February 2012
Architecture for the Other 99% →
A response to “The Architecture Meltdown”
Last surviving veteran of First World War dies... →
Before her death she said: ”I enjoyed my time in the WRAF. There were plenty of people at the airfields where I worked and they were all very good company.
”I would work every hour God sent but I had dozens of friends on the base and we had a great deal of fun in our spare time. In many ways I had the time of my life.
”I met dozens of pilots and would go on dates. I had the opportunity to go up...
Anonymous asked: "Architecture, suggests Karsten Harries, is not only about domesticating space, wresting and shaping a livable place out of empty space. It is also a deep defense against 'the terror of time.' The 'language of beauty' is 'the language of timeless reality.' To create a beautiful object is 'to link time and eternity' in such a way as to redeem us from...
The Architecture Meltdown →
goatarchitecture:
Sobering take on the current affairs of the profession
Anonymous asked: "Aesthetics then is more than a philosophy or theory of art and beauty; it is a way if inhibiting space, a particular location, a way of looking and becoming. It is not organic. I grew up in an ugly house. No one there considered the function of beauty or pondered the use of space... In that house things were not to be looked at, they were to be possessed - space was not to be created by...
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January 2012
“This double movement is a profound one: architecture is always dream and...”
– Roland Barthes - The Eiffel Tower
Watchblah-city:
Interview with Kengo Kuma:
Kengo Kuma has won a multitude of competitions and received many awards, including the prestigious Architecture Institute of Japan Award (1997) and most recently the Spirit of Nature Wood Architecture Award (2002) and the AIA Honorary Fellowship (2011). Major works include the Kirosan Observatory, Water / Glass, Toyoma Center for Performing Arts, Stone...