A built viewpoint is an argument about what matters in a landscape. Somebody chose the position, the height and the direction, and everybody who stands there afterwards sees what they…
The useful habit at any old doorway is to look at the threshold and the hinges before the door itself, because those two features carry most of the information. Here…
The useful thing to look at in any harbour is the wall - which direction it faces, how high it stands and where the entrance is - because that tells…
Look at any vernacular building and the roof tells you the weather before anybody mentions it. Here are eleven of the things a roof is arguing with.
1. The Steep…
The useful habit when standing in an unfamiliar square is to look at what faces onto it, because the buildings around the edge record who wanted the space and what…
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There is a wall in Cusco that tourists queue to photograph because of one stone in it, which has twelve angles and fits its neighbours on every one of…