INSIGNIFICANCE

INSIGNIFICANCE     

AUTOR: GORDON SHRIGLEY      
EDITORA: EDITION SOLITUDE          

Insignificance is the first ever detailed study of the language of linear
representation within the practice of architectural design.
The title offers a detailed analysis of the ideological and physical basis of line through
the study of a small selection of drawings by the architects, Hans Schmidt and Paul Artaria,
Walter Gropius, Max Bill and Riegler and Riewe
This work was reviewed by Prof. Richard Stamp (Bath Spa University College), in
the Journal of Visual Culture in 2003, in which the following was noted:
“What convinces in Shrigley’s argument is the simple and vital observation
that the line has little or no connection to the materiality of the ‘object’ it
denotes or projects.”
“Both Nietsche and Shrigley articulate the desire for a practice exempted
from the need for truth. But just as the Nietsche of 1873 had yet to
formulate a philosophical position that could both bypass and account for
‘the will to truth’, so the final lines of Insignificance merely open onto this desire –
the visionary gesture can only imagine for itself an escape route from the
contradictions of representation, it cannot yet think it.”