Aleksey Polukeyev

The perennial driver of haste is what is called “the time value of money.” To be an attractive investment, a building must earn at a rate greater than the interest paid on its purchase and construction loans. The project has to make money fast. More developers are done in by payments on their loans than by any other cause. This they insist on bliet

Treat your life like an experiment

Human beings often cling to their certainties for fear that their opinions will be proven false. But a certainty that cannot be called into question is not a certainty. Solid certainties are those that survive questioning. In order to accept questioning as the foundation for our voyage toward knowledge, we must be humble enough to accept that today

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

“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”

Asimov

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

“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

"The Big Bang may have been a large cosmic rebound (or "Big Bounce"), in which a contracting universe reaches the maximum density allowed by the quanta, then rebounds and begins to expand. In the case of a black hole, it is just the star rather than the entire universe that bounces, but the physics is similar: at extremely high density the quanta a

But no one has ever started over from scratch by devising a wholly new conceptual structure, an entirely new vessel. Why? Because we cannot step outside of our own thought. We think in terms of the conceptual structure that we happen to have. Thought changes from within, step by step, in the harsh and continuous confrontation with its object: reali