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Michael Bierut, Jessica Helfand|Audio

May 3, 2019

Episode 103: Cathedrals and Candidates

This week, Jessica and Michael discuss all the considerations to take in rebuilding the spire of Notre Dame, which erupted in flames on April 15.

Jessica raises the questions,

What is the history that you are trying to embody? What is the responsibility of the architect to the pursuit of romance and nobility and nostalgia?

Also mentioned this week:

  • Wikipedia on Viollet le Duc
  • Architect Magazine, Rebuilding Notre Dame It’s Complicated
  • The Times, Sharp British Ideas for Notre Dame
  • Dezeen, Notre Dame Alternative Cathedral Designs,
  • New York Times, Notre Dame Fire Investigation
  • Intelligencer, The Many Problems with Biden’s Logo According to the Haters
  • Fast Company, Joe Biden’s Logo Has a Problem I Can’t Unsee
  • Fast Company, Pete Buttigieg Debuts Radical New Approach to Campaign Branding, >Lindsay Ballant Twitter thread on Buttigieg
  • Mina Markham, Medium, Pantsuit UI Pattern Library
  • Quartz, Candidates 404 Pages ranked by cringe factor
  • LiveScience, Unidentifiable Objects Viral Photo
  • Wesley Morris, The New York Times, Rom Coms Were Corny And Retrograde, Why Do I Miss Them So Much?

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    By Michael Bierut & Jessica Helfand

    Jessica Helfand is an artist and writer based in New England. A former critic at Yale School of Art and one of the founding editors of Design Observer, she is the author of several books on visual culture including Self Reliance, Design: The Invention of Desire, and Face: A Visual Odyssey. jessicahelfand.com

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