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Degraded Orbit

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A site about abandoned places, unusual architecture, and underground culture. www.degradedorbit.com

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Degraded Orbit @degradedorbit.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Zachelsberg: Potsdam’s abandoned shooting range degradedorbit.com/articles/zac...
A metal target in fallen leaves
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Degraded Orbit @degradedorbit.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
"In the book’s active grouping of these seemingly disparate figures, they gain a new layer of depth and intent, becoming part of a greater project, however posthumously." A review of Antifascist Architecture from Park Books: degradedorbit.com/articles/ant...
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ANTIFASCIST ARCHITECTURE - Degraded Orbit
Antifascist ArchitectureAndrew Santa Lucia & Daniel Jonas RocheIllustrated by Lane RickPark Books, Hardcover, 256 pages, CHF 39.00 In the opening sections of Antifascist Architecture, the authors exam...
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www.slowtravelberlin.com @slowberlin.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Berlin's Technical University was recently closed down due to structural safety issues. The university represents an impressively diverse architectural ensemble—as written about in this in-depth article by @johnkpeck.bsky.social www.slowtravelberlin.com/modernism-at...
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John K. Peck @johnkpeck.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Exactly one decade ago I grabbed this shot of 3 “Eck-Kneipe-Hunde” in Moabit. Each time I saw them they were curious yet skittish, and I collectively named them Cerberus.
3 small scruffy dogs in the dark doorway of a Berlin pub
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Degraded Orbit @degradedorbit.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
New on the site: "As spaces built to effectively hold and distribute heat, saunas-as-architecture lend themselves to the straight lines and simple geometries of modernism..." degradedorbit.com/articles/woo...
Cover of gestalten book “Ridiculously Good Looking Saunas”“Arctic Egg” sauna - photo by Jean-Baptiste BérangerJapanese sauna interior - photo by Keishin Korikoshi
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www.slowtravelberlin.com @slowberlin.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
One for the design nerds: @johnkpeck.bsky.social traces the history of Berlin’s public transport map designs… Read more here: www.slowtravelberlin.com/mapping-berl...
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Degraded Orbit @degradedorbit.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Inventing Greenland: Shape and Color in a World of Ice degradedorbit.com/articles/inv...
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Degraded Orbit @degradedorbit.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Our latest piece on Moholy-Nagy’s “From Material to Architecture”, a book “marked by an expansive, utopian vision of the possibility of the individual mind when freed from the modern limitations of specialization”. www.degradedorbit.com/articles/fro...
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BOOKS OF THE BAUHAUS: FROM MATERIAL TO ARCHITECTURE - Degraded Orbit
László Moholy-Nagy’s From Material to Architecture is the 14th book and final book in the Bauhausbücher series. Published in 1929, a year after his departure from the Bauhaus, it offers a comprehensiv...
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www.slowtravelberlin.com @slowberlin.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
The Hasen-Schänke in Neukölln’s Hasenheide park #berlin
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Degraded Orbit @degradedorbit.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Our latest piece on the Books of the Bauhaus covers Malevich’s “The Non-objective World”: "...Suprematism is a 'desert' in which objects shimmer into unreality, leaving only feelings and impressions..." www.degradedorbit.com/articles/boo...
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BOOKS OF THE BAUHAUS: THE NON-OBJECTIVE WORLD - Degraded Orbit
Like Kandinsky before him, Kasimir Malevich arrived at the Bauhaus already wielding an impressive international reputation. His trip to Germany in the spring of 1927 saw him visit both Dessau and Berl...
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Degraded Orbit @degradedorbit.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
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...
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Degraded Orbit @degradedorbit.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
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...
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Degraded Orbit @degradedorbit.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
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...
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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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Degraded Orbit @degradedorbit.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
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...
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Degraded Orbit @degradedorbit.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
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
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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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Degraded Orbit @degradedorbit.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
New on the site: Socialist Modernism in Riga www.degradedorbit.com/articles/soc...
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Degraded Orbit @degradedorbit.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
New on the site: the beautifully varied signs and storefronts of Porto, Portugal www.degradedorbit.com/articles/por...
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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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Degraded Orbit @degradedorbit.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
New from FUEL Publishing: Ukrainian Modernism www.degradedorbit.com/articles/ukr...
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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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Degraded Orbit @degradedorbit.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Photo Gallery: Paimio Sanatorium www.degradedorbit.com/articles/pho... #finland #aalto
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PHOTO GALLERY: PAIMIO SANATORIUM - Degraded Orbit
Paimio Sanatorium, located among the pine forests of southwestern Finland, is both a modernist marvel and a leading example of human-centered architecture. Completed in 1933, and based on a contest-wi...
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John K. Peck @johnkpeck.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Every restaurant in Berlin:
Quote from Fury Road: “Do not, my friends, become addicted to water - it will take hold of you, and you will resent its absence”
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Degraded Orbit @degradedorbit.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
“Statista” at Berlin’s Haus der Stastik www.degradedorbit.com/articles/sta...
Haus der Statistik Stop Wars - graffiti on HdS
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John K. Peck @johnkpeck.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Back in Deutschland.
Farming Simulator 22 at an airport kioskAd for “Barf Shop Leipzig”Landscape with crumpled Nutella box Train station with spring forest
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Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
💀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
Tenebrous publisher Matt Blairstone & author John K Peck in a killer Warning tee
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Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
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...
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Split Scream Volume Seven
Volume Seven of the twin-novelette series takes readers…
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www.slowtravelberlin.com @slowberlin.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
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Degraded Orbit @degradedorbit.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Brutalist Italy: www.degradedorbit.com/articles/bru...
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John K. Peck @johnkpeck.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
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.
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Degraded Orbit @degradedorbit.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Worldwide Concrete: From Chicago to Seoul www.degradedorbit.com/articles/wor...
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Degraded Orbit @degradedorbit.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Urbex in Dublin www.degradedorbit.com/articles/urb...
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Degraded Orbit @degradedorbit.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Eindhoven Modern www.degradedorbit.com/articles/ein...
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