Editor's Picks #444

2016-04-13T17:48:00-04:00

ICYMI Amelia Taylor-Hochberg published a 3 part interview with Coy Howard, by students in John Southern's “Architectural Media and Publishing” Cultural Studies seminar at SCI-Arc. Ewa Lenart was impressed "Great Work and greatly inspiring teacher!"

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Coy Howard book, The Thickening of Time, reviewed by Craig Hodgetts

2015-05-20T16:40:00-04:00

Those images, wrought by a wicked mash-up of the hand, the eye, and the mouse, defy any effort to reverse-engineer their creation. Dot for dot and pixel for pixel they proclaim their origin as documentary evidence. Yet by their implausible point of view, their visceral texture, and their mini-Wagnerian scale, they are more painterly than Maya-ish, far more lavish than Rhino.

A long time colleague Craig Hodgetts reviews Coy Howard's newly printed book 'The Thickening of Time' for Architect's Newspaper.

Being familiar with Coy Howard's work, Hodgett's words describe the essence of the enigmatic images and the persona well. I'd just say poetry of the images is verbatim with Coy's architecture. As his built works are rare gems, Coy is a legend capable of thickening time to process exceptional architecture, meticulously considered.

McCafferty House in San Pedro, CA, 1979

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Editor's Picks #444

Coy Howard book, The Thickening of Time, reviewed by Craig Hodgetts