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Thelonious Monk embracing silence
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
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