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A library of interviews with the world’s biggest thinkers.
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The major question of the 21st century “is whether human beings can summon the integrity … to resist the many ways in which computers will encroach on human dignity.”
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While the system continues to revolutionize and evolve, its unchanging failure is its inability to monetize.
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The centerfold of a Superman comic book inspired the inventor who sent the first-ever Internet message.
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Digital technology has solved the problems of visualization and building. Going forward, great architects will “deal with the exceptionality of the synthetic moment in inventive ways.”
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Engineers progress in their work by testing things so that they fail.
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Ultimately architecture is unique. Each building sits in a site in a certain moment in a very different way.
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“Green” architecture is a kind of “soup du jour” at many firms, but the push to create sustainable buildings is an important movement.
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Composite materials have had a vast impact on the way that we think about structural skins.
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The social nature of technology instigates a relationship between images and words, and allows many more people to be involved in the drawing platform.
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Design education can either embrace the world in all its complexity or concentrate on singular elements in depth.
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A conversation with the M.I.T. Architecture professor and Office dA principal.
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In his work with the government, the professor helps to suss out the underlying motives of our allies and enemies.
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As in real estate, the name of the game in our choice of spouse is “location, location, location.”
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Unless the countries of Europe figure out how to accommodate Muslim immigrant populations, there will be increasing numbers of riots, and increasing divisions along economic, religious and ethnic lines.
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The history of the French “parité movement,” and its lessons for U.S. democracy.
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What the U.S. can learn from French battles over mosque and state.
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Western attempts to ban Islamic religious garb, and Muslim attempts to censor Western religious satire may be separate issues. But neither is a good idea.
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Like Muslims, Jews were once considered “un-assimilable” in Europe. But most found creative ways to adapt—as do Muslim immigrants today.
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France’s ban on Muslim headscarves in public schools has ignited endless controversy. Which side does the “Politics of the Veil” author take?
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The “Politics of the Veil” author explains why the culture clash between “secularist” France and Muslim immigrants is rising to a fever pitch.