alert: meta-blog post // in love of BLDG BLOG

"It’s precisely the broad-based, multidisciplinary nature of blogging that makes the whole thing worthwhile—the idea that any field of inquiry is only one link away. That’s hugely invigorating. It’s why I like blogging, to be honest, as opposed to writing academic articles or even jotting things down in my own notebook somewhere, and it’s something that deserves to be more widely appreciated. Blogging precisely allows for these links and connections between fields and disciplines to be pushed right up to the foreground, and that’s an amazing thing. We won’t always live in a time where writers have this ability to bring wildly different fields together with such technical ease and breadth of audience outreach.

In any case, with blogging, I’m basically just trying to tie a huge range of things back to the field of architecture. At the end of the day, that’s all it is. To show, for example, that constructing a skyscraper can have plate tectonic implications—the famous example of Taipei 101, one of the world’s tallest buildings and a structure so heavy it supposedly cracked open an otherwise dormant faultline—or to explore the role that 3D printers might someday play not only in the future of the construction industry but in building human settlements on Mars or the moon. Or to re-read the novels of Franz Kafka or Don DeLillo from an architectural perspective, looking at how buildings can establish a mood often more effectively than things like characterization."

says BLDG BLOG author Geoff Manaugh. http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/clasticdetritus
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