Sam Jacob
Sam Jacob is principal of Sam Jacob Studio, professor of architecture at University of Illinois at Chicago, director of Night School at the Architectural Association, and the editor of Strange Harvest. Previously, he was a director of internationally acclaimed architecture practice FAT.
Stories by Sam Jacob
“Christmas decorations are winter as skeuomorphism”
“It’s time to refigure the design problem of the London street”
“The beach is part of the same landscape as the city”
“We are surrounded by zombie architecture”
“Cities are being redrawn according to Google’s world view”
“Prism is the dark side of design thinking”
“Money acts as a piece of national pageantry”
“Architectural education must change”
“Unboxing videos represent a form of design criticism”
“Offices designed as fun palaces are fundamentally sinister”
“The history of human culture is written not in text but in objects”
“The digital is a lens through which we can view the entire history of design”
“Protest by way of marketing prevents us achieving anything”
“Cute nostalgia sits strangely with Brutalism”
“There’s no fun, no risk and no imagination in luxury design”
“The Hot Dog Stuffed Crust Pizza is a product of the zeitgeist”
“Extending copyright for design condemns us to mid-century modernism”
“There’s no column in the spreadsheet for ideology”
“We can’t draft a new world and print it out”
