For avid architect-watchers in the US, spotting and correctly identifying a typical architect in its natural landscape seems easy, but only on the surface. One must be careful not to mistake an architect for an interior designer or even a German tourist. Here are some tips for correct identification.
Friday, June 28, 2013
See?
"We can begin by understanding that we interpret the world
through specific lenses, and it's within our own power to change our
glasses."
– Bruce Nussbaum in Creative Intelligence
So true. It isn't a wrongness to have a lens and view but it is also a big importance to realize that we are all standing somewhere that makes a point of view, and to understand there are many different glasses in the world, many different points to view from... Some of it overlapping, some of it divergent, mostly complicated and conflated for it's inter-being in a larger soup pot. Our common humanity.
– Bruce Nussbaum in Creative Intelligence
So true. It isn't a wrongness to have a lens and view but it is also a big importance to realize that we are all standing somewhere that makes a point of view, and to understand there are many different glasses in the world, many different points to view from... Some of it overlapping, some of it divergent, mostly complicated and conflated for it's inter-being in a larger soup pot. Our common humanity.
Monday, June 24, 2013
The Inaugural Post!
Beginning a blog about architecture begins with the question: why? Or perhaps more accurately, why do I care?
Architecture is that inescapable backdrop against which life happens. Human existence is always somehow influenced by the architecture in which it takes place, for good or for ill. I hope (with help from my co-editor!) to make this blog an interesting mix of discussions about high- and low-brow culture and what impact architecture has on all these different aspects of life. I want to talk about the field of architecture and its relationships to feminism, social and geopolitical revolutions, government corruption, the ethics of practice, etc., just as much as I want to talk about architecture in comic books and movies.
And since I know architects don't read, I'll be adding posts with photos and drawings as well, don't worry!
Stay tuned for forthcoming posts about (among other things) the following topics:
Architecture is that inescapable backdrop against which life happens. Human existence is always somehow influenced by the architecture in which it takes place, for good or for ill. I hope (with help from my co-editor!) to make this blog an interesting mix of discussions about high- and low-brow culture and what impact architecture has on all these different aspects of life. I want to talk about the field of architecture and its relationships to feminism, social and geopolitical revolutions, government corruption, the ethics of practice, etc., just as much as I want to talk about architecture in comic books and movies.
And since I know architects don't read, I'll be adding posts with photos and drawings as well, don't worry!
Stay tuned for forthcoming posts about (among other things) the following topics:
- The Pritzker Prize - often called the Nobel Prize of architecture, which I believe is completely facetious and I explain why.
- A comparison of urban centers in the DC universe versus the Marvel universe, and why these differences are part of the greater differences between what stories DC and Marvel choose to tell.
- Howard Roark, and why this archetype of architect can't die off quickly enough.
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