Archive for February, 2009
How To Design
Always design a thing by considering it in its next largest context…a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan. Eliel Saarinen
Goodbye Dubai, Hello Dubai
A fantastic rant against Dubai and an eloquant rebuttal ( it’s along time since I’ve read such good comments on a blog post).
Genetic Map of Europe 2
Another map and model of predicting where a person will come from in europe based on his genetics.(via) It is only based on common variations and not rare ones so the chances are that the map can be made more accurate in the future at least until the genetic pool gets more mixed up with [...]
Tegnestuen Vandkunsten win Alvar Aalto Medal
The tenth Alvar Aalto Medal was awarded to the Danish architectural practice Tegnestuen Vandkunsten on 03.02.2009. I took a few photos of their conversion of a torpedo factory a little while ago. (via)
The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson
The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson Amazon.com | uk Compare a bacteria with a human, with a city, with the planet. Weave in two personal stories and the clash of ideas and of the inherrant messiness of progress, and you may get the outline of this book. The Ghost Map is at once a real [...]
Learning and Drawing
Drawing itself is a part of learning: learning to use one’s eyes to see more intensely -Henry Moore (via)