Inside, at the entrance to the show itself, the jagged lines are back, but they are accompanied this time by a different phrase, "Contemporary Architecture Comes from Southern California," which is closer to the original subtitle of the show ("Contemporary Architecture from Southern California").
The conference site gives no definition, but if you Google the phrase "innovative architecture," what pops up is a seemingly endless stream of exotic images--rippled rooflines, bulbous walls, spongy towers, the flights of fancy of designers the world over.
Or, as Mr. Fuksas phrased it, "Architecture is interesting, but by itself it means nothing".
The pet phrase of pragmatist architecture, "things in the making," comes from a quote from William James: "What really exists is not things made but things in the making.
They are the coda to a legendary career -- that of Louis H. Sullivan, the turn-of-the-century Chicago architect best known for coining the defining phrase of modern architecture, "Form follows function".
We borrow the phrase "ambient accountability" from architecture to suggest a new way to organize digital financial services.
He became famous as the creator and expounder of "organic architecture," his phrase indicating buildings that harmonize both with their inhabitants and with their environment.
I guess it doesn't have quite the breadth of the epic Taylor Branch trilogy of books on America in the King Years — "Parting the Waters," etc. — but it is inevitably much more than a biography of one man (Marable's nice phrase is "the social architecture of an individual's life").
Her overall phrasing and sense of architecture were more admirable than ever.
From benches you can't actually sit on, to railings that look like the inside of iron maidens, to metal spikes that resemble rows of buttplugs, there's a phrase for these structures – "defensive architecture".
