More maps

I'm enjoying "Maps of the Imagination" and although the book is geared towards writers, we can apply it to our study of architecture. We started building our maps using a photo from the giant book for inspiration and the words that we chose from each chapter.

Chapter 3: Projections and Conventions

1. measure the whole universe
2. objective presentation
3. assume bias
4. ability to convince us
5. cartographic paradox
6. homogenous
7. "conventions of illusion"
8. "a bank of frozen oatmeal"
9. frenzy
10. "unsettle the suburbs of your routine sentiments"
11. "rattle the tracks of your trains of thought"
12. the issue of color
13. armchair explorer
14. effectiveness
15. transparently useful
16. orientation
17. crucial relationship
18. curious exceptions
19. cause and effect
20. resiliency
21. persuasive evidence
22. logical conclusion
23. implicit assumptions
24. correlation
25. lush descriptions
26. detail
27. context
28. artistic representation
29. intellectual construct
30. selectivity
31. disturbing omissions
32. inconsequential
33. assertion
34. visual statement
35. "Words can never be a simple reflection of life."
36. unspeakable data
37. minimize distortion
38. speak powerfully
39. a point of view
40. vital energy

Chapter 4: Imaginary Scrolls
1. "Perhaps being lost, one should get loster."
2. orientation is entirely arbitrary
3. visually dominant
4. ongoing practice
5. fundamental assumptions
6. the rules of composition
7. automatism
8. scientific desire for comprehension
9. "into the beaten way"
10. technical challenge
11. disorientation
12. disorient and orient us spatially
13. perspective
14. "repeated with progressive vagueness"
15. implications
16. understanding rises
17. linear unfolding of words
18. "navigational systems"
19. travel-oriented enterprise
20. conventional realist
21. absorbed and uncertain
22. conflicting desires
23. the metaphor of seduction
24. the cycle of arousal and denial
25. interwoven narratives
26. desire for coherence
27. methodical
28. utterly controlled
29. familiar trail
30. deviations
31. blending of dialogue
32. never fully yields
33. larger weave
34. adapting
35. formidable
36. repetition
37. infinitely ascending
38. bold assertion
39. a world of obsession
40. crucial components