April 2012
61 posts
March 2012
48 posts
Future of Architecture
5 top questions in Architecture:
1. Is it possible to map experience in space? i.e. Genuinely be able control effects in architectural spatial parameters to be able to guide the human psyche?
2. Is it possible to transform or mutate architectural form into anything else (i.e. hoberman sphere) in extremely large scale? I.E. can there be transformable facades that fully open and reveal...
Architecture has to have the element of time. How can you judge the work today?...
– I.M. Pei (My Architect: A Son’s Journey, 2003)
[…] having been extirpated by the Metropolis, nature is now resurrected...
– Rem Koolhaas (Delirious New York)
Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me […] Going...
– Steve Jobs (Newsweek, March 12, 2012)
Three or four masterpieces are more important than fifty or sixty buildings,...
– I.M. Pei (My Architect: A Son’s Journey, 2003)
A hundred profound solitudes together constitute the city of Venice. That is...
– Friedrich Nietzsche (Delirious New York, Rem Koolhaas)