Tag / The Architectural Mythologems

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  • A Brief Dictionary of Architectural Syntax

    Architecture must be understood as a language if we wish to make art of it, because every art form is, at its foundation, a language of its own. Not because buildings literally speak, but because architectural elements can carry meaning, establish relationships, construct sequences, and influence the way we experience space — as well as…

  • Manifesto Against Reduction

    This is a manifesto for an architecture that refuses reduction. It refuses to reduce space to function, beauty to appearance, myth to fiction, or the human being to what can be measured. The Architectural Mythologems begins from another premise: architecture can question, reveal, disturb, and transform. What follows is not a statement of style. It…