Archive for October, 2012
An old interview
Posted in juvenilia, tagged interview, Nirvana, Nottingham on 24/10/2012| Leave a Comment »
Architecture
Posted in theory, tagged book, Edward Tufte, quote on 24/10/2012| Leave a Comment »
This from Learning from Las Vegas, quoted in Edward R. Tufte’s classic The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (in the section about “self-promoting graphics”):
It is now time to reevaluate the once horrifying statement of John Ruskin that architecture is the decoration of construction, but we should append the warning of Pugin: It is all right to decorate a construction but never construct a decoration.
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