Mark Rakatansky – Architecture Words 9: Tectonic Acts of Desire and Doubt Smalltime Books in response to their unintentionally

in response to their unintentionally deadpan descriptions

practical acts (the making) and theoretical reflection (the thinking) go hand in hand

The book has been scanned from an original copy and reproduced by risograph - a 21st-century analogue to early-1980s photocopy art

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Mark Rakatansky – Architecture Words 9: Tectonic Acts of Desire and Doubt Smalltime Books in response to their unintentionallyThis collection of a number of key essays by the New York based architect and writer Mark Rakatansky proposes an innovative framework for architecture to enact the complex tectonic dramas of social and culture space. Following its title, the book is arrayed in three sections: Tectonic, Acts of, Desire and Doubt. In each, Rakatansky covers a series of subjects in a writerly voice that varies from the third person narrative of the scholarly essays to