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Modernism

June 27, 2026MaterialsModernism5 min read
Restraint Is the Expensive Part

House of EM built a whole house out of four materials and then had the discipline to stop. A note on Skylark, brick, and why doing less is the costly version.

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June 27, 2026Theory & CriticismModernism3 min read
Gaudí's Centenary, and the Plainer Line That Won

A hundred years after his death, the Sagrada Família finally tops out. Good moment to ask which architecture actually descended from him — and why ours didn't.

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