Aleksey Polukeyev

Everything about money and buildings says they are expected to live only a brief time, typically 30 years. Most mortgages go for just 25 or 30 years, and so the asset life comes to match the finance period. Just when you own it, you have to replace it.

“In the fall, do leaves on the trees still change color if no one is there to see them?”

“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

“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”

Asimov

The whole area needed to be re-planned. The buildings intended for the cemetery needed another slot in the plan; perhaps the density of the campus as a whole needed to change. To correct for these changes properly, it would have been necessary to draw an entirely new master plan. But of course a new plan was not drawn. There was neither money nor e

“Form ever follows function” (Louis Sullivan) contra positioned with “We shape our buildings, and afterwards our buildings shape us” (Churchill)

Adaptive life re-enters the building when it becomes too cheap for speculation. Turnover refreshes, but it also erases.

Numbers, techniques, and predictions are useful for suggesting, testing, confirming, and putting discoveries to use. But there is nothing technical about the content of the discoveries. The universe does not revolve around the Earth. All the matter that surrounds us is just made up of protons, electrons, and neutrons. There are one hundred billion

Art, like a chemical reaction, can transmute one experience into another.