Aleksey P

Last July I read a book about the Great Depression. In it they described a carnival tent, kept at arm's length from the others, where men would gather at night. And they would peer through a gauzy curtain to watch a woman lie on a fainting couch and await the coming dawn. The men could not make out her face, or even if she was truly beautiful, but

Treat your life like an experiment

“All things originate from one another, and vanish into one another according to necessity; they give to each other justice and recompense for injustice in conformity with the order of Time.”

• Anaximander

“The problems of “art” as architectural aspiration comes down to these:

• Art is proudly non-functional and impractical.

• Art reveres the new and despises the conventional.

• Architectural art sells at a distance.

Architect Peter Calthorpe maintains that many of the follies of his profession would vanish if architects simply decided that what they do is cr