Today I got a copy of rain gravity heat cold . It’s a book by the Toronto-based architecture firm superkül and it’s meant to celebrate their first 10 years of practice.
The book itself was put together by Blok Design . Blok has also done a new – yet to be rolled out – identity for superkül . (Definitely worth a click through.)
One thing I wanted to highlight from the foreword of the book (written by Kiel Moe ) is this line: “Great design does not respond to a static sense of context but rather perhaps transforms its flaws into assets and certainly amplifies the potential of site.”
We often talk about contextual architecture. That is, architecture which responds to and is sensitive to its surroundings. But here’s the idea that responding is, in fact, not enough. The ambition should be “amplification of site through design.”
I like that a lot.
If you’d like a copy of the book, it can be found on Amazon , at the University of Toronto bookstore , as well as, I’m sure, other places.