Category Archives: Sunday Lens

As a Lens causes light to converge or diverge, so critical writing can focus or expand one’s thinking. Sunday Lens provides a mechanism for me to both collect and share pieces of writing on art or design which serve to change the way I think. I’ll try to post a quote every week which I find intriguing, provocative, or maybe even inspirational.

The System of Objects

Consider a nondescript, light, foldable table or a bed without legs, frame or canopy – an absolute cipher of a bed, one might say: all such objects, with their ‘pure’ outlines, no longer resemble even what they are; they have

The System of Objects

Consider a nondescript, light, foldable table or a bed without legs, frame or canopy – an absolute cipher of a bed, one might say: all such objects, with their ‘pure’ outlines, no longer resemble even what they are; they have

Le virus de la pneumanie

This week’s Lens focuses on the reactionary and the ephemeral via an excerpt from C & P Fiell’s introduction to their fantastic monograph ‘Plastic Dreams: Synthetic Visions in Design’.

Le virus de la pneumanie

This week’s Lens focuses on the reactionary and the ephemeral via an excerpt from C & P Fiell’s introduction to their fantastic monograph ‘Plastic Dreams: Synthetic Visions in Design’.

Entropy Made Visible

This from Robert Smithson’s Interview with Alison Sky, about two months before the artist’s death in 1973. One wonders what Smithson would have made of the internet.

Entropy Made Visible

This from Robert Smithson’s Interview with Alison Sky, about two months before the artist’s death in 1973. One wonders what Smithson would have made of the internet.

Le Modulor

From the preamble to Le Corbusier’s The Modulor, circa 1954 -

“Nothing that is built, constructed, divided into lengths, widths or volumes, has yet enjoyed the advantage of a measure equivalent to that possessed by music…”

Le Modulor

From the preamble to Le Corbusier’s The Modulor, circa 1954 -

“Nothing that is built, constructed, divided into lengths, widths or volumes, has yet enjoyed the advantage of a measure equivalent to that possessed by music…”