The hero shot is the bane of good architecture. Form follows photos. It s a manifestation of container over contained: the exterior, not the internal. It should be space, light, use, quality. Those are the things that make architecture. I rail against the hero shot’s ubiquity, and architects’ obsession with it.
For a few weeks every year, a book reviewer’s coffee table doubles as the most beautiful bookshelf in the world as the books stack up. Writing an article about gift