This post is to direct your attention to a pair of blog posts that provide a survey of couch cushion architecture, as well as critical discourse.

Build Blog, Post 1
Build Blog, Post 2

I hope you’ll find them amusing as well. I imagine that a lot of giggling went on while these were being written. An excerpt:

An ambitious architectural statement, this structure takes its design queues from middle-east cave dwellings. The calculated addition of bold colors and rich textures softens the eye and puts one at ease despite the unknown variables in its structural system. Grade: B

Of course the writing is absurd, given its subject. But sometimes I feel the same way about real art criticism…