Time and braveness
Use time well. Use time creatively. Don’t trap time. Don’t let time slip away. Don’t be scared. Be brave. This quote from Cedric Price Opera is in the Jude Kelly section on page 87. I’m not sure...
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The books on the desk, the thesis draft chapter
In lieu of giving you something to read that I’m working on, I’ll show you what I’m reading… the list now includes Alice in Wonderland, Nietzsche’s Gay Science, Johan Huizinga’s Homo Ludens, Karl...
View ArticleAn history of wrong footing
“NB* The socially delightful usefulness of responsive architecture has only recently gathered an establishment smart gloss and in so doing has cheapened the tight nice original usage of the very...
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Cedric Price books
Since June, my mind's been on Cedric Price (1934-2003). He was an eccentric British architect whose work combined theater, tools for social change, and a lack of interest in traditional concepts of...
View ArticleBecause you asked for it, well, two of you
I put my thesis on the internets. I'm going to be breaking it down into smaller bits on a blog I'll be launching soon to deal with this and all the other design, architecture, historical and...
View Articleweeknote 06
Enough with the snow. I’m in Los Angeles, or more precisely, Venice (and I missed the third snowstorm in 10 days in New Jersey). I will be shifting my time to be here more than not in the next several...
View ArticleDissertation proposal! Artificial Intelligence, Architectural Intelligence:...
UPDATE: My dissertation proposal. I’ve completed my dissertation proposal! My dissertation is tentatively titled “Artificial Intelligence, Architectural Intelligence: The Computer in Architecture,...
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weeknote 13: greetings from montreal
Greetings from the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal! I’m here on a Collections Research Grant to use the Cedric Price Archive. There are about 30 scholars in residence right now from the...
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A network of constant interactions and communications
[This post is a part of a month of Cyborgs, a project started by Quiet Babylon's Tim Maly. It's the first of two.] To get to cyborgs, we need to start with cybernetics. Norbert Wiener. Image source:...
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weeknote 15
Oxford Corner House network analysis diagram by Cedric Price: a project management tool he adapted for his own purposes in his projects (1966). These weeknotes haven’t exactly been weekly. I’ve been...
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