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Studio Works.

Human beings are unique in retaining the capacity for play.

In art we conceive and combine new forms that enrich our lives.

To live more intensely than usual, inhabiting the whole of our humanity.

Mythology is an art form that points beyond history to what is timeless in human existence, and as such it (myth) helps us to get beyond the chaotic flux of random events, and perhaps allows a glimpse at the core of reality.

A Short History of Myth.

Karen Armstrong.

The Haptic Sense of Making.

Doing and feeling at the  same time.

The physical/spiritual/corporeal sense of being/becoming.

The Spatial Dimension.

Defining Self/Organizing Experience.

The human body its feelings at the centre of the architectural form.

Making Atmospheres/Environments. 

A Place Set Apart.

Mark Rothko.

WORK, volumes 1-6.

Don't Forget The Lamb.

Lamina.

Brian Clarke.

NOT FOR RESALE.

BOOKS FOR EDUCATIONAL USE ONLY.

Sowing the seeds of knowledge.

Dawson Books.

Body, Memory, and Architecture.

In the hands of a brilliant craftsman like Mies van der Rohe, a spatiality of alienation may still provide its rewards through the elegance of material and construction. But the more extreme applications of Cartesian space present an insidious threat to our identity as individuals. The other extreme to alienation of the body is over-manipulation of the body. Our bodies are circuited out of existence as our world is realized in electonically stimulated sensation.

To help people inhabit the world, we feel, the basic act is not organizing but caring; the architect's client is not undifferentiated society but caring individuals. In the rhetoric of the past decades, the difficult act of dwelling , based on the act of caring, is elitist. It requires effort, and that sets some apart from others. 

The architects' proper role, it seems to us, is an accepting and absorbing one, to encourage others to make the effort and to develop the physical surrounds that make dwelling possible and attractive. Curiously, the wholesale inhuman 'social' manipulation of urban form by twentieth-century architectural and planning offices has put a disproportionate emphasis on originality, on the unique.

 

Rather, we believe, the design of the environment is a choreography of the familiar and the surprising, in which the familiar has the central role, and a major function of the surprising is to render the familiar afresh.

Kent C. Bloomer, Charles W. Moore. 1977

Alternative Construction.

Contemporary Natural Building Methods.

Prototyping For Architects.

Sensing Spaces.

Marking The Line.

Ceramics and Architecture.