New Page: Architects

Herzog & de Meuron - Residential Tower in Doha, Switzerland (Copyright Herzog & de Meuron)

It is quite a challenge to make the archives of a blog easy to browse. Monthly archives, del.icio.us tags, categories, or… just not organize them at all?

Next to the Representation and Top 10 pages, I first tried to organize the 130 posts (and counting) by theme, to research whether or not ‘nature’ was a big thing in iconography, as Charles Jencks argues/whishes. It proved not to be. But furthermore it was just a big pile of posts. As a metaphor for is disfunctionality the Themes page even developed a fault in its script.

The replacement page organizes the posts in a more traditional way by architect, by oeuvre.

The instant (provisional) statistics that emerge from the new page is a chart with the most iconographic architects. Number one is, not by surprise, the Swiss office of Herzog & de Meuron with 7 objects, followed on second place by the London Foreign Office Architects with 5 objects. The developer/architect Nakheel comes third with their 4 iconographic islands in Dubai. Neutelings Riedijk, OMA, and W.S. Atkins share the fourth place with each 3 objects.

New page: Architects

Herzog & de Meuron - Residential Tower in Doha, Switzerland (Copyright Herzog & de Meuron)

Herzog & de Meuron - Residential Tower in Doha, Switzerland (Copyright Herzog & de Meuron)