consensus that the city is our one and only common future.

source: Reinier de Graaf, “Phantom Urbanism” - Harvard Graduate School of Design

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Google streetview examples of architecture styles

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Ways of knowing cities

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https://www.amazon.com/Citizens-No-Place-Architectural-Graphic/dp/1616890622