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tmntfan's review
3.0
Wow; I didn't think collages were that complicated to explain. A fascinating read by a brilliant mind that doesn't dumb down his thoughts at all. Really lucky I've been re-reading philosophy and have a good vocabulary and a decent handle on art/architecture/architects. Picked this book up when I was done a drafting program because I felt like I had no idea what architecture was. This didn't help much but was a challenging read for the sake of it.
A review in the style of Colin Rowe
The dude says “which” to carry on his sentences and paragraphs, which means I started to play a game where I spot the word “which”, which took me out of his arguments some of the time, which meant i had to go back and re-read whole pages, which gave this tome the illusion of a literal literary “witch hunt”, which -to my mind- made his arguments seem thin and rambling, which meant I had to go back and re-read for the 3rd time, which made reading this book a slow process.
Not sure who the intended audience for this book is? Graduate students in Urban Planning? Kids in the 5th grade looking for words that might come up in a spelling bee?
I don't think it is self-indulgent - this is actually how the authors think and they are simply that focused on this one area.
A review in the style of Colin Rowe
The dude says “which” to carry on his sentences and paragraphs, which means I started to play a game where I spot the word “which”, which took me out of his arguments some of the time, which meant i had to go back and re-read whole pages, which gave this tome the illusion of a literal literary “witch hunt”, which -to my mind- made his arguments seem thin and rambling, which meant I had to go back and re-read for the 3rd time, which made reading this book a slow process.
Not sure who the intended audience for this book is? Graduate students in Urban Planning? Kids in the 5th grade looking for words that might come up in a spelling bee?
I don't think it is self-indulgent - this is actually how the authors think and they are simply that focused on this one area.
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