the journal of an architect
You have until next Monday to hear Andrew Marr talk to Anish Kapoor and Deyan Sudjic discussing shape on Radio 4’s Start the Week
Here’s a taster:
Kapoor: To make new art one needs to make new space…a little history of the way I understand this…Medieval space, if one goes back that far, was flat; then of [...]
Bugger me. Somebody built my Info Pimp Force Diagram.
Share and Enjoy:
More notes from the Radio 3 interview…
On the relationship between the value of the material and the value of the product:
JT: You’ve said something about porcelain, but the fundamental material is clay, isn’t it? You’ve said that one of the fascinating things about clay is that people don’t know how to treat it in many [...]
Notes on TimeAndTheHunter/BloodSea (page 39)
The narrator casts his mind back, far from the car journey he is currently taking part in, to the primordial beginnings of his cellular existence, swimming, or being swum, through the medium that contains all life, whose movements effect the movements of all the interconnected points in the system, only in [...]
Two coffees after dessert at a restaurant and I’m lying in bed unable to sleep. I haven’t actually closed my eyes; I’m just staring at the back of my eyelids trying to recognise the shifting patterns of colour delivered by my rods and cones.
An idea that I’ve been neglecting for a while pushes its way [...]
eversion posted a photo:
So it turns out Eames was a fan of the Venn diagram approach to design thinking too. Here's his interpretation, as presented in The Art of Looking Sideways by Alan Fletcher.
eversion posted a photo:
