This blog is intended to be a continuously evolving archive and record of my work as part of the Rationalist Traces M.Arch unit at the University of Dundee. Hopefully over time a coherent theme will become evident in the work posted and by the end of the year this blog will serve as an artefact in itself, showing a clear narrative and iteration in my year's work (fingers crossed). -- Gregor Tait --

Saturday 6 November 2010

Artefact

(noun)
1. An object made by man, especially with a view to subsequent use.
2. Characteristic of an particuar time or cultural stage.
3. A feature that is not naturally present but is a product of an extrinsic agent.


In a thesis based around the study of what Aldo Rossi called Urban Artefacts it is necessary to provide an exact definition of the term.