Maurice Amiel, M. Arch. (U.C. Berkeley) is retired professor of Environmental Design at the School of Design, University of Quebec at Montreal, where he was involved mainly in environment-behaviour teaching and applied research projects.
In order to promote environmental awareness, he has turned after retiring to documenting and writing about various physical and human agents contributing to a sense of self, place and sociability.
In the Oct 24th issue of LENSCRATCH the coverage of the Cuban work of photographer Susan Bank, and its feature image*, struck me by how her work... Read more →
From backyard to street fronting My recent move took me from a backyard fronting apartment to a street fronting one; from a green space shared by... Read more →
The accidental emoticon off the reflecting surface of a porcelain vase, actually the distorted reflection of a linear light fixture, is one type of... Read more →
Liberating strangeness Strangeness is not something we usually go about making, although as the feature image shows, someone must have found the... Read more →
Deconstructing the Red What I mean is that the color red has two basic dimensions: the physiological one consisting of a perceptual effect of... Read more →
The late Philip Thiel, my architecture school mentor, would have us modulate a light source inside a cardboard box modulator to show us the... Read more →
Suite Suite as a musical genre, suite as in “donner suite” i.e. follow up, suite as open-ended enterprise, on CW or elsewhere. Suite as in... Read more →
The liberated image These four images were taken by a roving eye and a liberated image attitude in complete and relative transgression of... Read more →
I would call it the first real spring day. After a night shower, the sun came out and dried the balcony enough for me to join my neighbor, I with... Read more →
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