This is a guest post by Dr Tom Bellfield, a part 2 architectural assistant at SCABAL, an architecture practice specialising … More
Category: Architecture & Language
Posts and Interviews about the relationship between Architecture and the words used to discuss it
A Useful Definition of Architecture
What is architecture? A helpful definition by Giancarlo De Carlo clarifies what architecture is and who’s involved.
On Forgetting: Some Similarities between Architecture and Social Media
Architecture and social media share a way of being understood as neutral things – their social production being obscured.
The Changing Vocabulary of Education and its Spaces
A post exploring changes in the words used to talk about education e.g. the shift from “classroom” to “learning space”.
Making Spaces, Forgetting Politics
Walls* are breaks (Vesely, 2013). They break into established categories of meaning and space and make new ones. They do … More
“Zigzag, white, no life”: a Martian’s View of Architecture
Our interactions with Google search results appear to contribute to the fetishization of Architecture as big white ribbed structures. This post explores why.
Open Space Good, Closed Space Bad? Problems with Architecture and Language
In which Marie, a 12-year-old student, explains how large, open-plan spaces feel claustrophobic.
