Everything You Wanted to Know About Barbican Architecture
Stewart Brand, the author of a recent book on preservation called How Buildings Learn, tells of asking one architect what he learned from revisiting his buildings. “Oh, you never go back,” the architect said, surprised at the question. “It’s too discouraging.” For many contemporary architects, time is the enemy of their art.
Michael Pollan • A Place of My Own
find a fresh and different way of using architecture to produce the sensations of satisfaction, comfort, and pleasure that more traditional buildings did.
Paul Goldberger • Building Art
I was delighted when I found the contemporary French philosopher Alain de Botton and his book “The Architecture of Happiness,” about the philosophical and psychological relationship between architecture and our identities.
De Botton writes: “The buildings we admire are ultimately those which, in a variety of ways, extol the values we think worthwhil... See more
De Botton writes: “The buildings we admire are ultimately those which, in a variety of ways, extol the values we think worthwhil... See more
Architecture Archives - Slow Space
A Singapore Home Forgoes Air-Conditioning (and Windows) to Take Living With Nature to an Extreme
Luo Jingmeidwell.com
The place did not exist when she was a child, is less than twenty years old, but in that time much has changed, the fabric of British politics, state definitions. It can be done, she thinks, if people want it badly enough, if they are tired, and hopeful. She stalls, wanders the hallway, reads a notice about the architect – a Catalan, controversiall
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