Sublime

the powerful effects of restoring play to our daily lives.

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Christopher Alexander was known for his theories on bringing humanity into architecture. He believed everyone possessed the ability to create and design a space that he called alive. His book, Pattern language, is based on core belief that people should design their own communities. Observation is that some of the best places in the world were desi

In 1927, a music publisher decided to capitalize on Armstrong’s growing renown by releasing two books: 125 Jazz Breaks for Cornet and 50 Hot Choruses for Cornet. But Armstrong never actually wrote down any of this music. He simply showed up in a Chicago studio and improvised phrase after phrase after phrase into the horn of a primitive wax-cylinder

La salle était pleine de gens connus : les hommes pour leur nom, leurs talents ou leur fortune, les femmes pour leur beauté, leurs bijoux ou leurs amants.

Frank almost never started a design with a predetermined shape. He liked to begin by “playing”—a word he used far more often than “working” when he talked about how he went about designing things—with wooden blocks of different sizes, each representing a portion of a building’s functional program. He would then stack or array the blocks in what he

Comme l’amoureux de Madeleine, le lieutenant Zangra attend. « Au fort de Belonzio qui domine la plaine », il passe des années de sa vie à attendre l’ennemi « qui me fera héros ». Quand, enfin, l’ennemi est là, Zangra est devenu un vieux colonel en retraite. Il ne sera jamais héros. Brel a toujours dit qu’il faut faire, et non projeter de faire. Il