In 1967, Moshe Safdie reimagined the monolithic apartment block with Habitat ’67 in Montreal, where every unit had a garden…
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Alexa Meade selects a topic and then paints it. Literally. She covers everything in a scene — people, chairs, food,…
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Ge Wang makes computer music, but it isn’t all about coded bleeps and blips. With the Stanford Laptop Orchestra, he…
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