The blatant unwillingness to share. What if there is actually enough to go around?
text 19
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Ornament is crime is crime
Date TBA
We are conditioned to believe that ornament is crime, that less is more. In fact this so-called wisdom stems not from deep human insights nor profound spiritual truths, but from age-old middle-class snobbery. It’s time to abolish the lies around ‘refinement’ and material lust. Within the constraints of contemporary practice, restrained ‘truth to materials’ only works for the wealthy - the normal-person's version is horrendous and depressing casting class divides in concrete. We must abolish this crude consensus before it irreparably wrecks the experiential and social richness of our environment."
The first quote. Here:
Wow. really good. really interesting. Knit that shit.
text 18
At what point did I/We reject my/our education? Surely there was something worth holding onto.
text 17
Urban Architecture. Knit.
text 16
No one knows how to make architecture anymore. If architecture is important then we have to circumvent those in power. I don't know that I've ever seen architecture as a political act - like really - until now. The built environment against societal trends. Architecture cannot be reactionary.
text 15
There is a clear freedom to creating music - when that freedom exists of course. It only exists when there isn't an end goal in mind.
text 14
An assembly of many disparate elements working together only because they are woven together.
text 13
Dial in to what can be done, then finish.
text 12
I'm actually grateful. Grateful that time didn't move quite as fast as it it seemed like it had. Maybe just once.
text 11
It's not their vision which is why they don't get it. That's ok. They're only frustrated when you don't lead them.
text 10
The critical relationship between materiality and a concept. Be as analytical as possible until you start to see patterns.
text 9
I think it's my job to make it happen. With my money.
text 8
It's a difficult thing to tell someone that the space they value - as it is - could be something more. Perhaps it's arrogant to tell them that it - should - be something more. It's just that most people respond in a very simplistic way to what they know and nothing more. So when it comes to spatial things, it's virtually impossible to discuss a truly new idea. Even with a good picture. People just don't get it until it is a physical thing.
text 7
Driftwood found.
text 6
To take what has little value and give it a reason to become something worth maintaining.
text 5
Work. Desire. The two will probably never find harmony. I think perhaps I want to try to get as close to harmony as possible though.
text 4
Trust and design. Maybe the most important thing. Don't underestimate the trust of those who need you right now.
text 3
All things spatial. One good idea should anchor many. Make one good idea work, then others will fall into place.
text 2
Space and religion. Architecture and the processes that prevent it. Just because something is built and occupied doesn't make it architecture. Architecture is something higher and more important than simply building. Meaningful space. Religion.
text 1
This is an attempt to write succinctly about convoluted thoughts. Not to make sense of them - at least immediately - but to record them somewhere. Maybe in time a collection will form and something articulate will take shape.