Q+A with David Adjaye

Please join gray_matter(s) on for a conversation with David Adjaye. Wednesday 1pm, Hinman Cave.

WHYAREYOUHERE?

We’re not there, we’re gone. //

Where’s Rem?

Our winner, Bryce Truitt.

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competition | where’s rem?

At the rebuilt Barcelona Pavilion? //

winter wonder | maps

Tbilisi, Georgia. //

ghost stories

There was a pane of glass. Or four. Three feet wide and seven feet tall. A set of glass doors at the center, as transparent and as essentially opaque as the surrounding windows. //

Peter Zumthor // Therme Vals

Secret photographs from Therme Vals. PDR + Shota. //

There Is A Crack In Everything; That’s How The Light Gets In

Three fragments of Leonard Cohen’s poetry; questions about art, design, and intention.

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what is gray_matter(s)?

‘Each wall of each hexagon is furnished with five bookshelves, each bookshelf holds thirty-two books, each book contains four hundred ten pages, each page, forty lines; each line, approximately eighty black letters.’ //

Mirror of Narcissus

Hounded by the Echo of urbanity, the site is frozen in a state of transparent flux. It can not progress or regress, but must indefnitely explore its own existence. //

An Obituary

It was a foundation: a makeshift substructure for delinquent ambitions, an ideal site for the unsanctioned architecture of skate punks, hood rats, graffiti artists, and other renegade masters of habitus. But they were too close for comfort. Too loud. Their park was found and destroyed, victim to the ruthless side of Beltline redevelopment. //

Geoff Manaugh // Nicola Twilley [an interview]

Fellow gray matter(s) writer Hamza Hasan and I recently had the opportunity to interview Geoff Manaugh of BLDGBLOG and Nicola Twilley of Edible Geography. Discussing everything from architectural iconography to misanthropic Leeds United fans, they articulated unique perspectives on blogging, poetry, education, the future, and more. //

The Architect Watchmaker

Kostas Terzidis delineated the future of architecture as the reclamation of intellectual ground lost to other professions. The architects’ liberation from the impositions of engineers, computer scientists, bureaucracies, and their own pretensions. He articulated this idea as “The architect as toolmaker”. But perhaps it could go further? //

An Etymological History of Atlanta

How can the city be interpreted through a word that signifies an inevitable end? This inquiry traces the history of the word Terminus and explores the possibilities afforded by its implicit destinies and ambitions. //