Medicine Balls

I discovered Smoke today. It fell open on an article called Sham City about Paternoster Square - “London’s new architectural theme-park” - which was making me laugh. When I looked at the back and realised it was only £2 (twosquid, blimey!) I thought I’d better buy it. It’s a shame all the pictures are black and white but for 50 pages you can’t grumble can ya guv’nor (People don’t seem to call London ‘The Smoke’ anymore, do they?).

“Architecture cannot escape fashion”

I’m reading The Look of Architecture which makes connections between architecture and clothing that had never occurred to me before. It’s also a bit negative about the failure of photography to capture important aspects of architecture which makes me wonder what the author would think of Tadao Ando: The Colours of Light which also seems to be at the top of my pile at the moment and has some great photographs by Richard Pare.