January 2011
15 posts
“Designers become machine nerds. Machines define what you can do.”
– William Gibson, Zero History
“My experience,” said an old gentleman to me, “has been that I could never...”
– Philip Gilbert Hamerton, The Quest of Happiness, 1897
“Algorithms are for people who don’t know how to buy RAM.”
– Clay Shirky
Street Artist Banksy to Be Unmasked Via eBay... →
Wikipedia: Charrette →
Origins of the term “charrette”
Thought to originate from the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in the 19th century, the word charrette is from the French for “cart” or “chariot.”
It was not unusual for student architects to continue working furiously, at the last minute, on the illustrations for their design presentations, even while riding in the school cart...
