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New quotation to lead off my sketch book:
People often say that I’m curious about too many things at once: Botany, Astronomy, Comparative Anatomy. But can you really forbid a man from harboring a desire to know and embrace everything that surrounds him?
Alexander von Humboldt, 19th Century
Architecture teaches you to see, and therefore you learn to see things - and they are not all in one place. And sometimes they are in places far away from home. And you have to travel; and travelling and seeing is more important to your education than reading books. You have to teach yourself by […]
There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don’t.
- Unknown
Roses are #FF0000 Violets are #0000FF All my base Are belong to you
- Unknown
A quote by T.S. Eliot befitting my impending trip to Argentina.
If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
Some thoughts from Ricardo Legorreta:
The true beauty in nature, as in human beings, cannot be discovered at once. the same is true for buildings. I enjoy the challenge of discovering them little by little, each time in a slightly different way. To me, architecture without a touch of mystery is not genuine; […]
I was looking through my sketchbook the other day and came across a quote I’d jotted down while reading The Devil In The White City by Erik Larson. The book tells the story of the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair also known as The White City. At the close of the fair, the non-permanent […]
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library
- Jorge Louis Borges
“The painters have every advantage over us today…Besides being able to tear up their failures—we never can seem to grow ivy fast enough—their materials cost them nothing. They have no committees of laymen telling them what to do. They have no deadlines, no budgets. We are all sickeningly familiar with the final cuts to our […]
Archi-hell has some very insightful thoughts on how architecture school changes the way we perceive the world.
An Architecture Education changes you. You become a night person. You use words you’ve never heard before – maybe never even existed. You speak in code. You become opinionated. And, worst of all – the thing that haunts me […]
The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
- Saint Augustine