Reading Design is an online archive of critical writing about design, that claims it ‘embraces the whole of design, from architecture and urbanism to product, fashion, graphics and beyond and the texts featured date from the nineteenth century up to the present moment’, while readers can get a taste of the style with architect Álvaro Siza exploring how ‘Living in a house, in a real house, is a full time job’!
Reading Design writes:
Reading Design is not a magazine or a journal and many or most of the texts here will have been published before. They might be papers, transcriptions of lectures, articles, essays, academic texts, photo essays, sketches or blog posts but the aim is to collate these texts in one place to build a resource which we hope will become invaluable to designers, academics, researchers, professionals and all those with any interest in design at all. It is a library of design which we hope is able to use the enormous capacity of the internet in a way in which it is not currently being used.
Reading Design is a non-profit making venture aiming to make pivotal texts available to all and to provoke, delight, enlighten, inspire, inform and occasionally infuriate. Every effort has been made to trace authors and copyright holders and obtain all permissions. If you would like to bring any copyright issues to our attention please contact us…
… ‘Living in a house, in a real house,’ writes Álvaro Siza, ‘is a full time job’. The architect presents the maintenance of a house as an epic, heroic task against entropy and dust. It is a beautiful, wry look at the physical realities of dwelling, a counterpoint to the unreality and abstraction of the architect’s drawing.
Read the article ‘Living in a House’ by Alvaro Siza
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