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we call this idea bigamy

that you can take multiple desirable

elements that might not fit together or

even seem mutually exclusive like the

garden home in the high-rise and merge

them together into a new genre

you don't have to remain faithful to a

single idea you can literally marry

multiple ideas into promiscuous hybrids

the beauty is that architecture... See more

“A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they shall never sit.” - Greek Proverb

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... See more

her main focus was Simone Weil. She riffed on Weil’s idea of the void, of making a space inside yourself for the divine to rush into. “Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.”