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Architectural Review, The, March, 2008 by Sutherland Lyall

Norman Blogster, whose totally readable PartIV features regularly in this column, had gone a tad monosyllabic over the Christmas break. Now he's serialising The Honeywood File at http://tinyurl.com/2vfeuv. Ask that broken down old architect in the corner of the office if you don't know about this once-seminal work. But I'm just as grateful for his recommendation of the Kosmograd blog. It's at http://kosmograd.com and is the work of new media and marketing man, Martin Gittins. PR! Sniff!! you go. But what is great about this (presumed) architect naif, is that he comes at architecture from a different angle from those of us trained up in the architectural long-houses. It means that he is cheerfully promiscuous about what architecture might be-about and what topics might be interesting for architecture and architects--such as Chlorofillia, Wireframe London, SimCity infrastructure planning and the perspectivist, Hugh Ferriss. Which is bound to piss off those guardians of the great architectural arcana who value single-minded consistency and hate deviation. I'm reminded of the way Site was consistently snubbed by Charlie Jencks in the 70s. Gittins has just started a collaboration, Superspatial (at www.superspatial.com) with Helsinki-based Lewis Martin of the archi-blog leivism (www.lewism.org). It 'will focus on architecture, urbanism and architectural speculation'. Under the new spell of free-association Gittins you immediately think of that Australian band currently touring the US, Architecture in Helsinki.

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Architectural Review, The, March, 2008 by Sutherland Lyall

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