design reflux. vol 01 Chaos & Creative Process
design reflux. vol 02 Parapets and Prejudice
Wowee… I had to put that into it’s own volume or we wouldn’t have escaped that story, and come to think of it let’s continue that trend just in case… I’ll re visit it again one day. Not today though.
Today we tell a new tale. A tale so old and so new, that reading it over again could make you spew.
Where the floor is not for feet. The shape dictates the taste. The place displace the base & the top is made of rock (sometimes).
When you wish you could get in the zone but there’s always something over, the press preaching lost ozone but the streets are “rari’s and rover’s”.
The trees are just for decoration, the housing an approximation. And you’re left asking yourself, where you stand in this equation.
I didn’t really want to make this story rhyme, but I can add time and premise, slug and lettuce, footy and tennis! But it all still ends up being
Parapets &
Prejudice.
Christmas 2026
NRZ C1Z MUZ HO'S & DDO'S
"Architecture and architectural freedom are above all a social issue that must be seen from inside a political structure, not from outside it." - Lina Bo Bardi
Now before you think I'm here to perpetuate hatred and how shitty my city is, I want to premise this as the opposite. Although we now build from spreadsheets and continue to sprawl and toil, the reason I still love my city was always in it's composite.
Our heritage linked to the blood of our past our developed buildings made of plaster cast, and since 2020 our flags? Half mast.
From growing up in my hometown and losing love in it. To watching the elderly die online and getting burned in it. We lost the music, closed the shows and lost so much time yearning for our woes. They turned the NRZ against itself then put the C1Z on the shelf and don't even get me started on the MUZ... hold up I have to pee. (sorry)
We're back open now, and it looks like there's no sign of stopping. Our DDO's promising peaches and cream but with a small nominal fee for the topping.
We welcome and acknowledge our Country but forget how we came to it and regardless of who we vote for they'll still try and slap a rail line through it.
The reality is, aside from my little rhyme on the Victorian municipal and private sector. The true solution won't come from chaos or order, it will come from love and nectar.
Regardless of weather you're board of the skin of your building being made of bluestone, brick or stucco. Or your one bedroom flat breathes worse than a smoker on their "smoko".
If you're left, right or the beak in between. Or you cant pick out what shade of grey your interior should be.
As the extruded intrusions on your once sky filled neighborhood start to cast their place, and the skin of your heritage facade starts to wrinkle in your face. Know you're not alone in this endeavor and I will even do you one better... I promise to draw for you again one day, especially when you run out of cheddar.
I just wanted to talk to you first and write you this love letter.
PEGENTRIFICATION & MAKING CENTS OFF CENSUS
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