Month: April 2011
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Out of Thin Air
We cannot expect to extract ideas and schemes from the student without first feeding his mind and imagination. Bernhard Hoesli and Colin Rowe, 1954 (1) As informational networks bind us ever more tightly together, they also introduce unseen gaps and fissures within fields of knowledge. While in some cases, these are the product of distraction…
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Materialisms and Excess
Waste not, want not.1 Austerity is in the air. Excess is out; efficiency is in. Quantitative measures supercede the qualitative just as performative and operative strategies displace poetics and play. And in these historical moments, the serious obligations of professional practice are often drawn into the academy. The balance shifts from open-ended speculation to applied,…
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