Archinect - News 2024-05-07T04:37:56-04:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/9803786/aj-writing-prize-alan-berman-on-what-makes-good-architectural-writing AJ Writing Prize: Alan Berman on what makes good architectural writing Paul Petrunia 2011-06-13T17:33:17-04:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/pz/pzp427zbc12z2tsc.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Historians today don&rsquo;t do history, but historiography. Each aims to better the last in range of content and extremes of references, in language increasingly esoteric and dense: a babble of self referential writing that addresses only others in the lodge. Architectural writing, prone to fashion like all else in the design professions, has followed.</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><head><meta></head></html>