Architecture
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How the buildings you occupy might be affecting your brain
Cutting-edge research in the field of neuroarchitecture is revealing the public health implications of building design
by Cleo Valentine & Heather Mitcheltree
Psychoanalysis and the unconscious
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For Jung, architecture was a tool to represent the psyche
Carl Jung’s approach to architecture is a provocation: how are we creating spaces for the forgotten dimensions of our minds?
by David Borkenhagen
Architecture
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Rough, cold and politically charged: why do we love to hate concrete?
Concrete helped rebuild 20th-century cities and societies, both totalitarian and democratic. Why do we love to hate it?
by Vyta Baselice
Stories and literature
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Why are there so few children’s books set in the suburbs?
Children’s literature thrives on beautiful, imaginative or surprising encounters – so no wonder it shuns the suburbs
by Philip Reed
Architecture
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The sink in the hall: how pandemics transform architecture
From the sink in the hall to the UV light in the bus depot: how pandemics past and present can transform architecture
by Theodora Philcox
Painting and sculpture
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Works of urban graffiti are not vandalism, but public monuments
They might appear to have little in common with statues or obelisks, but graffiti images serve a vital public function
by Rafael Schacter