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Means to a beginning
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ISBN 978-94-93329-58-4
Price € 37.50
Author & compilation Mark Pimlott
Design SJG / Joost Grootens, Julie da Silva Lenoir
Number of pages 328
Book size 17 x 24 cm
Printer t.b.d.
Binding softcover
Language English
Release date Fall/Winter 2025
Publisher Jap Sam Books
Made possible with the support of the TU Delft.
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Means to a beginning considers the attitude of the architect in beginning a work. The notion of beginning, or finding the means to a beginning, is contingent upon that which presents itself to the architect upon a first encounter. Examinations of urban conditions reveal ideologies and intentions directed towards shaping subjectivities. They also reveal the cultural specificity of appearances, which, as outward manifestations of intent, are utterances, like those of language: imperfect representations of ideas. The central part of the work concerns the approach to the artefact, and proposes a reconciliation between phenomenology and material culture, through consideration of the presence of representation. Pimlott contends that appearances are representation’s threshold, which, through acute attention, yield access to their essential nature, and to the real. The meeting with the real demands the architect’s suspension of an impulse to projection, replacing it with something closer to empathy.
Mark Pimlott (Montréal, Canada, 1958) is an artist, designer, writer, and teacher. He was visiting Professor, then assistant professor of architectural design at TU Delft from 2002-2025. He is the author of the following books published by Jap Sam Books Without and within: essays on territory and the interior (2007); In passing: Mark Pimlott photographs (2010); The Public Interior as Idea and Project (2016); and A walk from here to an other (2024), published by Thymos books. His practice incorporates photography, installation, permanent art works for public places, and architectural design. He lives and works in The Hague, the Netherlands.
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Means to a beginning
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Architectuur / Theorie / Verwacht / Stedenbouw
ISBN 978-94-93329-58-4
Price € 37.50
Author & compilation Mark Pimlott
Design SJG / Joost Grootens, Julie da Silva Lenoir
Number of pages 328
Book size 17 x 24 cm
Printer t.b.d.
Binding softcover
Language English
Release date Fall/Winter 2025
Publisher Jap Sam Books
Made possible with the support of the TU Delft.
Means to a beginning considers the attitude of the architect in beginning a work. The notion of beginning, or finding the means to a beginning, is contingent upon that which presents itself to the architect upon a first encounter. Examinations of urban conditions reveal ideologies and intentions directed towards shaping subjectivities. They also reveal the cultural specificity of appearances, which, as outward manifestations of intent, are utterances, like those of language: imperfect representations of ideas. The central part of the work concerns the approach to the artefact, and proposes a reconciliation between phenomenology and material culture, through consideration of the presence of representation. Pimlott contends that appearances are representation’s threshold, which, through acute attention, yield access to their essential nature, and to the real. The meeting with the real demands the architect’s suspension of an impulse to projection, replacing it with something closer to empathy.
Mark Pimlott (Montréal, Canada, 1958) is an artist, designer, writer, and teacher. He was visiting Professor, then assistant professor of architectural design at TU Delft from 2002-2025. He is the author of the following books published by Jap Sam Books Without and within: essays on territory and the interior (2007); In passing: Mark Pimlott photographs (2010); The Public Interior as Idea and Project (2016); and A walk from here to an other (2024), published by Thymos books. His practice incorporates photography, installation, permanent art works for public places, and architectural design. He lives and works in The Hague, the Netherlands.
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