This post began by revisiting some of my favourite windows but morphed into something else, bringing together some past themes as well as some more recent ones. Rear garden window at Villa Beer, by Josef Frank, 1929 This window is all about enjoying a boundary rather than blurring one. This is a very Edwardian notion […]
Architecture and Philosophy don’t sit well together. Kant had a bit to say about aesthetics but not much to say about architecture. What little he did you’ll find here. The author of the piece says “Kant is responsible for the notion that architecture should express ideas, and also for competing views on what ideas it should express.” If so, Kant’s […]
To start, a quick summary of pp.285-291 from Deyan Sudjik’s The Edifice Complex. I think we have to accept this. Architecture is a device that allows us the chance to forget the precariousness of our position for a moment, to create at least the illusion of meaning when we measure it against its own internal […]
WELCOME TO 2014 – NEW YEAR, SAME AGENDA!It’s all beginning to become clearer. The plan is to divide Misfits’ efforts more or less evenly across three fronts. Championing useful yet unpretentious buildings. As ever. Not letting the others get away with it. Highlighting shifts in the cultural landscape (re. 2, but possibly 1.) So here’s […]
