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Hassan Ragab
Nov 17, 20245 min read
Emergent Ignorance and Our Intangible Heritage: A Personal Essay on History, Technology, and Identity
As an Egyptian, part of the Egyptian American diaspora, and a person who is always unsure—always searching for answers—I’ve realized that...
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Hassan Ragab
Nov 8, 20246 min read
It's never what it seems "How I am learning to Stop Worrying and Hate the Noise"
"Screenshot from Identity Oblivious " I write this, as usual, at a conflicting time in my life. It’s a post I’ve meant to write for...
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Hassan Ragab
Aug 4, 20241 min read
The Contentious Decline of Both the Development and Usage of Generative AI Models in Architectural Conceptualization
There couldn't be a better time to be analytical about the usage of AI in general, particularly in architectural conceptualization and...
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Hassan Ragab
Jun 2, 20242 min read
What is (Ai) Kitsch in a world of industrialized art aesthetics?
I read something this morning about AI, art, and aesthetics. The argument was that AI lacks aesthetics and that most AI-generated work is...
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Hassan Ragab
May 6, 20245 min read
Ushering the World into Aesthetic Mediocrity?!
It's strange to have millions of people around the world notice you in just a few months. I think I forget that it's probably not normal....
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Hassan Ragab
Mar 29, 20242 min read
The city is a Tram - 17th months note
"The City is a Tram" is a series that I have been passionately working on for the past 17 months. This project holds a special...
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Hassan Ragab
Feb 19, 20243 min read
The city is a contextual human condition.
They didn't teach me psychology in architecture school, maybe architectural school does. Good schools will teach you sacred geometry,...
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Hassan Ragab
Feb 12, 20242 min read
Architects, what are you really up to?
With the rise of Gen-AI, numerous questions have arisen about the future careers of architects. Yet, perhaps Gen-AI prompts an even more...
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Hassan Ragab
Feb 10, 20243 min read
"Please drop me on Uranus" " زحل معاك ياسطي"
Humans have this cruel tendency to learn from the past without gaining actual wisdom. For a species desperate to "know" since the...
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Hassan Ragab
Jan 31, 20243 min read
Capitalism and Art: Technology as a Means to Become the Most Able
I don't think there is a definition of what "art" is. It definitely revolves around emotions and is most likely irrational. It's a craft...
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Hassan Ragab
Jan 3, 20241 min read
Hello World (not really!!).
I actually have an 11-year-old secret (public, so not so secret, I guess) blog where I bitch about life and everything. I will also be...
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