Architecture and Philosophy intersect in these Two Free Exhibition Catalogue Articles -

Weir, S. (2021) “Object-Oriented Ontology and Architectural Darkness"
In: Odyssey, K. Goodwin Ed. Harvest, Sydney, pp.148-151. [link]

Weir, S. (2020) “Object-Oriented Ontology and the Challenge of the Corinthian Capital"
In: Make Sense, K. Goodwin Ed. Harvest, Sydney, pp.114-116. [link]

Architecture and Surrealism intersect in this Free Journal Article -
Weir, S. (2022) “Surrealist Architecture: Dalí’s 1958 Crisalida, San Francisco”
Journal of Surrealism and the Americas, 13(1), 112-131. [link]

We first saw the new ultralight weight architecture, when these huge air conditioners were suspended over the streets, digital image, 2009.

Sacrifical Architecture, digital Image, 2009.

Seagram Series 8 (Invasive Architecture), digital image, 2009.

Seagram Series 1-7, digital images, 2009.
One of the most starkly beaufiful modern buildings in New York is the 1958 Seagram Building by German architect, Mies van der Rohe. If you look at the building you may not notice the Seagram’s most remarkable design decision, to step back from the street and produce a plaza and reflecting pond onto the street, and giving you some space to step back and see the building’s bronze facade. Recognising intuitively that building’s relationship to the street has a distinct formal similarity to John William Waterhouse’s 1891 painting, Odysseus and the Sirens, Weir interjected Sirens in front of the Seagram, disturbing the modernist stoicism with repressed and repetitive dreams. In the 8 image series, the 6th image is the wholly plausible architectural proposal that appears in a sequence of otherwise completely imaginary spontaneously created imagery- here is some of the magic concretisation of the surrealist method.