Summerson: The Little House
4 March 2020
Summerson: The Little House4 March 2020
…get under a piece of furniture or some extemporised shelter of his own and to exclaim that he is in a ‘house’. Psychoanalysis interprets this kind of play in various…
Leto Litho Leningrad
20 February 2020
Leto Litho Leningrad20 February 2020
…derives pride and almost a sensual pleasure from being unrecognised, rejected, and yet it is perfectly aware that, for everyone whose mother tongue is Russian, the city is more real…
Next Year in Yemen
9 February 2020
Next Year in Yemen9 February 2020
…pencil or with an ink pen. As we chewed qat in the home of the village elder in the afternoon, my lines naturally became looser and the contours less rigid….
Hotel Sphinx (1978)
18 May 2020
Hotel Sphinx (1978)18 May 2020
…a spider’s web – will link all the subway stations that now serve the Times Square area. The legs of the Sphinx contain escalators ascending to a large foyer serving…
Instead of an Article (1958)
3 June 2020
Instead of an Article (1958)3 June 2020
– Alvar Aalto
…architecture exists only where man stands in the center. His tragedy and his comedy, both. In order to lighten the foregoing, a small, gentle postscript: A great scientist, of an…
humour & satire