Mechudzu: New Rhetorics for Architecture

1. Front Matter

   Pages 1-3

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2. o3 TH THeoreti[cal]

   • Bryan Cantley

   Pages 4-39

3. o2 GR GRaphi[cal]

   • Bryan Cantley

   Pages 40-83

4. o1 EC EConomi[cal]

   • Bryan Cantley

   Pages 84-105

5. o0 AL ALchemi[cal]

   • Bryan Cantley

   Pages 106-115

6. Back Matter

   Pages 116-118

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Mechudzu is a book which represents questions, not answers. The work of Bryan Cantley, and his firm, Form:uLA, based in Los Angeles, is intended to be confounding – a practice that is a theory, a theory of practice, practice as theory. Cantley’s work is part of the permanent collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Other exhibits of note include a featured exhibition at the Form Zero Bookstore / Gallery in Los Angeles and solo exhibitions “Enantiomorph Inversion Factor” at the Architecture Gallery at Cal Poly Pomona and “Wool and H2O” at the UCLA School of Architecture. This book documents Cantley’s work, lavishly illustrated and combined with congenial essays by acknowledged experts as there are Aaron Betsky, Dora Epstein Jones, Ruth Keffer, Wes Jones + Doug Jackson and Neil Spiller.

• Experimental Architecture
• Lafranchi, Guy
• RIEA

Bryan W. Cantley is Professor of design theory and architecture. He lectures at the CSUF, SCI-ARC and the Woodbury University. His work is presented at a number of books on digital design as well as shown in many exhibition on experimental architecture. Cantley attempts to blur the undefined zone between art and architecture, considering space and its representation to be the true medium of the architect.

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