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Dossier #008 The Inherited Perimeter
An artificial intelligence committee, read as the latest entry in a ledger the house has kept since 1837
May 31
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Sutong Chen
Issue #009 | The Boiling Frog
Valentino's year of AI, read six months on
May 27
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Sutong Chen
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Dossier #007 | The Architecture of Friction
Recognising AI's Different Roles in Cultural-Capital Institutions
May 22
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Sutong Chen
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Issue #008 | When a National Museum Rushed onto the Table: The Stain on Its Own Name
09:00 New York · 14:00 London · 21:00 Beijing
May 19
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Sutong Chen
Dossier #006 | The Architecture of Two Speeds
Why the AI Era is Gentle with Top Traditional Institutions
May 14
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Sutong Chen
Issue #007 | Outside the Velvet Wall: A Decade at Minerva University
09:00 New York · 14:00 London · 21:00 Beijing
May 12
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Sutong Chen
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Dossier #005 | The Velvet Maison
How one luxury maison distinguishes itself through the architecture that fully activates its 'stocks'.
May 7
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Sutong Chen
Issue #006 | The Building and the Ritual
Why a luxury maison can spend six years restoring a mansion and still leave its guests at the threshold.
May 5
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Sutong Chen
April 2026
Dossier #004 | The Same Shelf
On the institutions that never let their finest goods share a counter with their volume trade; and the structural reason most research universities do.
Apr 30
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Sutong Chen
Issue #005 | The Standard Acceptable
Why the most consequential decisions a university makes are no longer being read in the language they were written in.
Apr 28
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Sutong Chen
Meridian #001 | The Common Pathology
Trust managed as marketing is trust already spent.
Apr 22
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Sutong Chen
Dossier #003 | The Jade Argument
How one European house earned cultural authority by refusing to perform it.
Apr 16
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Sutong Chen
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