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Forms in Light
A black and white illustration of an American P51 Mustang airplane.

Anatomy of an Airplane

By Justin Reeve • December 19th, 2022

This might be the moment to take an architectural approach to the best warbird of them all, the P51 Mustang.

Revving the Engine
The tiny protagonist of A Tale of Paper: Refolded runs across a desk scattered with papers, which lay like carpets beneath the character's feet.

Breaking Away From the Fold

By Justin Reeve • November 23rd, 2022

A Tale of Paper: Refolded poses a number of interesting questions including the extent to which our most deeply held hopes and ambitions can impact the people around us.

Forms in Light
A photograph taken inside the courtyard of a Neoclassical building. The red and white color scheme and angle of the photo give the viewer a feeling akin to being inside of a monster's locked jaw, peering out through its teeth.

Monstrous Architecture

By Justin Reeve • November 11th, 2022

Neoclassicism never actually had any positive connotations and became increasingly sinister over time, going from somewhat dodgy to entirely despicable.

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How to Build a Racetrack

By Justin Reeve • October 13th, 2022

Adopting a broader view as to what constitutes architecture can be a worthwhile endeavor.

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A satellite image of desert ruins with several hollow ways (roads) leading to and away from them.

Wheeling and Dealing

By Justin Reeve • September 14th, 2022

Archaeology as a field isn’t just about what’s in the ground. Sometimes you have to look down from on high to really get a handle on how much of an impact a given activity is having.

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A hellish landscape populated with flowing rivers of lava and harsh towers and bridges constructed with bone-like materials.

Hell on Earth

By Justin Reeve • August 9th, 2022

The levels in DOOM Eternal provide a reminder that despite being the predominant forms of architecture for the better part of a century, internationalism and modernism are not without their problems.

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A black and white photograph of a man standing in the center of sunlit Grecian ruins.

Body and Mind

By Justin Reeve • July 6th, 2022

Similar to colleges around the world today, gymnasiums in ancient Greece were public institutions where young adults were offered various forms of training.

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The ruins of Harappa in the Indus Valley Civilization on a clear, sunny day.

Fair and Square

By Justin Reeve • June 9th, 2022

Plenty of games have been set in Egypt, Iraq and even China, but few have taken place in India. Why has the Indus Valley Civilization been so badly ignored?

An etching of Boston harbor during the Great Boston Fire of 1872.

Boston is Burning!

By Justin Reeve • May 5th, 2022

Many of the structures were too tall to reach by fire ladder and there wasn’t enough water pressure in the fire hoses to put out the flames on some of the rooftops.

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A screenshot from Okami showing its distinctive brushwork art style. In it a large red and whit fox sits under a sakura tree in bloom.

The Power of Print

By Justin Reeve • April 7th, 2022

For people in the past, writing represented a method of interacting with the world around them as opposed to a means of conveying information.

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