0 Manifesto: A Loose Architecture

MALarch ⟨mə'lαɹk⟩ started as a biweekly journal of criticism. Now it is a daily definition.

Architecture, building and space — a core, not a limit — provide through critique access to abstract knowledge.

Look for meaning everywhere, but find it only when anywhere becomes somewhere. The process of unpacking is the product.

All models are wrong, but some are useful.¹

Reconcile disparities, dichotomies and dialectics into difficult wholes. Two sides of a coin are still a coin that may forever flip.

Contrived from 'malarkey' (itself etymologically obscure),² MALarch resembles mal arch, a Greco-Roman expression for bad architecture.

Honestly, what this boils down to is a need to write, a desire to create. Criticism is among the most economical creative endeavors: where others create new work, critique reuses.

¹ An aphorism attributed to statistician George Box.

² Speculations range from the Irish surname to the Greek malakia, meaning self-indulgent nonsense in more than one way.