archidose.blogspot.com - 12/28/2008
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Why Do Architects Wear Black? (2009) edited by Cordula Rau Springer Cloth, 228 pages Architects wearing black is a stereotype on par with architects wearing black, plastic-frame spectacles . Most architects don't abide by these fashion recipes, but if somebody outside the profession comes ...
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Why Do Architects Wear Black?
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... a spontaneous answer, so I responded: "Ask the other architects!" That was in 2001, and it is why this small book came to be. I have asked the question at an international level and whenever it seems appropriate ever since. The sometimes amusing and other times programmatic or hair-splitting answers I have received over the last seven years are listed chronologically in this little black volume. Read, and please, don’t ask me why architects wear black! – Cordula Rau, 22. 02. 2008
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