Looking back, this whole train of thought was triggered by a new life event that's about to happen (stated at the end of this email).

In January, during the expedition for my next book about Alpine Vacation Architecture, I visited one of those very familiar types of car centric city: Salzburg. Looks great from the car, but not much to see aside from the city center - your standard issue European pedestrian area. The outskirts are real nice too: hills with lovely views towards the Eastern Alps, big lakes, lovely forests. Surrounding villages, even like 30 minutes away, still have "Salzburg" in their name. Roads are perfect, by the way.

It's almost like they focused their attention on me, the visitor. Well, they do that, actively, in neoliberal cities. If you'd like to learn more about that, there's an article below.

Or you can just read about how to build a nice place in the mountains that you can rent out for passive income. Spoiler alert: it's not passive.

If you're wondering why I chose Haus und Hof, a Brutalist boutique hotel, as one of the 5 most relevant examples of Alpine Vacation Architecture, then maybe you should read about Critical Regionalism. Frampton's famous paper, the one that created a whole architectural style, is linked below as a PDF.

Recent articles

Neoliberal Architecture in Europe Neoliberal architecture is the result in urban design and building practice that reflects the exertion of neoliberalism principles. Read article

Haus und Hof, Salzburg AU Starting the Alpine Vacation Architecture series with the most atypical one in the bunch. Read article

Critical Regionalism Architecture critic Kenneth Frampton's most iconic work, describing an architecture of resistance against homogenisation. Get as PDF

And now, the life event in question. I'm moving again. Seriously, I'm moving to the forest. I figured you either live in town and use public transportation or you live outside of town and you own a car. Currently, I have both. I like my car. I also use my car to go to the forest twice a week for a trail run. Hence, I chose the latter and now I am also part of the problem.

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