Urban and City is a French-language newsletter featuring architecture and design projects, such as a 3D-printed ceramic shopfront, a Japanese-pop hotel interior in Osaka, and an ecological community building near Toulouse. Each issue offers short editorial presentations of projects with notes on materials, construction choices and design intent.
Website: https://www.urbanandcity.com/
Long-form essays that read Italian buildings, monuments and gardens slowly, tracing how layers of history, restoration and invention shaped what visitors see today. Mixes archival detail, on-site observation and personal travel narrative, with practical visiting guidance.
Each issue pairs a historic postcard with a present-day recreation photo to explore a building, monument or artwork and the history behind it. It covers modernist architecture, public monuments and urban history with detailed context on architects, patrons and artists.
A reflective travel journal that uses walks through English and Japanese places to explore memory, impermanence, freedom and beauty through a Platonist and continental philosophical lens. Readers get essayistic meditations that pair concrete landscapes such as castles, abbeys and island architecture with thinkers like Fromm and classical Japanese poetry.
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