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Welcome to The Built Word.
I’m Charlotte Cole, I started The Built Word because architectural theory deserved better than a dusty lecture hall. It deserved an argument, a laugh, and occasionally a very strong opinion. Now it’s grown into something more: a journal, a community, a shop, and an ongoing love letter to the built world.
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A space for architectural theory and development.
Hello I’m Charlotte Cole and this is my architecture blog. It all started because I realised that I desperately needed a space to talk about theory and philosophy. I then started to think maybe others needed it too, thus the Built Word community was born. Here I’ll post a constellation of material such as:
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