Degraded Orbit
@degradedorbit.bsky.social
A site about abandoned places, unusual architecture, and underground culture. www.degradedorbit.com
New on the site: BRUTALIST BERLIN, 'a definitive new guide to Berlin's raw concrete landmarks and the historical forces that shaped them': www.degradedorbit.com/articles/bru...
November 13, 2025 at 9:47 AM
New on the site: BRUTALIST BERLIN, 'a definitive new guide to Berlin's raw concrete landmarks and the historical forces that shaped them': www.degradedorbit.com/articles/bru...
New on the site, Wassily Kandinsky’s "Point and Line to Plane":
"The synesthetic tendencies implicit in his argument become explicit by the beginning of the final section, where he attributes not just sound, but color and temperature to lines and angles…"
www.degradedorbit.com/articles/boo...
"The synesthetic tendencies implicit in his argument become explicit by the beginning of the final section, where he attributes not just sound, but color and temperature to lines and angles…"
www.degradedorbit.com/articles/boo...
October 29, 2025 at 1:10 PM
New on the site, Wassily Kandinsky’s "Point and Line to Plane":
"The synesthetic tendencies implicit in his argument become explicit by the beginning of the final section, where he attributes not just sound, but color and temperature to lines and angles…"
www.degradedorbit.com/articles/boo...
"The synesthetic tendencies implicit in his argument become explicit by the beginning of the final section, where he attributes not just sound, but color and temperature to lines and angles…"
www.degradedorbit.com/articles/boo...
The first in our series on the Bauhausbücher project covers Walter Gropius' "Modern Architecture":
"...from the industrial monumentality of proto-modernist Peter Behrens to the lighter geometric forms of Mies van der Rohe and Frank Lloyd Wright"
www.degradedorbit.com/articles/boo...
"...from the industrial monumentality of proto-modernist Peter Behrens to the lighter geometric forms of Mies van der Rohe and Frank Lloyd Wright"
www.degradedorbit.com/articles/boo...
BOOKS OF THE BAUHAUS: INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE - Degraded Orbit
International Architecture, the initial title in the Bauhausbücher series, serves as a manifesto of sorts for editor Walter Gropius. Its general subject asserts the primacy of architecture over the ot...
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October 22, 2025 at 11:46 AM
The first in our series on the Bauhausbücher project covers Walter Gropius' "Modern Architecture":
"...from the industrial monumentality of proto-modernist Peter Behrens to the lighter geometric forms of Mies van der Rohe and Frank Lloyd Wright"
www.degradedorbit.com/articles/boo...
"...from the industrial monumentality of proto-modernist Peter Behrens to the lighter geometric forms of Mies van der Rohe and Frank Lloyd Wright"
www.degradedorbit.com/articles/boo...
New on the site: A survey of the dizzying diversity of South Asia's decorated vehicles from @johnkpeck.bsky.social
www.degradedorbit.com/articles/tem...
www.degradedorbit.com/articles/tem...
October 6, 2025 at 3:08 PM
New on the site: A survey of the dizzying diversity of South Asia's decorated vehicles from @johnkpeck.bsky.social
www.degradedorbit.com/articles/tem...
www.degradedorbit.com/articles/tem...
Today on the site: the new Modern Helsinki Map sheds light on an unfairly neglected architectural corner of Europe www.degradedorbit.com/articles/map...
#helsinki #finland #modernism
#helsinki #finland #modernism
MAPPING MODERN HELSINKI - Degraded Orbit
With the new Modern Helsinki Map, Blue Crow Media extends their ever-expanding series to one of the world’s northernmost capitals. Too long seen as an outlier to the predominant cultural spheres of Eu...
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September 8, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Today on the site: the new Modern Helsinki Map sheds light on an unfairly neglected architectural corner of Europe www.degradedorbit.com/articles/map...
#helsinki #finland #modernism
#helsinki #finland #modernism
New on the site: Socialist Modernism in Riga www.degradedorbit.com/articles/soc...
June 4, 2025 at 9:54 AM
New on the site: Socialist Modernism in Riga www.degradedorbit.com/articles/soc...
New on the site: the beautifully varied signs and storefronts of Porto, Portugal www.degradedorbit.com/articles/por...
PORTO: SIGNS AND FACADES - Degraded Orbit
The storefronts, façades, and marquees of Portugal’s second city offer a startling blend of styles. Traditional tilework, geometric modernism, and startlingly honed typography often cover multiple sto...
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June 1, 2025 at 11:05 AM
New on the site: the beautifully varied signs and storefronts of Porto, Portugal www.degradedorbit.com/articles/por...
New from FUEL Publishing: Ukrainian Modernism www.degradedorbit.com/articles/ukr...
UKRAINIAN MODERNISM - Degraded Orbit
Ukraine’s 20th-century architectural legacy is complex, layered, and endlessly fraught. Featuring structures weathered by war, politics, and time in turn, Ukrainian Modernism, new from Fuel Publishing...
