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“What did you just say?” and Other Frustrations in Architecture Speak

by Tommy Manuel

On sec­ond thought, for­get it.  I was going to post some­thing here on the trou­bling phe­nom­e­non of lan­guage in archi­tec­ture, par­tic­u­larly acad­e­mia.  It’s down right ridicu­lous at times, which is most of the time, and it pisses me off. After a total of seven years study­ing archi­tec­ture, I can’t begin to tell you them amount […]

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Monograph Studio, Final Review, Spring 2009

by Tommy Manuel

 Cover image from my mono­graph, 2008.

Last Fri­day I had the priv­i­lege of sit­ting in as a critic for the stu­dio led by Ada Tolla and Giuseppe Lig­nano with Thomas de Moncheaux at Columbia’s GSAPP. Hav­ing been on the other side of the table just a year ago, I had a lot of excite­ment about seeing […]

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