Architecture

Pawn
Trade
Sell

Questionable objects are held in containment under high security.

“Be the music of your soul. Don’t be a pawn in someone else’s game.” – Amit Ray

Emergent patterns
Personal unfolding
Exploration process

Reality determination is the ramification of perception and interpretation operations.

“We start our acts of theorizing already engaged in actions to maintain and improve the conditions of our experienced existence.” – Edward E. Wilson

Corrosion resistant
Quonset Hut
Window tinting

Cole Camp used car dealership.

“If you’ve got a car you wanna move, mark it up by, say, 50%. Then draw a big ol’ line through that number, write the figure you want below it, and stick a red flag on the antenna that reads “Price Just Reduced!” Sold.” – Joanna Wiebe

Curious angles
Not conforming
To accepted standards

Built on a diagonal and crammed into a small sliver of land adjacent to the road, this new house is something of an optical illusion.

“I would not want to be the roofer for that multi-layer house . . . that’s just a piece of architectural insanity.” – Richard Nichols

Recording surface
Collective functioning
Recognizable constraints

Small towns offer up many intimate secrets.

“To all appearances, the artist acts like a mediumistic being who, from the labyrinth beyond time and space, seeks his way out to a clearing.” – Marcel Duchamp

Chimera
Evil spirit
Deterrent

Serving the common good by controlling building entry, demons are put on notice.

“If you can’t do something smart, do something right.” – Shepherd Book

Heterogeneous elements
Assemblage function
Under consideration

The sandy path to the beach passes by houses of different vintage.

“The territorial assemblage continually passes into other assemblages.” – Félix Guattari

Out of sight
Middle ground
Fine balancing

Predicable problems ensue when too many big houses are built on small adjacent lots.

“At all times let a person be supple as the reed and not rigid as the cedar.” – Rabbi Nathan

Mechanistic expression
Essential staticism
Closure aim

Diptychs can play with perspective. Subject to occasional sudden transformations, most of the time the human world is an assemblage of enduring re-identifiable objects that change gradually.

“The world is not static and the status quo is not sacred.” – Harry S. Truman

Juxtaposition
Facade details
Flatten space

Blur, shapes, and angles interplay to create a provocative visual experience.

“In my eyes, every building has its own architectural language with a totally individual vocabulary.” – Sebastian Weiss