Could this be the political/architectural diagram we have been waiting for?

2019-03-27T13:56:00-04:00

Can the relationship between architecture and politics ever be summarized by a well-organized diagram? San Francisco based writer Julia Galef recently offered a proposal on Twitter for distinguishing the four main political groups by their architectural preferences in a familiar format in the social media universe.

It recalls the drawings made by architect Leon Krier, who often preferred images over lengthy texts as a means of communicating architectural styles against their political intentions.

Cut away confusion from your NYC commute with these beautiful subway maps

2015-11-25T13:26:00-05:00

Candy Chan, an architect living in New York City, has what she describes as a "love-hate relationship" with her subway system. Fascinated in particular by the mechanisms of the MTA's stations – their navigation and placemaking methods, their circulation patterns – Chan was surprised to learn that there are no comprehensive, 3D maps of the station interiors available to the public.

To anyone easily turned around by traveling underground, the experience of emerging from the station on the wrong side of the street is a familiar and frustrating one, and travel can be discombobulating from the get-go. 3D station maps are commonplace in Hong Kong, where Chan is from, then why not New York? So Chan set out to map the stations herself, as a labor of love.

Her ensuing "Project Subway NYC" is a blog and resource, chronicling Chan's studies of the subways and gorgeous diagrams of their interior structures. The Project began this past July, and Chan just released a new slew of station maps – pict...

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Could this be the political/architectural diagram we have been waiting for?

Cut away confusion from your NYC commute with these beautiful subway maps