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Keeping track of former Architectural Association computery stuff genius, John Fraser John Fraser may refer to:
  • John Fraser (bishop) (d. 1507), Scottish prelate, Bishop of Ross
  • John Fraser (Canadian), Auditor General of Canada (1905-1919)
  • John Fraser (university president), former president of Penn State University.
, has always been interesting and the latest clue to what he is doing (research co-ordinator for Gehry Technologies) is in a footnote Text that appears at the bottom of a page that adds explanation. It is often used to give credit to the source of information. When accumulated and printed at the end of a document, they are called "endnotes."  to an interview with him in Architecture Australia whose website is at www.architectureaustralia.com/aa/. AA is the bimonthly bi·month·ly  
adj.
1. Happening every two months.

2. Happening twice a month; semimonthly.

adv.
1. Once every two months.

2. Twice a month; semimonthly.

n. pl.
 magazine of the Australian architects' institute. If the abbreviated web version is anything to go by it is comprehensive--although the editors are addicted ad·dict·ed
adj.
1. Physiologically or psychologically dependent on a habit-forming substance.

2. Compulsively or habitually involved in a practice or behavior, such as gambling.
 to redundant capital letters, tiny type and horrible words like 'gifted' which used to be an adjective adjective, English part of speech, one of the two that refer typically to attributes and together are called modifiers. The other kind of modifier is the adverb.  but seems to have become a verb, a substitute for the now deeply unfashionable 'to give'. Whatever, the site gives access to a lot of back issues of the mag, is easily navigated but, maybe it's my computer, I kept getting messages about secure and nonsecure items when I moved around the site. Maybe the reason for the slowness of the whole enterprise.

Sutherland Lyall explores prefabs and other virtual quirks.
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Author:Lyall, Sutherland
Publication:The Architectural Review
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