This book is a figurative amendment to the index on the practice of architecture. It poses as a guide to an alternate practice of architecture, the anthological method. This methodology accounts for the recently unmeasurable aspects of a project, its apparently irrational data, and its irrelevant (until proven otherwise) affiliations. The issue with current architectural practice is that there is mere awareness of a subject rather than understanding (be it a material, process, end user etc.). This divergence arose in defining, formalising, and ultimately unquestioning the lens with which we regard subjects. Understanding enables architects to identify issues which are not immediately obvious, and by retaining this formal and defined lens these kinds of issues can go unnoticed. Therefore, a methodology that provides an informal and undefined lens (in harmony with the defined one) may be the first step towards noticing these inapparent issues. The anthological methodology consists of three major parts: Acquisition of data on the subject, reticulation of said data, and expounding the data by explaining and interpreting the data, its attributes, and connections to other subjects. Each part will be presented in more detail in the following chapter.
A GOOD SOLID SENSE OF MORTALITY; What bread is made of An Anthology of Material by Montage of Miscellany and the Initiation of The Anthologist Architect, by Tara McKenna
