《切线》是一个线上与纸质媒介并举的内容平台，定期刊登关于建筑的写作。我们鼓励独立的文字、精细的语言和自由的创作，以期滋养一种时刻留意事物之间相关性的机敏的思辨，激发诚恳的发问和耐心的反馈。我们关心建筑和所有建筑声称、曾经声称或仍未声称的与其相牵连的领域，以及这些牵连本身。
- 切线允诺一种动轻盈的文学气质：恰恰是文字把其自身带到远离文字的遥远的地方去；
- 切线期待一种从入神到出神的阅读经验；
- 切线私藏一种锋芒内敛的防御性，微言不可言之事物。
- 一个（切向）滚动的雪球，解放！
Tangent Essays is an online and paper-based content platform that regularly publishes writing about architecture. We encourage independent writing, fine language and free creation, in order to nourish a kind of smart thinking that always pays attention to the correlation between things, and stimulate sincere questions and patient feedback. We care about architecture and all the areas that architecture claims, have claimed or have not yet claimed to be involved with, and these links themselves.
- Tangent Essays promises a dynamic and light literary temperament: it is the text that takes itself to a remote place far away from the text;
- Tangent Essays expects a kind of reading experience from ecstasy to ecstasy;
- Tangent Essays hides a kind of introverted defensiveness, something that can't be said.
- A (tangentially) rolling snowball, liberation!