Captain Lin Rauch
Bones for a Roof: Fisac's Hollow Concrete Beam That Spans, Lights and Drains
Fisac's hollow post-tensioned bone beam spans 22 m, lights and drains a Madrid hall. Now on show in Newcastle: ask what every void in your roof does.
Gemini 4 Argon: What a $2 Frontier Model Means for a Swiss Office Stack
Gemini 4 Argon arrives at $2/$10 per million tokens with a 1M output window. What it means for tender review, nDSG data routing and Swiss office AI stacks.
Barcelona's Superblocks Run on an 1859 Rule Set: Cerdà's Chamfered Block, Read a Second Time
Barcelona's superblocks read Cerdà's 1859 chamfered grid a second time. The rule set, the measured health gains, and a GhPython sketch for your own city.
The flight path drew the skyline: Kowloon Walled City, cyberpunk's real prototype
About 350 self-built towers, 33,000 people, no architect: how the Kai Tak flight path drew Kowloon Walled City, and what Swiss offices can learn.
Kalkbreite, Read From the Rails Up: A Small City Stacked on a Working Tram Depot
Kalkbreite in Zürich, read from the rails up: VBZ depot, city ring, raised courtyard, 256 residents, and the written rules that hold the megablock together.
Linkages after Origami: Harvard and Tokyo Grow Collapsible Surfaces One Joint at a Time
A Harvard and University of Tokyo team grows deployable scissor lattices joint by joint. What it means for kinetic facades and pavilions in Switzerland.
Digital Identity Architecture: Follow the Load Path from Credential to Site Gate
How NIST's identity roles, verifiable credentials and per-request checks work, and what they mean for BIM servers, site gates and Switzerland's e-ID.
Delirious New York at 48: Koolhaas Mapped Manhattan's Stack Before Building Anything
Rem Koolhaas wrote Manhattan's theory after it was built. What Delirious New York teaches a Zürich Wettbewerb team about stacked uses and shared cores.
The Photon Pushes Everything Equally. Only the Mass Decides.
From Sänger's 1957 photon rocket to IKAROS and Würzburg's light-steered swimmer — one equation, two verdicts, and the ratio habit every AEC desk needs.
A Pattern Language Is a Dependency Graph, Not a Book
Christopher Alexander's 253 patterns form a directed dependency graph. Read them by in-degree and map your office's load-bearing details before scaling AI.
