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Visual Pangrams
How Space Begins: Georges Perec This is an extract from The Page the first essay in Georges Perec’s Species of Spaces and Other Pieces, Perec (1974, 1997). “This is how space begins, with words only, signs traced on the blank page. To describe space: … Continue reading
Doing Things The Hard Way
Andre Cassagnes the inventor of Etch A Sketch died at the weekend. Etch A Sketch is an ingenious analogue device, that paradoxically makes sketching more difficult yet has sold over 100 million copies since 1960. Some of its charm must … Continue reading
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The Long and the Short
A year-out student Tom Kirby emailed an office of 200 people asking what the convention was for beyond and behind dotted line styles. No one knew. On-line searches didn’t prove very helpful so in one of those mad delightful collective … Continue reading
Posted in Aperiodic Tiling, Architecture, Frozen Music, Rhythm
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A Continuous Semantic Space……
I came across a report of this recently in the New Scientist and thought it might be important as it seems to suggest that the brain locations of names of objects and actions have some commonality across the brains of … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Brain Physiology, Classification
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Enjoying Randomness
This came about after visiting Loch Maddy in North Uist and trying to think of ways to emulate the strange way that the land and sea merge into each other there and realising that the technique had wider uses as well. … Continue reading
Posted in Aesthetics, Architecture, Randomness
Tagged Aesthetics, Architecture, Randomness
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Visual Thinking
I have recently become interested in visual thinking, probably because I like making arguments visually but also as a result of having encountered problems in producing simple easy to understand diagrams. Diagrammatic Illustrations The minimal (graphics only) version above contains … Continue reading
Oscar Niemeyer
The death of Oscar Niemeyer reminded me of an enjoyable September 2010 visit to Paris with the Twentieth Century Society. Among other wonderful buildings including Pierre Chareau’s Maison de Verre we visited Oscar Niemeyer’s Paris Communist Party Headquarters which later became … Continue reading
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Design Methods
Design Methods are now so out of fashion that some of its most important documents have recently been thrown out of the Minto House library, including The Design Method (Gregory S. A. 1966) I was trained, 1963-1968, at Sheffield School … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Design, Design Methods
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Aesthetics of Aperiodic Tilings
Wang tilings seem to me to be visually more interesting than their plain or decorated aperiodic tiling generators. The various versions of the same Penrose P2 tiling below all look very uniform, with their randomness hardly registering, whilst the randomness … Continue reading
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Find Your Own Space
A randomly distributed sets of points can be considered as the lowest state of architectural order; the placing of the simplest object, a point, with the least degree of structure, being randomly placed. Well distributed point sets are important in … Continue reading
Posted in Aesthetics, Aperiodic Tiling, Architecture, Geometry, Tiling
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