Victor Loux — bookmarks tagged “architecture”

Innovating inaccessibility: designing novel forms of disability

medium.com/@acuity_design/remaking-inaccessibility-designing-novel-forms-of-disability-f7bca50773c5

I was at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London yesterday. They have a new entrance plaza. It looks lovely. It does however, include a new form of textured paving that is quite awesomely bad for…

donnemartin/system-design-primer: Learn how to design large scale systems. Prep for the system design interview.

github.com/donnemartin/system-design-primer

Architecture for Astronauts

architectureforastronauts.com/

The Stunning Elbphilharmonie Is What Happens When Algorithms Design a Concert Hall | WIRED

wired.com/2017/01/happens-algorithms-design-concert-hall-stunning-elbphilharmonie

Herzog and De Meuron's new philharmonic in Hamburg, Germany is an impressive feat of technology.

Rise of Worse Is Better

dreamsongs.com/RiseOfWorseIsBetter.html

simplicity / correctness / consistency / completeness in lisp and C

ArquitecturB

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Technical Architecture shapes Social Structure

lair.fifthhorseman.net/~dkg/tls-centralization/

The Bug in the Physical Building – Two Wrongs

two-wrongs.com/the-bug-in-the-physical-building

Renderings vs. Reality: The Improbable Rise of Tree-Covered Skyscrapers - 99% Invisible

99percentinvisible.org/article/renderings-vs-reality-rise-tree-covered-skyscrapers/

Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to extend

programmingisterrible.com/post/139222674273/write-code-that-is-easy-to-delete-not-easy-to

Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to extend. “ “Every line of code is written without reason, maintained out of weakness, and deleted by chance” Jean-Paul Sartre’s Programming in ANSI...

Paris-Berlin, destins croisés (1/4) | ARTE

arte.tv/guide/fr/051897-001-A/paris-berlin-destins-croises-1-4

Comment, en trois siècles d'une histoire tumultueuse, les capitales française et allemande ont grandi au miroir l'une de l'autre. Une passionnante épopée urbaine, qui combine à l'art de la synthèse un lumineux sens du détail. Ce premier épisode est l'histoire d'une fascination : celle que nourrit une petite ville sans passé envers une cité à l'histoire prestigieuse.