Learning from Las Vegas: Architecture as Publishing Practice and Erasure
Separate but intertwined, the history of graphic design has a unique relationship to architectural history. One could describe it as a kind of coevolution, symbiotic perhaps, even if graphic design remains in architecture’s deep shadow. Only rarely are the intricacies of this relationship teased out into the light.
In a recent March 2010 talk at SCI-ARC [...]
On the Uselessness of Design Criticism
It is a rare occurrence when the vague ideas that might circulate in the back of your mind as a kind of wave of unconscious ticks are suddenly made to coalesce, not by some particularly brilliant insight of your own, but by someone else’s lucid and provocative statement. Purely through a combination of boredom and [...]
From the sub-sub librarian
“The notion of the common plan persists today in the term Bauplan, from the German meaning ground plan or an architects sketch or plan (Bau, design, type of construction, structure, form; plan, plan, design, intention), which was introduced into morphology in 1945 by Joseph Henry Woodger (1894-1981). Although more or less assimilated into biology, the [...]