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Every minute, five hundred hours of video are uploaded to YouTube. Regarding architecture and spatial practices: lectures, keynotes, symposia, studio visits, talks — they accumulate into a vast, mostly inaccessible universe of knowledge. Algorithms promote consumption, not learning. A two-hour lecture might contain some minutes of relevant thoughts. But current search engines are not good enough. YouTube and Vimeo were built for watching, not for knowing.
Selector is an attempt to build that missing layer: a search engine for precise ideas and images embedded in long-form video. It works through the deliberate act of pause — stopping at the exact frame where something worth keeping has just been said, and converting that moment into a precisely located, permanently retrievable fragment: a still image, a description, the verbatim quote, and a timestamped deep link directly to the source. Each snapshot is an editorial decision, they are specific 'bricks' allowing to understand architecture as a common field of knowledge.
The archive draws from lectures, keynotes, symposia, building sites and studio visits in architecture, construction, urbanism and culture — a growing selection that includes a diverse set of authors from different fields. What the tool makes visible is the proximity of ideas across sources that would never otherwise be read together: thinking in relation.
Selector is a visual research tool built from architecture lectures. It turns long videos into a browsable archive of precise moments — each card a direct link to the exact second in the source recording where a drawing, diagram, or project appears.
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