Deconstructive Architecture as Writing
Since I'm cleaning out unpublished work, I've also thrown this up to my website: a chapter on
deconstructive architecture, interface design, and writing [3 MB MS Word .doc] that was originally intended for
Datacloud (the book), but which was so heavily revised (and much of it simply replaced with other material) that it's not recognizable in the book version.
It was actually one of the earliest chapters I wrote for the book, but it was so early that the overall direction of the book had shifted by the time I wrote the other chapters, and it didn't really fit. And, to my mind, the whole chapter was building up to some earth-shattering pronouncements that it never really delivered, I had to cut most of it. (The reviewers of the manuscript agreed as well; one liked the chapter enough to say it was the most important in the manuscript, and I should revise the rest of the manuscript to deliver on what the chapter was promising; the other reviewer, understandably, didn't understand the point of the chapter since everything else in the manuscript was directed to slightly different intentions. The hardest part of revising is knowing when to cut bait.)
Posted by johndan at November 28, 2004 12:19 AM
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