This is how we talk when we talk about architecture
Architects struggle to drop the jargon and engage the public. Richard Gatti finds the addition of hard liquor helps
The writer and broadcaster Tom Dyckhoff recently started a furious Twitter debate by suggesting that architects speak in deliberately obfuscatory language.
The architecture practice / restaurateur Fourth Space’s contribution to the conversation is to invite everyone to their Venetian restaurant, Ombra in Hackney, add a few provocative thinkers from within and without the profession, throw in a free drink (a negroni, a mere 26% ABV) and see what happens.
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