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Architecture and Urban Planning YouTubers worth a 'Like and Subscribe'

2021-12-01T14:31:00-05:00

A new crop of content creators is at the forefront of envisioning and producing some of today's most commonly consumed forms of media. Individuals on various internet platforms, namely YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram, tell their stories covering a limitless range of topics.

While not nearly generating the same astronomical viewership as some of the medium's top stars, there is a large community of creators whose work centers on the built environment, covering architecture, design, urban planning, and construction subjects. Through a diverse array of perspectives and ways of communicating information, their content serves as a resource for students, professionals, and enthusiasts alike while making these subjects more accessible to wider audiences.

For this particular showcase, we focus on YouTube and its most exciting creators within this niche. While there are plenty of noteworthy genre-specific channels on this platform, here is our pick of fun, informative, and engaging channels...

How Art and Design Museums Switched to Working From Home and Sharpened Their Digital Experience

2020-03-28T08:00:00-04:00

While the worsening pandemic and sweeping social-distancing measures have brought normal daily life to a grinding halt around the globe, cultural institutions, typically the civic pride of cities and entire regions, were also forced to abandon their prime mission and temporarily close most, if not all, brick-and-mortar manifestations.

With physical exhibitions now inaccessible and museum staff ordered to work from home, we wondered: How has the switch to remote work been going so far for institutions that rely so heavily on personal interaction with visitors? Have online programs, or even virtual exhibitions, been in place before the crisis hit? Can the self-quarantining public access and enjoy collections via the web, potentially offering a vastly expanded, global audience to most museums?

#ArchinectMeets @decorhardcore

2018-12-21T10:58:00-05:00

#ArchinectMeets is a series of interviews with members of the architecture community that use Instagram as a creative medium. With the series, we ask some of Instagram’s architectural photographers, producers and curators about their relationship to the social media platform and how it has affected their practice.

Social media has undeniably affected the way we perceive, interpret and share opinions about architecture today. While we use our own account, @Archinect, as a site for image curation and news content, we wanted to ask fellow Instagram users how they navigated the platform.

We spoke to Ksenia Shestakovskaia about their Instagram, @decorhardcore. Decoration may be a field associated with elegance and restraint, but the world exposed by @decorhardcore is one of extravagance and indulgence. It is a world that can yield either restraint or transgression, but at its most extreme, in the words of of Shestakovskaia, "Hardcore is not for everybody."

Screen/Print #68: Phillip Denny Contemplates the Information Overload of Instagram

2018-12-06T15:31:00-05:00

The newest issue of PLAT Journal, "7.0: Sharing," concerns the nature of contemporary sharing that proceeds today with fervor, given the prevalence of social media and screen technologies.

Screen/Print #46: 'Quick Images' Complicate Architectural Discourse in 'Hatch' from Penn Design

2016-10-27T12:25:00-04:00

What is architectural discourse in an era of so-called "quick images"? As a collection of conversations between students and professors, Hatch explores the culture of social media and the subsequent disconnect it has created between disciplined, professional works of architecture and flashy (if ubiquitous) presentations.