topics whose value lies largely in the moment
There’s been a flurry of articles voicing fears of AI in creative fields such as art, graphic design and, to a lesser extent, poetry and literature and, to a lesser extent still, architecture. As soon as computer processing speed and power increased, it was inevitable that this would be showcased by computers challenging humans in […]
June to December last year was a golden time for the blog. Visitor and page view numbers were rising to approach what they’d been in 2018 before I tired of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and the treadmill of promoting. I continued to announce new posts on LinkedIn though. American reader numbers have always been the largest […]
Ten years ago this week was misfitsarchitecture‘s first post, The Tree is Not Trying to Look Beautiful, about how some things are beautiful precisely because they’re not trying to convince us they are. Here we are, ten years and five hundred and ten posts later. The blog’s name misfitsarchitecture was chosen to indicate a position […]
The first difference I noticed in my recent ArchDaily bingewatch [c.f. Misfits’ Trienniale] was how less intrusive text was. It was now optional with a “Read more” link that, to be accurate, should probably more correctly read “Read?” Clicking it loaded the “story” as images interspersed with text mostly describing those images – the captions, basically. […]
Bucharest Architecture Triennale JULY 10th – OCTOBER 2019Seoul Architecture Biennale SEPTEMBER 7th – NOVEMBER 10th 2019Tallinn Architecture Bienalle SEPTEMBER 11th – NOVEMBER 30th 2019Sao Paulo Architecture Biennale AUGUST 15th – SEPTEMBER 20th 2019Chicago Architecture Biennial SEPTEMBER 19th, 2019 – JANUARY 5th 2010Oslo Architecture Triennale SEPTEMBER 26th – NOVEMBER 24th 2019Lisbon Architecture Triennale OCTOBER 3rd – DECEMBER 2nd 2019Buenos Aires Architecture Biennale […]
Last December I had an e-mail from a Mr. Raphael Beaumond asking if I’d like to speak at JESTER*, a cultural café he was opening in Brussels in February. As Raphael explained, the jester was an historic court figure who could communicate to the king things no other court personage would dare. His real role […]
The Elizabethan structure that was to become Highclere Castle was given a Georgian makeover in the early 19th century and then, over 1838–1878, another one to become what we know it as today. The point of both exercises was to update the building to bring it into line with contemporary notions of functionality and beauty. Everyone seems to […]
“Pull out all stops” is one of those many curious English-language idioms that seem to exist to torment learners despite hardly anyone ever using them. This one is derived from an organist pulling out all stops on a church organ in order to deliver the full force of its sound. The stops are those knobs on the left […]
