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The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us. --- Paul Valery, 1895


  • ARCHITECTURAL COMPOSITION/ THE POLITICS OF REGIMENTATION (1970)
  • HYPERBOLICSYLLABICSESQUIDALLYMYSTIC TAILOR (1971)~
  • IL PARADIGMA PROIBITO:  INSPIRATION AND THE AVANTE-GUARDE (1973)~
  • GNOSIS, THE BARDO, AND THE MILAN CATHEDRAL (1974)*
  • NEGATION OF MEANING IN THE VISUAL ARTS (1974)*
  • PSYCHOANALYSIS OF FREEHAND CURVES (1975)*
  • CONATIVE SIGNS IN THE ARCHITECURE OF HANS SCHAROUN (1975)*
  • ON LINES (1976)~
  • ON SHAPES-- THE APPARENT AUTOCRACY OF EUCLIDIAN/PYTHAGOREAN ICONOLOGY  (1977)~ 
  • POETIC CONSTRUCTS AND THE LANGUAGE OFARCHITECTURE (1978)~
  • THE BLOOMING OF SPACE AND THE THEORIES OF PROPORTIONS (1982)~
  • ARCHITECTURAL RHYTHMS NOT FOR ALL (1983)*
  • THE SIGNIFICANT TRACE: LINES AND MEANING IN ARCHITECTURE (1985)*
  • THE TYRANNY OF THE LINE AND THE SPACE IT INFORMS (1987)*
  • THE WORKING DRAWING: THE SEMIOTIC OF GRACE (1987)
  • THE POETICS OF RISE AND RUN OF SPACE: READING  CORMIER'S SUPREME COURT OF CANADA BUILDING (1988)*
  • BRAMANTE: THE COMPLETE CELEBRATION OF BEAUTY (1992)~
  • THE "METAPHORICAL": THE CONSTRICTION OF CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURAL THOUGHT (1992)*
  • ARCHITETTURA EVICTED/OUR DEVELOPER AS FLAT-MATE (1992)*
  • SYMMETRY/BEAT (1992)*
  • VISUAL TENSION AND DYNAMIC BALLANCE: LOVE IN THE EYE (1992)*
  • THE MOST BEAUTIFUL HOUSE IN THE WORLD: BACHELARD, BRUNO, PALLADIO (1993)~
  • GIORDANO BRUNO AND THE THEORY OF THRESHOLDS (1993)*
  •  RHETORICAL LANDSCAPING FROM DANIELE BARBARO TO ROBERT GRAVES (1993)*
  • DYNAMIC PROFILES: DELINEATING APPERCEPTIONS  IN THE THIRD DIMENSION (1993)~
  • THE TOWER OF WINDS AND AEOLEUS' CAVE:  EXEGESIS OF VITRUVIAN POETICS ( 1994)
  • COLOUR: THE MOMENTARY INHABITATION OF THE REAL  (1996)*
  • IL PORTONE:  ARCHITECTURE'S AESTHETIC MORPHOLOGY (1997)
  • ARCHITETTURE ANTICHE: REIFICATION OF FANCY (1997)*
  • GRAPHITE, INK, ELECTRON: THE MATURATION OF THE ARCHITECT'S HAND (1998)*
  • LONELINESS OF THE HYPOTENUSE; POPULARITY OF THE  EVOLUTE (1998)*
  • IL GEOMETRA: IDEALITY IN THE SANITORIUM OF THE REAL (1999)~
  • TRANSMETAMORPHOSIS OF CIRCINUS: STUDIES IN DEEP-TECH (1999)*
  • ON LINES AND ARCHITECTURE (1999)~
  • THE FLACID LINE: MINIMALISM & CONTEMPORARY CANADIAN ARCHITECTURE (1999)*
  • SYNDERESIS AND THE HINTONBURG ARCHIPELAGO (2000)*
  • PER BARCHEGIAR SUL MUSON:  LIBRO SEGRETO DELLA MOTIVAZIONE ARTISTICA (2000)
    • IL PARADIGMA OFFUSCATO: THE SECULARIZATION OF AESTHETICS (2000)
    • PENELOPE: THE CRISIS OF CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURAL PRACTICE (2000)
    • ARIADNE'S LOOM: WRITINGS OF ALIAS ARTISTA (2000)
    • THE BOW: AN UPANISHAD FOR THE EVERDAY ARCHITECT (2000)
    • SEMELE: ARTISTIC DETACHMENT (2000)
    • BEING IN NUMBER: THE ARCHITECTURAL TRANS-AVANTE-GUARDE (2000)
    • ZOEMETRY: THE LOOM OF ARCHITECTURE
  • A SPARROW DESCENDS INTO A RHOMBIC GARDEN:  RETHINKING,IN VERBIS, IN HERBIS, IN LAPIDIBUS, LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE IN THE INNER-CITY  (2001)~
  • AESTHETIC NIHILISM AND THE NARRATIVE PAINTINGS OF JANA CHARRON (2001)* 
  • HODIERN WRITINGS OF STONE: CARLO MADERNO/LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE (2002)~
  • PSYCHOANALYTICAL UNDERSTANDING OF THE ANTAGONISM BETWEEN THE HANDRAIL AND THE STEP AND THE MEDIATIVE PRESENCE OF THE BALUSTER: A CONCISE HISTORY OF ITS ALLEGORY AND ITS REPRESENTATION IN THE ARTS (2002)
  • CONCINNITAS DECEDERE URBIS - THE ARCHITECTONIC SEDATIVE AND ALBERTINIAN BUCOLICS: ESCAPE FROM CITY-PRISON (2002)*
  • EKISTICAL ANTIANGIOGENESIS: THE ALCHEMICAL WEDDING OF URBAN PLANNING WITH URBAN DESIGN (2002)*
  • DE CIVITATE DEI & LEVIATHAN: THE HUMAN ARCHITECTURAL CONDITION VERSUS  THE FORGINGS OF OTTAWA'S NEW OFFICIAL PLAN (2002)*
  • PASSIVELY DIVINING THE PHENOMENON OF THE ALFA ROMEO, THE OMEGA CHRONOGRAPH AFTER A TALL HARD CHARDONNAY IN A GARDEN IN THE HODOLOGICALLY UNFOLDED METROPOLITAN MILIEU: A POST BOLLNOWAN EXEGESIS OF ARCHITECTURAL BLISS (2002)
  • "STASIS" IN MORPHOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION OF ROCOCO ARCHITECTURE(~2002)
  • IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER, THE SON, AND THE TUTELARY SPIRIT...A WOLD WITHOUT ART... AMEN (*2007)
  • FILARETE & THE PRANCING STALION: THE PRACTISE OF ARCHITECTURE (*2010)
  • DIFUSION: LYMP SYMBIOSIS IN CROSS-DISCIPINED INTERACTIONS (~ 2010)
  • "DELIRIOUS PROFESSIONS, UPDATE" ... ADDENDUM TO P. VALERY'S CATEGORY (*2010)
  • THE SLIVERED SPLITER HANDLE: OF ARCHITECTS AND OF ARCHITECTS (2010)
  • MARIO GALVAGNI & "ECOLOGY OF FORM", ITS SIGNIFICANCE IN THE PLASTIC ARTS AND ARCHITECTURAL COMPOSITION (~2011)
 
 


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