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ONICS
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Year of the Dragon
ONICS / 2026
Lexicography
SYNOPSIS
The suffix -onic is contained within a number of words central
to various aspects of architectural culture (e.g. history, geometry, identity, etc): canonic, conic,
iconic, tectonic, architectonic, mnemonic, platonic, etc. When
expanded into other areas such as music, sound, chemical worlds, politics, and
power (e.g. hegemonics, pandemonics) and more, a strange cross section unrolls through a
vast territory of fields, united through -onics. In what amounts to a fusion of a limited dictionary, a truncated atlas, and a technical manual, ONICS uses specific words as the launching point for expanded meanings and definitions that range from the ordinary to hyper-obscure.
Using both historical images and concepts as well as those from the current work and ideas of NMDA, ONICS is above all a book about signs and meaning in many aspects of culture, with an emphasis on the art and science of architecture and music / sound.
The organization of the book is set by the number of letters in each term, beginning with 5 and ending with 13. As in a dictionary, the terms simply flow from one to the next with texts and images. The terms are:
05 Conic, Ionic, Sonic, Tonic
06 Bionic, Iconic, Ironic, Japonic, Phonic
07 Avionic, Canonic, Hedonic, Laconic,
08 Diatonic, Duo - Sonic, Harmonic, Tectonic, Mnemonic, Photonic, Platonic
09 Aeroponic, Hegemonic, Monotonic, Symphonic
10 Anachronic, Electronic, Histrionic,
Hydroponic, Inharmonic, Megaphonic,
Monophonic, Oxymoronic, Pandemonic, Polyphonic, Supersonic, Synchronic
11 Chameleonic, Geotectonic, Nonharmonic, Telharmonic
12 Dodecaphonic, Los Angelonic, Philharmonic, Pyschotronic, Stereophonic
13 Architectonic, Hercotectonic, Nonelectronic
Publisher: TBD
Book design: Neil Denari
HOUSE
Karasansui House
Plate Graphics House
Trimmed Circle House
Alan-Voo House
ST House
M&L House
Selby Avenue House
ADU No. 1
No Mass House
CLT House
Micro-Footprint House
OFFICE
9000 Wilshire
5600 West Adams Wellness Center
Sotoak Pavilion
3 Vessels
Endeavor
Media Office Block
Green Brick Prism
Orange Square
HOTEL
La Brea Hotel
Alsace Hotel
6AM Hotel
Qualia Hotel
HOUSING
HL23
902 Davie
2 Burrard Place
130 West Broadway Porsche Design Tower Western Green Permanent Shadow
320 La Cienega
Dos Rios Housing Slavyanka City
Kite City
Torre del Golf
NEU DevelopmentAomori
INSTITUTIONAL
Wildwood School
MOCA
Chapel in the Forest
Sori Yanagi Museum Hameetman Center
CUHK Student Center Maribor Museum
Carlow Art Center Arlington Museum of Art
COMMERCIAL
Sycamore Arches Twentieth
Commissary
MUFG Nagoya
MUFG Ginza
MUFG Umeda
Ningbo Bar Tower
l.a. Eyeworks
Casey Kaplan Gallery Adidas Outlet Store Thinkpark
TRANSPORTATION
Keelung Terminal
Peach Airlines
Houston Central Station
BOOK
Annotated Notebooks ONICS
Mass X
OSU Baumer Lectures Gyroscopic Horizons Interrupted Projections
FURNITURE
Shift_Leg Table
EXHIBITION
T-Space
TROIA
Gallery MA_IP Fluoroscape
Close - Up
Chess & Go
MEDIA
Monorad
Currency Design
ARCHIVE
Cor-Tex 1982 - 98 NMDA 1998 -
© 2023 Neil M. Denari Architects