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Wyld’s Great Globe

Posted on March 29, 2012 by Graham Shawcross

Wyld’s Great Globe: Following Richard Coyne’s post on Panoptic Man http://richardcoyne.com/2012/02/25/panoptic-man/ I thought it might be useful to post the following remarks about Panorama buildings. For my wife’s 60th birthday, in 2007, we took our two sons and their partners … Continue reading →

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A Dream World

Posted on February 3, 2012 by Graham Shawcross

A Dream World: A Celestial Geometer imagines a world made up entirely of the following diagram He asks a handy systems analyst newly arrived in heaven, after a life of endless toil working on CAAD, to design a computer database … Continue reading →

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Aesthetics

Posted on January 25, 2012 by Graham Shawcross

Aesthetics: Successor to Plain and Provisional investigating what sort of aesthetics might be appropriate and sustainable. implicit order Repetition, grouping, alternation etc of elements effects perceived order. pattern                         … Continue reading →

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Plain and Provisional

Posted on January 23, 2012 by Graham Shawcross

Plain and Provisional: A largely visual argument occasioned by 2 well known Manchester housing schemes. 1 Lovell East Manchester Exemplar Housing       In Venturi and Brown terms, this scheme is definitely a Duck. Plans manipulated to provide interesting … Continue reading →

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Buffon’s American Degeneracy

Posted on January 20, 2012 by Graham Shawcross

Buffon’s American Degeneracy: George Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707-1788) disliked what he thought was the arbitrary nature of Linnaean classification. Buffon thought the natural world ought to be understood in all its complexity and consequently produced his monumental (36 … Continue reading →

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Mimicry and Bad Taste

Posted on January 16, 2012 by Graham Shawcross

Mimicry and Bad Taste: Originally this was a reply to Richard Coyne’s blog on Inconspicuous Architecture http://richardcoyne.com/2011/12/31/inconspicuous-architecture/ I was frustrated at not being able to insert images into my response so decided to set up this blog. I hope this … Continue reading →

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