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The Island of Vessels (Communicating Vessels) is a huge chunking engine, a communicating field, full of witchery and sexuality. Its neurotic things are Pataphysically enabled and surrealistically primed.
The Island of Vessels (Communicating Vessels) is a huge chunking engine, a communicating field, full of witchery and sexuality. Its neurotic things are Pataphysically enabled and surrealistically primed. The island’s geography is cyborgian and always teetering on the edge of chaos. Its groves and glades are haunted by ghosts, some impish like Alfred Jarry, some nude on staircases, some with Dalinian moustaches and some muttering about defecating toads.
On the island lives a Professor- a mad man, an idiot savant or a genius- perhaps all three. The Professor is attempting to work out the shock of the new, its architectures and its desiring poetics. The Professor likes his things, they tell him where he’s been and where he is. He dwells in this world and builds in it everyday- without fail. He works at the intersection of art, architecture and science. He uses desire as a welding torch and the pen as a scalpel. Like Duchamp’s Handler of Gravity, he likes to surf on precarious and fleeting equilibriums. He is a spiral architect, swerving from idea to idea on a silver machine. He does nothing if not break the house rules.
Neil Spiller
Neil Spiller is Editor of AD, previously he was Hawksmoor Chair of Architecture and Landscape and Deputy Pro Vice-Chancellor of the University of Greenwich, London prior to this he was Dean of the School of Architecture, Design and Construction and Professor of Architecture and Digital Theory. Before this he was Vice-Dean and Graduate Director of Design at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London.
His books include Cyberreader: Critical Writings of the Digital Era (2002), Digital Dreams-The Architecture of the new Alchemic Technologies (1998), Visionary Architecture – Blueprints of the Modern Imagination (2006) and Surrealism and Architecture- A Blistering Romance (2016). His architectural design work has been published and exhibited on many occasions worldwide, his drawings are held in many international collections. He is an internationally renowned visionary architect and his work has a remarkable graphic dexterity. Spiller is also recognised internationally for his paradigm shifting contribution to architectural discourse, research / experiment and teaching.
