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Parks, plazas, gardens, and rooftops are culture-producing places, not merely place for retreat. Sidewalks and bridges become ends in themselves instead of just a means of getting from one place to another. ↗
No matter how hard life is, you are your own architecture. If you give up then there’s no one that can help you, but if you want to keep building your future, then no one can stop you either. ↗
The only grown-up other than Jacob who ever came into his schoolroom was Eli Willard. School was in session one day when the Connecticut itinerant reappeared after long absence, bringing Jacob's glass and other merchandise. Jacob seized him and presented him to the class. 'Boys and girls, this specimen here is a Peddler. You don't see them very often. They migrate, like the geese flying over. This one comes maybe once a year, like Christmas. But he ain't dependable, like Christmas. He's dependable like rainfall. A Peddler is a feller who has got things you ain't got, and he'll give 'em to ye, and then after you're glad you got 'em he'll tell ye how much cash money you owe him fer 'em. If you ain't got cash money, he'll give credit, and collect the next time he comes 'round, and meantime you work hard to git the money someway so's ye kin pay him off. Look at his eyes. Notice how they are kinder shiftly-like. Now, class, the first question is: why is this feller's eyes shiftly-like? ↗
#consumerism #credit #practical-education #satire #architecture
Sustainability is now a big baggy sack in which people throw all kinds of old ideas, hot air and dodgy activities in order to be able to greenwash their products and feel good. ↗
Beautiful building,” Phoebe said. Sam nodded. “Classical Revival,” he said. It was yet another display of his seemingly unending knowledge that both made her proud and made her feel very small. Maybe if she had gone to college she would have learned about building styles and understand what Classical Revival meant. They could have intelligent discussions about things like rooflines and columns. ↗
In merging nature and culture the most successful cities combine such universal needs as maintaining or restoring contact with the cycles of nature, with specific, local characteristics. ↗
#design #parks #urban #architecture
It is no coincidence that precisely when things started going downhill with the gods, politics gained its bliss-making character. There would be no reason for objecting to this, since the gods, too were not exactly fair. But at least people saw temples instead of termite architecture. Bliss is drawing closer; it is no longer in the afterlife, it will come, though not momentarily, sooner or later in the here and now - in time. The anarch thinks more primitively; he refuses to give up any of his happiness. "Make thyself happy" is his basic law. It his response to the "Know thyself" at the temple of Apollo in Delphi. These two maxims complement each other; we must know our happiness and our measure. ↗
#ernst-jünger #happiness #politics #self-knowledge #architecture
私の場合、建築の情報を収集するのは、もっぱら、図書館よりむしろ古書店や大型書店であり、その習慣は現在でも続いています。これも恩師からの教えだと記憶していますが、本の購入は将来への投資だと考え、図書館で借りるよりも、生活費を切り詰めてでも購入することにしています。 また、その恩師が座右の銘として私たち学生に語っていた言葉も、建築の情報収集に臨む上で大切だと思いますので、以下に紹介します。それは、アメリカの建築史家・教育者であるターピン・バニスター（Turpin Bannister）の言葉です。建築家にとって歴史を学ぶ意味合いを語っています。 a）歴史は、建築家の研究室である b）歴史は、社会基盤となる技術をゆっくりと豊かにする役目をもつ c）歴史は、知見を広めてくれる d）歴史は、建築家を偉大な仕事へと導く e）歴史は、建築家に深さを与える どうでしょうか。何とも含蓄のある言葉ではありませんか。[53ページ] ↗
Every girl who aspires ultimately to outfit her own home should assemble a library on architectural styles and on furniture both traditional and modern. As few brides can buy expensively illustrated volumes and household equipment simultaneously, a girl should begin asking parents for books early in life, probably while still in the primary grades... ↗
