COLOPHON
MODI OPERANDI #09
This publication was initiated and developed by the Borders&Territories research group and financially supported by the Faculty of Architecture (Delft University of Technology) and the Border Conditions Foundation.
PROJECT
Surfaces at Large and The Meanness of Measure by Christopher Clarkson
AUTHORS Christopher Clarkson
EDITOR Negar Sanaan Bensi
EDITORIAL BOARD Negar Sanaan Bensi, Stefano Milani and Marc Schoonderbeek
INVOLVED EDUCATIONAL STAFF Negar Sanaan Bensi, Oscar Rommens and Pierre Jennen
LAYOUT & DESIGN
www.josephplateau.nl
Joseph plateau
TECHNICAL REALISATION
www.nlware.com
NLWare
UseCUE
PUBLISHER Faculty of Architecture, Delft University of Technology
IMAGE, PHOTO AND MAP CREDITS
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
With many thanks to my tutors: Negar Sanaan Bensi, Pierre Jennen, and Oscar Rommens for their guidance, patience, and their trust in the development of this project. It is owing to their perseverance and critical inquiry that the project has reached the level of theoretical and architectural maturity that it now has, as well as the faith and courage they placed in me as a designer and researcher to be able to freely explore experimental methodologies and theoretical components presented here. I have benefited from their council and supervision tremendously, and continue to do so.
Additionally, I would be remiss if I did not extend my gratitude to the rest of the Borders and Territories Chair: Marc Schoonderbeek, Stefano Milani, and Filip Geerts – I have benefited immensely from their additional guidance and conversations, the results and comments of which I still benefit and learn from to this day.
Finally, many thanks to those friends and family who have loudly encouraged and supported the creation of this project, as well as to those who have quietly withheld their reservations. Perhaps most especially, thanks to those who unashamedly and with great honesty voiced their concerns – be they for the project or for my own sake.
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