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Snapshots from Shark Talk with David Shapiro, 06.23.09

by Tommy Manuel

Here are some snap­shots taken at last week’s Shark Talk with David Shapiro.  My apolo­gies for the poor qual­ity, but the light­ing wasn’t the best. It was a great evening with Shapiro shar­ing sto­ries of his long-time friend John Hej­duk, com­plete with imper­son­ations!  I was hop­ing we’d get around to Shapiro treat­ing us to the […]

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Eikonographia: A New Architecture Criticism, by Michiel van Raaij

by Tommy Manuel

This is a very inter­est­ing and rel­e­vant piece. You can read the arti­cle here. I can say from my own recent archi­tec­tural edu­ca­tion that much of the insti­tu­tion­al­ized archi­tec­tural the­ory and crit­i­cism is lost on stu­dents today, myself included.
This is not to say I or my class­mates didn’t find the­ory and crit­i­cism inter­est­ing, but rather […]

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