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Search 2,500+ architecture, design, photography and art projects from Thisispaper, an independent publication running since 2011, every project selected by a…
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What it can do
- Search: Search 2,500+ hand-curated architecture, design, photography and art projects from Thisispaper. Returns a list of results with id, title and url.
- Fetch: Retrieve the full record for one Thisispaper project by id (the id returned by search). Returns title, text and the public url.
- Search Projects: Search 2,500+ hand-curated architecture, design, photography and art projects from Thisispaper. Returns ranked summaries (name, studio, city, year, category, intro, thumbnail, url, ci
What data it sees
Do you need an account
No: the server works without sign-in
Search 2,500+ architecture, design, photography and art projects from Thisispaper, an independent publication running since 2011, every project selected by a human editor. Search by taste metadata (material, light, colour, mood, composition), find visually similar work, browse the hand-built city guides.
Server tool list (10)
Raw names from tools/list. Only developers need these.
| search | Search 2,500+ hand-curated architecture, design, photography and art projects from Thisispaper. Returns a list of results with id, title and url. |
| fetch | Retrieve the full record for one Thisispaper project by id (the id returned by search). Returns title, text and the public url. |
| search_projects | Search 2,500+ hand-curated architecture, design, photography and art projects from Thisispaper. Returns ranked summaries (name, studio, city, year, category, intro, thumbnail, url, citation_url, provenance). Without an API key, results are capped at 5; pass Authorization: Bearer tip_live_... for full results. |
| similar_projects | Nearest projects to a given slug by visual + semantic similarity (precomputed SigLIP neighbours). Use the slug from search_projects results. |
| get_project | Full metadata for one project: machine-written description, design language, details and dimensions, plus the public URL. |
| search_by_taste | Search by taste metadata: material, light, color, mood, composition, subject. Unique to Thisispaper: these tags were written during human curation. Provide at least one dimension; results are ranked by how many dimensions match, then by recency. |
| browse | Newest projects in the archive first, optionally filtered by category: architecture, interiors, design, photography or art. |
| discover | One project chosen at random from the archive. Editorial serendipity: the way a reader opens a magazine to an unplanned spread. |
| list_guides | Every hand-curated Thisispaper guide and edition. Guides are places: Tokyo, Kyoto, Lisbon, Copenhagen. Editions are themes: Black Matter (black as a way of handling light), Jutaku (Japanese houses on narrow plots), Icons, Off-the-Grid, Monographs on single architects. Returns each one's title, type, one-line description, cover image and public URL. Filter by city or by type. The full guides and editions are reserved for Thisispaper+ members. |
| get_api_key | Mint a FREE Thisispaper Intelligence API key (200 calls/month) for an email address. The key is shown once; use it as Authorization: Bearer tip_live_... on this MCP endpoint and on the REST API. Max 3 keys per email. |