Thursday, 26 January 2012
Saturday, 7 January 2012
blind leading the blind...
for those who believe aromatherapy works in architectural education...Architecture, unlike other arts, does not find its patterns in nature.
G.Samper, 1834 inaugural lecture, quoted in H.Samper, 1880, 7
What man makes nature cannot make. Nature does not build a house, nature does not make a locomotive, nature does not make a playground. They grow out of a desire to express.
Louis Kahn, 1969, quoted in Wurman, 75
We should not then be surprised that architects have been working with colours again for sometime now. But their spiritual and creative poverty, their total lack of plain humanity is, at best, depressing. Today colours serve only to disguise their incompetence...
Potlatich, F. 1954, 46
... architectural discourse that it too often imitates or caricatures the discourse of power, and that it suffers from the delusion that ‘objective’ knowledge of ‘reality’ can be attained by means of graphic representations...
Lefebvre, H. 1974
It becomes problematic when leaders continue to think that there's only one way of doing things, that the relationship is hierarchical, tat positions aren't constantly changing. It's always been the younger people who bring about change...
Eric Own Moss
find yourself where you started, when blind leading the blind...!
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