Genesis is a good place to start

I was thinking about what to call this blog just a moment ago, so i consulted the internet for help. Foolish. Names are important, i get that. In fact, that was one of the first things i wanted to write about in this blog (but not yet). What then, do i come across as i'm searching for beautiful words that people will use when TELLING THEIR FRIENDS about this blog? A post from the xkcd forums (which, i might add, is an excellent webcomic).

Allow me to regurgitate the words of AKADriver on Tue Dec 04, 2007, whom i have never met.

I've got a few hypotheses.

In a low-context culture like that shared by English-speaking Westerners, it's considered a requirement to be polysyllabic to succinctly convey any sort of richness of meaning. The longer a word is, the more nuanced its meaning becomes.

Historically, in English, longer words of Latin and Greek origin were considered more prestigious among literati. A lot of modern English vocabulary, including all those fussy SAT words, was built in the 16th and 17th century because of this trend.

A word that's used infrequently lends itself to aesthetic study, because you're less apt to examine it based on its meaning.

For fun, try rephrasing that second sentence with only the vocabulary of Simple English.

Just to play devil's advocate, words with strong beauty associations can sound beautiful too, even if they're short -- like love, or rose.

I couldn't help but shake my head in frustration and groan upon seeing that. It is the archetypal argument of sign/signifier/signified which i have heard so many times in my Design Fundamentals classes. But like i said, that's not what i wanted to talk about in this first blog.

I wanted to set forth a list of a few topics for later discourse. I encourage any and all readers to suggest more.

(The Big Ones)
Context
Sustainability
Homogeneity
Materials

(A Few Recurring Topics)
Architects as People
Students as Architects
Pedagogy (Resistance)
The Vernacular and the Monumental
The Future of Architecture vs. The Reality of Architecture

(Context)
Architecture as related to other professions, such as
-Psychology
-Philosophy
-Science & Math
-Music
-Art
-Education
-Health
-Recreation
-Commerce

And within all this i hope to make a blog that you enjoy reading, because that's the point of putting my opinions out into the public realm, right?