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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
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
YouTube Transcript - read YouTube videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIsIKv1lFZw
We'll speak about the architectural imagination.
And I'm going to suggest that some concept like the imagination
is necessary if we want to treat architecture as a mode of knowledge.
The classical philosophers said, the soul
never thinks without phantasm, which is to say that thought needs a material
image, something to carry the thought.
So we begin to think of the imagination as bridging the gap between perception
and understanding.
source: HarvardX GSD1xThe Architectural Imagination
As Howard points out in an earlier book Five Minds for the Future, psychology has largely dropped the ball with respect to this type of broad lens cognition—one that involves wandering across wide epistemological and disciplinary terrain over significant time periods. We do not have a good understanding of who excels at synthesizing, how it is... See more
Janice Min embraces more with less
"It's not about how big you can get, but the discipline of how small you can stay."
"It's not about how big you can get, but the discipline of how small you can stay."
Janice Min embraces more with less
The biggest lie you’ll ever hear as an economics student is that markets are efficient. In the most basic terms, the price of an asset supposedly arises at the equilibrium of quantity demanded and quantity supplied. To reach this equilibrium, both sides of the trade need to know what the other is doing. If an efficient market is a machine, then... See more