Sublime

detected in its guts encoded information about how we make things, how we use things, and how we throw things away.

Cultural design.

one of the most troubling trends in architecture, a steady reduction in the authority of the architect as a consequence of the increasing complexity of the construction process.

Designers need the tools and skills to conceptualize people’s lives, to visualize and understand the circulation of capital, people and culture at a global scale, and to intelligently envision the future.”

“Design gives people the ability to be one with the consumer culture—to be anthropologists and sociologists and deeply understand the myriad of cultures around them. It has a set of tools and methods that can guide us towards a much better way of doing things.”

make architecture the focus of his creative energy.

think in terms of neighborhoods and cities and not just single buildings.

So much of what we see in galleries is responding to the imperative to overproduce, overenlarge, overconsume, and for artists with ascending and funded careers this trajectory can seem all but unavoidable. As Roberta Smith points out, the primary meaning of these works is often: “I made this because I can.”

architectural playfulness