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A Path to Prosperity - The Butterfly Effect
How an academic curiosity led me on a Caribbean adventure
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Andries Kerpestein
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Architecture and Evolution: VIII. The Value of Beauty and How To Profit From It
In this article, the last of this series, I delve into the economic value of traditional architecture and how to monetise it.
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Andries Kerpestein
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Architecture and Evolution: VII. The Inevitable Failure of Modernism
Many have been writing about the failures of modern architecture ever since its inception in the early twentieth century amongst communist…
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Architecture and Evolution: VI. Universal Principles for Good Architecture
As has been shown in the first three articles of this series, the evolution of our species has left us with innate aesthetic preferences. Summing things…
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Architecture and Evolution: V. An Evolutionary Theory of Architecture
In biology, evolution refers to the gradual change of species over time. The theory of natural selection, which was conceived independently by Charles…
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Architecture and Evolution: IV. The Position of the Viewer
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. That is not to say, as is what this saying is mostly used for, that our aesthetic preferences differ wildly and…
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Architecture and Evolution: III. The Universality of Ornament
Like symmetry, ornament has been a principal feature of architecture throughout history, until modernism rose to significance. Ornament can be found in…
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