HTC Experiments

An event celebrating AD’s 80 years (part of the London Festival of Architecture) will be held tomorrow (June 29) at The Jarvis Suite, RIBA, 66 Portland Place, London. It’s quite exciting that our AD Territory issue is just out at this time, and coincides with this event. Details about the event (snatched from the Sesquipedalist) [...]

An image above of the ‘Clone’ chair ( Julian Mayor, 2005) next to an English side chair. The chair was featured in the exhibition “Telling Tales” at the V&A; curator’s description below: “The shape of this chair is broadly that of a mid 18th-century Dutch or English side chair. Using software, Julian Mayor mapped the [...]

My short essay on dankness from a recent issue of Domus is included in the “Essay” section at right. It’s essentially a super-condensed version of the chapter of the same name from Subnature. If this essay spurs someone’s interest, I would be most curious to see any visual reactions you may have to the “historical” [...]