Reading DesignWildly luxuriantly growing architectureEveryone, Hundertwasser suggests, should be allowed to build their own house. Because architects are capable only of creating the rigid…Jan 23, 2017Jan 23, 2017
Reading DesignFame and ArchitectureEvery starchitect hates to be called a starchitect. Just like no-one ever liked to be called a Post-Modernist. But the phenomenon is…Oct 25, 2016Oct 25, 2016
Reading DesignArchitects of the FutureThe death this year in close succession of Claude Parent and Ken Adam robbed architecture of two of its great modernist visionaries. One…Apr 12, 2016Apr 12, 2016
Reading DesignReading For LeisureThorstein Veblen and the birth of Design TheoryJan 8, 2016Jan 8, 2016
Reading DesignThis Post Will Autodestruct…Why are the HowToBasic videos so funny? Those spoof YouTube tutorials on how to perform simple creative tasks that quickly run amok. How To…Jan 8, 2016Jan 8, 2016
Reading DesignStreet Rooms: The Brief Situationist Guide to Urban DesignOne of the shortest, most enigmatic pieces on Reading Design was written by Guy Debord, the French Marxist and founder of the influential…Nov 10, 2015Nov 10, 2015
Reading Design“A book quite un-ornamented can look actually and positively beautiful.”What would William Morris have to say to the digital publisher? What words could the typographer, designer, poet and writer whose floral…Oct 5, 20152Oct 5, 20152