This blog is the resurrection of a previous one, started with enthusiasm and abandoned as university deadlines precluded any form of activity beyond working, stressing about the lack of work or dry sobbing over a pile of balsa and cardboard. Now graduated and with my usual audience no longer trapped in a studio with me and little to occupy my time, it felt appropriate to begin anew.
I am forever awash with thoughts and ideas about anything and everything, especially when it comes to how everything and anything relate to architecture and/or the city. So rather than continually berating my friends, they suggested I found a place where howling into the void about whatever happens to be on my mind is encouraged. Unable to afford a psychiatrist I chose the internet and so begins my foray into blogging.
“My mind,” he said, “rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere"
Sherlock Holmes, Sign of the Four
The broad theme is architecture and the city. However as you will discover, my definition of architecture, much to the pained chagrin of my tutors and peers, its monumentally elastic. Suffice to say that discussions about buildings will form a part but not a majority of things discussed here. Ultimately this blog is best viewed as a landfill of ideas, thoughts, dreams, polemics and rants that might otherwise be contributing to my early demise if not properly vented somewhere. Apparently they can be quite interesting. I will leave it you over the coming months to decide.
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| I'd like to think that this blog will be a sober and intelligent probing of my discipline. But probably not. |
*Title is taken from Dante's Divine Comedy, the end of Canto II of Inferno. This pretty much sets the tone I am afraid. If you aren't a fan of references and increasingly lateral thinking on the discipline of architecture "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here."
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