Posts Tagged ‘theory’

November 3rd, 2010 – New Contexts Redux

THEORY IS DEAD, MAY IT LIVE LONG AND PROSPER. After attending the New Contexts conference as a co-author, it has taken a few weeks for my brain to process the entire event. In a way participating in the co-authoring sessions was akin to the dream logic of both being yourself and being a fly on [...]

February 10th, 2010 – 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 [...]

February 3rd, 2010 – 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 [...]


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