During this formative time, she developed the roots of what one historian has called her âecosocialâ interpretation of the built environment, which considered architecture and the built environment to be an extension and manifestation of human ecology.5 This preference for the social led her to elevate Buckminster Fullerâs ecological utopianism... See more
But I also love the way that buildings are â theyâre these huge structures that we have accepted as the places we go in to get what we need, or to sleep, or to work, or whatever. Theyâre also these huge towering structures. I think of them as if theyâre creatures; theyâre other kinds of beings. Sometimes we donât even touch them. Iâm interested in... See more
All these losses, for me, carry equal weight, precisely because, for Black, research and writing about building held as much transformational potential as design and construction. Indeed, it might be true that, for Black, such a duality did not exist. Perhaps, for him, writing and spatial thinking were one and the same. This is what most excites me... See more