Optimize for legacy, not empire. Empires die because they’re alone, legacies live because they involve others.

-OH, on building teams and brand communities

HarvardX GSD1xThe Architectural Imagination

Lecture 1.1 Aesthetic Perception

Transcript:

K. MICHAEL HAYS: I'm in Gund Hall, which is the home of the Graduate School of Design. And I'm in the studio space, which is where the most intense activity takes place of design, of analysis and research, of imagination. We'll speak about the

architectural imagin

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." - John Quincy Adams

cultivating a kind of motion that can coexist with stillness.

In the physical world, asymmetry is an underlying necessity for any change to happen. For example, the ‘death of the universe’ happens when all energy gradients are exhausted, and there are no asymmetries to create a gradient for energy to flow. If it weren’t for the micro asymmetries in the very early universe, nothing interesting like structures