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Learning and Drawing
Drawing itself is a part of learning: learning to use one’s eyes to see more intensely -Henry Moore (via)
Star Wars a New Heap
Thirty years after the premiere of Star Wars, the strange chimpanzee crossed another threshold. For the first time in fifty-five hundred years of building cities, more of humanity now lives in them than in rural settlements. In the coming years there will be countless master plans for new mega-cities in Africa, Asia, and South America. [...]
Deadlines
I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by. -Douglas Adams If everything’s under control, you’re going too slow. -Mario Andretti
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Never Be An Architect
You’ll never be an Architect, but aim for a career in journalism! -Toivo Salervo to Alvar Aalto, who, in the summer of 1916, just before beginning his studies in architecture, was a trainee in Salervo’s architects’ office. #
2 years today
The taste of the apple….lies in the contact of the fruit with the palate, not in the fruit itself; in a similar way…poetry lies in the meeting of poem and reader, not in the lines of symbols printed on the pages of a book. What is essential is the aesthetic act, the thrill, the almost [...]
Torture by another name
Critics will no doubt say I am accusing the Bush administration of being Hitler. I’m not. There is no comparison between the political system in Germany in 1937 and the U.S. in 2007. What I am reporting is a simple empirical fact: the interrogation methods approved and defended by this president are not new. Many [...]
The Philosophy of space
We put thirty spokes together and call it a wheel; But it is on the space where there is nothing That the usefulness of the wheel depends. We turn clay to make a vessel; But it is on the space where there is nothing That the usefulness of the vessel depends. We pierce doors and [...]
OMA at work
I’m unsure what to make of this essay about working at O.M.A. On the one hand I’m thrilled by the thought of working there in a kind of supercharged electrical field of design, where ideas are ruthlessly produced, used ,discarded, reworked. On the other it sounds like a slightly authoritarian production office which makes last [...]
Let one building be like another
Let one building be like another. We won’t be published in Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration and we won’t be made professors of applied art, but we will have served ourselves, our times, our nation and mankind to the best of our ability. (via) -Adolf Loos Something about this quote really makes sense, sometimes good design [...]
Telegram from Helsinki
A Telegram from Aalto sent to MIT in 1958 ‘Dear John just unable to produce enough architectural philosophy you may publish this telegramletter as a substitute stop Sibelius said if you publish three words of explaining music at least two words are wrong this may be true also in my architectural philosophy stop In ordinary [...]
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