October 2011
58 posts
“it is not necessary to devote a few years to professional study and five to...”
– Smiljan Radic
“Creemos que la arquitectura y el arte público deben proveer un porvenir seguro y...”
– [Smiljan Radic]
“Practice has a logic which is not that of the logician.”
– Pierre Bourdieu
“Agitate, agitate.”
– Frederick Douglass
Now?
Historically design affected only a select few; but today and increasingly more so every year it effects more and more people. The human species has become an urban species, and the urban environment more than any other is designed. That coupled with the widespread democratizing effects of digital technology and we have both digital and physical environments in need of thoughtful design action.
A CLARION CALL FOR INTEGRATED ARCHITECTURE, DESIGN...
In 1953 Ivan Chteheglov wrote his Letterist manifesto about the future of architecture
and the city as ‘Everyone will live in his own personal “cathedral”, so to speak… there
will be rooms more conducive to dreams than any drug, and houses where one cannot
help but love…’
He described ‘new changeable decors’ and ‘buildings charged with an evocative power,
symbolic edifices...
“I admire the dazzling manual skill acquired by the students through their...”
– When the Cathedrals Were White, Le Corbusier
“Don’t Be Trapped by Dogma – Which is Living With the Results of Other People’s...”
– Steve Jobs
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– Kurt Vonnegut
