Architecture Archives - Slow Space
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Architecture Archives - Slow Space
“emotional architecture”—a concept which also lends the title to this exhibition. According to Barragán, “It is very important for humankind that architecture should move by its beauty; if there are many equally valid technical solutions to a problem, the one which offers the user a message of beauty and emotion, that one is architecture.”
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an ode to the joy of architecture.
Paul Goldberger • Building Art
What Le Corbusier understood about architecture is that it must always confront the present. The need for shelter is deeply ingrained in us, that sense of “being at home” that we can always intuit when we feel safe in the place we’re residing. But when architecture falls out of sync with the conditions we live in, home begins to feel more and more ... See more
Noah Putnam • The Concrete Oasis
we may find ourselves arguing that, ultimately, it doesn’t much matter what buildings look like, what is on the ceiling or how the wall is treated – professions of detachment that stem not so much from an insensitivity to beauty as from a desire to deflect the sadness we would face if we left ourselves open to all of beauty’s many absences.
Alain de Botton • The Architecture of Happiness (Vintage International)
Cities Need to Realize the Value of Emotional Design
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Architecture is physical, tangible and material. It is concrete, steel and glass. It is wood, brick and stone. It shelters and protects us by partitioning the vast expanses of physical space.