“My repugnance to the writing table becomes daily and hourly more deadly and insurmountable. In place of this has come on a canine appetite for reading. And I indulge it, because I see in it a relief against the taedium senectutis; a lamp to lighten my path through the dreary wilderness of time before me, [...]
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What we think or what we know or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do. – John Ruskin All the really good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow. – Grant Wood (There’s something about those two guys [...]
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A major factor in whether people enjoy the place they work has to do with the quality of the people they work with, and whether there are ample opportunities to learn from those people. Some professions lend themselves to this naturally. Take the firm I work for, RogenSi, which is a Business Performance Consultancy. Back [...]
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Segue from my previous post: This month the History Channel is premiering a special called “Life After People” where a group of engineers, artists and visual effects technicians have created simulated long term decay scenarios for large, well-known structures such as the Golden Gate Bridge or the Sears Tower. PREVIEW HERE: http://www.history.com/minisite.do?content_type=Minisite_Generic&content_type_id=57582&display_order=1&mini_id=57517 The emphasis of [...]
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With this latest announced world’s-biggest-building-ever, “Crystal Island,” I’d say we’re finally catching up to the imagined utopian future of “the year two thousand.” No flying robot cars, but then again, I’m sure the place will have great Internet access, something they didn’t predict back in the early days of color television and Isaac Asimov. Moscow’s rapidly [...]
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Maybe it was a professor you had in college or university, a teacher in high school (or even CEGEP, for those who know what that is)… or maybe it was a TA (teacher’s assistant), or your thesis advisor… but whoever it was, you haven’t spoken to them in years. Well, it’s time that you reached [...]
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Chris Ware has recently completed his 29-page series, “Building Stories,” which is soon to be published in book form. Here is a page from it: Many years ago a wise man said to me, “Meaning is architecture comes through use.” Designing a building with particular forms, symbols, signifiers, etc. is all well and good, but what [...]
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I learned a lot of different things from Michael Jemtrud, but one thing that has really stuck with me over the years is the following idea, sketched out on a scrap piece of paper in a School of Architecture computer lab. This graph represents a Generalist… i.e., someone who knows a little bit about a lot of [...]
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