Eye of the Fish » Listener http://eyeofthefish.org A wide-angle view of architecture, urban design and life in Wellington Fri, 03 Sep 2010 20:22:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 The right to write http://eyeofthefish.org/the-right-to-write/ http://eyeofthefish.org/the-right-to-write/#comments Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:30:15 +0000 Maximus http://eyeofthefish.org/the-right-to-write/ After a lengthy (some might say excruciating) out-pouring about her experience of the ridiculous difficulties of building (home renovations and building consents), Joanne Black has recently decide to public pronounce on two more fascinating aspects of the architectural world.  Firstly, that the building process is too easy for other people (yes the old “Not-in-my-backyard-especially-when-it’s-Thorndon” syndrome), and secondly, the right for architects to describe their projects using language in a way which is at odds with her own journalistic purity.

 
The launch of this discussion began a couple of week’s ago in Black’s regular Listener column (6-12 September 2008).  It…

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