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Author: Kurt Kohlstedt

WebUrbanist was founded in 2007 by Kurt Kohlstedt, who currently writes and edits articles and episodes at 99% Invisible and can be found on Twitter @KurtKohlstedt

Time-Lapse Tagging: Short Film Reveals Secrets of Graffiti

You see the finished pieces all over - ornate, curved and layered - but rarely get such a vivid and complete all-angle, real-time view of how their tags come together. If you are even remotely ...

Escher + Inception: Tour a Digital World that Defies Physics

This video thrives on convention - specifically: breaking with it. In the same vein as M.C. Escher, The Matrix or, more recently, Inception (or even the building flips and slides in ...

Sea Fort Retreat: Island Hotel in 1860s British Harbor Base

Known for its naval power, England has a great many leftover army and sea forts. Some have been turned into private islands, radio station or micronations, but this one has been made into a ...

Animated History of Western Architecture in Just 15 Minutes

These six super-short videos are an architectural tour de force for visual learners bent on absorbing as much as possible in as little time as needed. Narrated by actor Ewan McGregor, the Design ...

Art of Absence: Brick Street Mural Made of Unpainted Void

White wall frames cracked red bricks shaped like rust-colored autumn leaves, all trailing down to a black silhouette of a painter and his bucket - but looks can be deceiving, and this lovely ...

Self-Sufficient City: Zero-Waste, Carbon-Neutral & Car-Free

It sounds like a conceptual design or science-fiction fantasy, but it is already under construction. Rising in the desert outside of Abu Dhabi, Masdar City will be the world's most sustainable ...

Wheel House: Circular Hobo Home is a Rolling Circus Marvel

In this strange circus performance piece, two travelers turn architectural conventions on end, moving an offbeat nomadic home through a comedic narrative via carefully choreographic actions. A ...

Sandcastle Suburbs: Beach Buildings Form Fragile Sprawl

If castles of sand are ordinarily creative (if childish) works of artistic expression, then these are their opposite - boring and relentless repetition of identical houses inspired by postwar ...

3D-Printed Prosthesis: Custom Casts & Artificial Limb Covers

Customization has long been a limiting factor in certain aspects of medical practice, particularly those centering around damaged or lost limbs  creating different person-specific needs. 3D ...

Building Eraser: Smart Robot Scans & Deconstructs Concrete

Whether the building is a bare-bones warehouse or five-star hotel, demolition is an equally messy business - but perhaps it does not have to be. What if demolition teams could precisely separate ...

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