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MODERN CONCRETE FOR A MODERN WORLD

September 4, 2025 by

Modern concrete is the second most used resource behind water? It sounds impossible until you look around, until you drive around, walk around. Concrete buildings, concrete highways, concrete sidewalks. You can’t eat it, drink it, but we can’t live without it. We live in concrete, and if you’re in the wrong business, you might get […]

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MATERIAL WORLD, AND WHAT TO DO WITH IT

September 3, 2025 by

Mashing two words together to make ‘material world’ brings up a long list of ongoing problems, some more distressing than others. Scientific American shares this story from 2020:   Human-Made Stuff Now Outweighs All Life on Earth Artificial objects have gone from just 3 percent of the world’s biomass in 1900 to on par with […]

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IDENTIFYING ARCHITECTURE BY USE

April 1, 2019 by

The first question history people ask when they see some place different? “What happened?” Then they start investigating the architecture, interviewing and researching and writing what they think happened. Sometimes they get it more right than others. What’s the first question history museum people ask when they see the same thing? “What is it?” In […]

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