Tag Archives: Aesthetics

Notes On Castlerigg Stone Circle & Form Without Function

Posted on July 26, 2015 by raspurr

What clashes here of wills gen wonts, oystrygods gaggin fishy-gods! Brékkek Kékkek Kékkek Kékkek! Kóax Kóax Kóax! Ualu Ualu Ualu! Quaouauh! Where the Baddelaries partisans are still out to mathmaster Malachus Micgranes and the Verdons catapelting the camibalistics out of … Continue reading →

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Destruction and Reconstruction: Architecture and a Longing for the Past

Posted on September 1, 2014 by raspurr

The landscape wrought by the mechanistic slaughter of the First World War has often been described as ‘lunar’: pockmarked by craters, scarred by erratically zig-zagging trenches, devoid of life – devoid even of the possibility of life. The only difference between … Continue reading →

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The Royal Pavilion: Aesthetics & Oppression

Posted on July 16, 2014 by raspurr

It is almost impossible to write about the architecture of Brighton without going into some detail on the subject of the Royal Pavilion. It is both a sort of monument to the studied hedonism of Regency dandyism, and at the same … Continue reading →

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The Spectral Beauty of the West Pier

Posted on April 8, 2014 by raspurr

Anyone with even a faint knowledge of Brighton will probably be aware of the rusting hulk crouched defeatedly just off the shore of Brighton beach known as the West Pier. Once a grand Victorian pier on the same scale as its … Continue reading →

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