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May 8, 2025 at 7:36 AM
New from FUEL Publishing: Ukrainian Modernism www.degradedorbit.com/articles/ukr...
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Every restaurant in Berlin:
April 27, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Every restaurant in Berlin:
“Statista” at Berlin’s Haus der Stastik www.degradedorbit.com/articles/sta...
April 27, 2025 at 9:15 AM
“Statista” at Berlin’s Haus der Stastik www.degradedorbit.com/articles/sta...
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Back in Deutschland.
April 6, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Back in Deutschland.
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💀WEIRD CULT GATHERINGS💀
SPLIT SCREAM: OFF THE MAP co-author @johnkpeck.bsky.social was in Portland for the day; it was great getting the opportunity to hang out & overcaffeinate at @powells.bsky.social
SPLIT SCREAM: OFF THE MAP co-author @johnkpeck.bsky.social was in Portland for the day; it was great getting the opportunity to hang out & overcaffeinate at @powells.bsky.social
April 4, 2025 at 12:40 AM
💀WEIRD CULT GATHERINGS💀
SPLIT SCREAM: OFF THE MAP co-author @johnkpeck.bsky.social was in Portland for the day; it was great getting the opportunity to hang out & overcaffeinate at @powells.bsky.social
SPLIT SCREAM: OFF THE MAP co-author @johnkpeck.bsky.social was in Portland for the day; it was great getting the opportunity to hang out & overcaffeinate at @powells.bsky.social
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Five days left to win 1 of 10 copies of SPLIT SCREAM: OFF THE MAP featuring two New Weird Eco-Horror novelettes from @ideofmarch.bsky.social @johnkpeck.bsky.social & L. Mahler!
Just add OFF THE MAP to your Goodreads To-Read pile and you're entered! Info here:
www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...
Just add OFF THE MAP to your Goodreads To-Read pile and you're entered! Info here:
www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...
Split Scream Volume Seven
Volume Seven of the twin-novelette series takes readers…
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March 21, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Five days left to win 1 of 10 copies of SPLIT SCREAM: OFF THE MAP featuring two New Weird Eco-Horror novelettes from @ideofmarch.bsky.social @johnkpeck.bsky.social & L. Mahler!
Just add OFF THE MAP to your Goodreads To-Read pile and you're entered! Info here:
www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...
Just add OFF THE MAP to your Goodreads To-Read pile and you're entered! Info here:
www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...
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Brutalist Italy: www.degradedorbit.com/articles/bru...
February 26, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Brutalist Italy: www.degradedorbit.com/articles/bru...
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Novelettes are indeed apex vehicles of Weird. But what are they?
- Novel: 40K+ words.
- Novella: 20-40K words.
- Novela: Spanish soap opera.
- Novelette: Break 2-4 novels into a bowl; whisk vigorously. Heat with cheese, death, ham, sex, grief, or other themes; serve hot.
- Short story: 1-10K words.
- Novel: 40K+ words.
- Novella: 20-40K words.
- Novela: Spanish soap opera.
- Novelette: Break 2-4 novels into a bowl; whisk vigorously. Heat with cheese, death, ham, sex, grief, or other themes; serve hot.
- Short story: 1-10K words.
The novelette remains a storytelling vehicle seemingly tailor-made for Weird Horror.
The SPLIT SCREAM series returns next month to take you on two terrifying journeys OFF THE MAP!
New Weird Horror novelettes from @ideofmarch.bsky.social @johnkpeck.bsky.social & L. Mahler:
store.tenebrouspress.com
The SPLIT SCREAM series returns next month to take you on two terrifying journeys OFF THE MAP!
New Weird Horror novelettes from @ideofmarch.bsky.social @johnkpeck.bsky.social & L. Mahler:
store.tenebrouspress.com
February 26, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Novelettes are indeed apex vehicles of Weird. But what are they?
- Novel: 40K+ words.
- Novella: 20-40K words.
- Novela: Spanish soap opera.
- Novelette: Break 2-4 novels into a bowl; whisk vigorously. Heat with cheese, death, ham, sex, grief, or other themes; serve hot.
- Short story: 1-10K words.
- Novel: 40K+ words.
- Novella: 20-40K words.
- Novela: Spanish soap opera.
- Novelette: Break 2-4 novels into a bowl; whisk vigorously. Heat with cheese, death, ham, sex, grief, or other themes; serve hot.
- Short story: 1-10K words.
Worldwide Concrete: From Chicago to Seoul www.degradedorbit.com/articles/wor...
February 26, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Worldwide Concrete: From Chicago to Seoul www.degradedorbit.com/articles/wor...
Urbex in Dublin www.degradedorbit.com/articles/urb...
February 26, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Urbex in Dublin www.degradedorbit.com/articles/urb...
Eindhoven Modern www.degradedorbit.com/articles/ein...
February 26, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Eindhoven Modern www.degradedorbit.com/articles/ein...