Tag: aesthetics

What’s an architect to do?

August 2, 2026

additions, aesthetics, renovations, repair, value adding

The suburb of Daglish in Perth, Western Australia has much green space in the form of roadside verges, parks, dog-friendly parks and playing fields. Many homes are large and relatively new and this relatively new double-story typology has an entrance, a double-car garage and possibly a master bedroom across the width of the block but, […]

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Party Game

December 28, 2025

Graham McKay

aesthetics, famous architects

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This last week of the year when the architectural internet is celebrating the ten best buildings of 2025 as is its custom, I’d like to consider the worst buildings a particular architect has put their name to. It’s too late to be an office party game or a Christmas party game but you can limit […]

AESTHETICS

🍎🍎 and 🍊🍊

September 1, 2024

Graham McKay

aesthetics

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At the end of the now long-ago post Teaching & Learning I implied that the teaching of music and the teaching of architecture might have something in common. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) famously said that architecture is frozen music but I wonder whose architecture and whose music he had in mind considering the time […]