We don’t have a door, there’s just a gap, very narrow and quite deep. In fact it’s so tight that it presses against your chest as you ...

^Charles Moore Foundation interior (Living Room) "If (as the philosophers maintain) the city is like some large house, and the h...

Everything is filled with you, and everything is filled with me: the towns are full, just as the cemeteries are full of you, all t...

^V1 Rocket Damage in Antwerp 1944 “I live with my body in danger as regards menacing machines as well as manageable instruments. My b...

^The Great Lawn, Central Park, in Spring < source > In expectation of Spring, new things and old, here is an extract from Teju Col...

walk the spiral up out of the pavement Into your reflection, into transparency, into the space where flat planes are curves ...

We walked to the quay for the fishermen's party (red wine in plastic beakers, sandwiches of fresh caught sardines, their treasure...

^aftermath of a vehicular accident, University of Georgia ( source ) The opening paragraphs of Karl Ove Knausgaard's 'A Death...

^Titian's Bacchanal, 1523 ( source ) Another extract from Arendt's The Human Condition, this time on the foundational nature of...

^Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Phidias Showing the Frieze of the Parthenon to his Friends Two extracts relating to the City ( polis ) from Ha...

^ Richard Hamilton "Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing?" 1956 From Jonathan Franzen...

^Plan of Victims, Berlin, John Hejduk 1986 Text by John Hejduk from his afterword to Stanley Tigerman's Monograph: "...

LF: Is architecture democratic? EA: Without a client who is enlightened and establishes a high standard for approximation, you don’t...

What occurs on the scale of the individual building, namely what has been discussed earlier with regard to ruins: the erosion of fo...

^Tower, Sant’ Andrea delle Fratte, Borromini ( source ) There are explosive minds of the kind of unstoppable genius that can bring for...

Below is an extract from Herber Marcuse's " One Dimensional Man : Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society", a...

1:   Rossi's Inequality , aka the Architectural Memory Theorem The minimum meaningful architectural configuration is greater than and...

Drawing For a Lamp, Michele De Lucchi, 1981 A few extracts from Memphis' 1982 publication, edited and written by Barbara Radice, in w...