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September 7, 2017

CREATION STORY

We are not taught the story of creation. As I have said before in these pages, when we are taught about famous buildings, is it a flashcard mentality. We are taught to recognize the...

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January 13, 2017

CEMINTIRI DE MONTJUIC

The true design icon in Barcelona is a cemetery. Contrary to what you are fed to believe, the most iconic design in Barcelona is not the Barcelona Pavilion or Casa Batllo, both of which...

HISTORY

October 5, 2016

WHO WOULD HAVE LIKED TRANSPARENT DRAWING?

Corb, for one. He of course considered himself a painter first. And his daily painting was a basic exercise in composition, completion, balance, form, etc. Admittedly his paintings were opaque. Yet I think he...

“The nature of space-matter, being soul-like, is such that the more whole it becomes, the more transparent, the more it seems to melt, the more it realizes itself, releases its own inner reality, the more transparent it becomes, the more transcendent.” Alexander.

“When an object becomes observable, measurable, and quantifiable, it already has become civilized; the disciplinary organization of civilization extends its subjection to the object in the very way it makes it knowable.” Lynch.

“The great book, always open and which we should make an effort to read is that of nature; all other books are taken from it. And in them there are the mistakes and misinterpretations of men.” Gaudi.

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