Figuration and Continuity in the Work of H.H. Richardson
(Perspecta 24, 1988)
“Richardson clearly exults in . . . ambiguity . . . . He accepts (whether consciously or not) that buildings are both necessarily continuous and necessarily figurative. They are necessarily continuous, because they are part of a physically and temporally continuous world; they are necessarily figurative, because that is how we perceive things and represent them. These necessities may be turned to advantage. In architecture as a continuous thing we may find our home; in architecture as a figurative thing we may find our voice.”
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Susan Ubbelohde
Susan Ubbelohde is an internationally recognized expert on energy use, daylighting, and climate response. She has directed nearly $1 million in funded research for the U.S. Dept. of Energy, the State of Minnesota, the National Science Foundation, the UC Energy Institute, and the California Institute for Energy Efficiency. She is a professor at UC Berkeley and has taught formerly at UC San Diego, Univ. of Minnesota, Florida A & M, Tulane and the Center for Environmental Planning and Technology, Ahmedabad, India. She offers consulting services through her Oakland-based firm, LOISOS + UBBELOHDE ASSOCIATES.
While I do communications consulting myself, I also work frequently with other communications experts, each of whom is better at something than I am. Here are my favorites. Most are Bay Area based, but they’re all totally cosmo. I am also happy to recommend other excellent writers.
Graphic designers with whom I’ve enjoyed working. All are based in the Bay Area, but work beyond it.
Bay Area-based folk who are expert at helping architects and others manage practice and projects.
Some of the architecture and design scholars whose work I particularly enjoy and admire—with emphasis on the Bay Area.