The journal
About Meridian Notes
Architecture begins to get interesting when we stop treating it as background.
Small observations, held still
Meridian Notes is an independent editorial journal about buildings and the experience of looking at them. Its subjects are ordinary: the edge of a panel, a doorway, a window reveal, a shadow moving across a wall.
The journal pairs a photograph with short reading notes. The writing separates what can be seen from what would need further evidence. It is not a design portfolio, and the buildings shown are not presented as work by Meridian Notes.
A note on interpretation
These essays are visual observations, not building surveys or construction guidance. A photograph does not establish the condition, age, performance, or method of construction of a building. Those questions need their own evidence.
The aim is more modest: to give an everyday detail enough attention that it becomes worth noticing again.
The cover photograph
Concrete Facade (36707740625), by Scott Macpherson, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0.
The local photograph is resized and compressed; the journal view crops it to fit the page. The photograph retains its original license. No endorsement by the photographer is implied.
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