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How Architecture Learned To Speculate

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This book features seven different crazy-covers, which are attached as postcards with a rubber ring. I bought the one with rainbow-house at [...]
I really love the layout and the cover. I think the design concept was to make a book without a cover, since it begins with contents after removing the postcards.

I am a fan of self-publications and i can say that, it is for now one of my favorites. As a designer i think this speculative theory not only concerns architecture, but also all other design fields dealing with strategic acting. They say "it is strategy that mediates between work and world, between intention and attention and that decides on success or failure of any effort."
To transfer the economic term of speculation, as strategic acting, into the field of culture is somehow mean, but, at the same time, plausible, as it is referred to fashion: modern culture is 'fashionable', that is why i like it...

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