It's been a while since we posted a list of recently discovered blogs. Despite the lamentations of my colleagues about the demise of both the quality and quantity of blogs on the built environment, for every one that goes dimmer with each passing week without a post, there's a handful that crops up, most of which are worth keeping tabs on.
Of course, these newer blogs aren't going to be any less ephemeral. In fact, those started by thesis students and studios will most likely expire with the end of term, but at least a record of their investigations exists for anyone to use for whatever purpose. Because what if before they published the book, Venturi and Scott Brown's Las Vegas studio had maintained a blog in which students and instructors recorded all their initial observations, posted their pre-collaged photos, lecture podcasts and unedited videos using Flickr, Vimeo and YouTube, and the Web 2.0 crowd participated wiki-like, unencumbered by notions of proprietary and editorial control? It would have been interesting at the very least.
Here, meanwhile, is the list. The bloggers responsible for these blogs may or may not be as described above, but they all possess fertile minds and fecund imagination, are consummate observers, have individualized but keen insights into important issues of the day, and are voracious collectors of net flotsam and jetsam.
21st Century Plowshare
Arts and Ecology
christian barnard landscape blog
Edificial
fruitful contradictions
Geometry of Bending
Infrastructurist
Invent Civil
Mockitecture
Pop-up City
there is a lot to say, of this we are sure
Urban Floop
U.S./Mexico Border Wall as Architecture
Vulgare
The following are maintained by the incredibly fortunate three who were awarded The John K. Branner Traveling Fellowship.
Re:mote.......Controlled
Soundscrapers
Untested City
For our public blogroll, see our list of