Friday, December 7, 2012
I’m a good worker. I worked cable tool rigs, built railroad.
— Henry, There Will Be Blood
Thursday, December 6, 2012
Note
The original transcript has been dry-cleaned and repaired.
The original transcript has been dry-cleaned and repaired.
— Mark Wigley, “Story-Time”
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
The introduction of the problem of meaning within the process of design in such a systematic and conscious way. Such an approach might be seen as a “neo-functionalism.”
— Mario Grandelsonas, “Neo-Functionalism”
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
The return to language is a proof of failure.
— Manfredo Tafuri, The Sphere and the Labrynth
Monday, December 3, 2012
But I feel big because my atoms came from those stars. There’s a level of connectivity. That’s really what you want in life, you want to feel connected, you want to feel relevant, you want to feel like you’re a participant in the goings on of activities and events around you. That’s precisely what we are just by being alive.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson, “The Most Astounding Fact”
Sunday, December 2, 2012
Why take a “path that is no longer a path,” especially if it only leads to self-description?
— Manfredo Tafuri, The Sphere and the Labrynth
Saturday, December 1, 2012
That’s my new favorite camel.
— Stephen, The Brothers Bloom
Friday, November 30, 2012
When it comes time to act, our robust animal realism will always dominate.
— George Sher, "But I Could Be Wrong"
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Who’s that man?
— Kumar, Bottle Rocket
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Even when people are together, they’re occupying their own space.
— P. Adam Sitney
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Like breathing was easy.
— The xx, “Angels”
Monday, November 26, 2012
There is always a group of solutions, one of which is the best under certain conditions.
— Karl Gerstner, “Designing Programmes”
Sunday, November 25, 2012
All normal buildings are unique solutions to specific problems.
— Reyner Banham, The Architecture of the Well-Tempered Environment
Saturday, November 24, 2012
Where the handouts grow on bushes.
And you sleep out every night.
And you sleep out every night.
— Harry McClintock, “In the Big Rock Candy Mountains”
Friday, November 23, 2012
A room is not an incubator to be sterilized of all foreign germs. The forms of life, past and present, shall be given an opportunity to interact.
— Siegfried Giedion, Mechanization Takes Command
Thursday, November 22, 2012
How strange to think of India!
Wealth is nothing but lack of people.
Wealth is nothing but lack of people.
— Robert Bly, “Sunday in Glastonbury"
Wednesday, November 21, 2012
I’m talking about taking it out and chopping it up.
— Royal Tenenbaum, The Royal Tenenbaums
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
In 1965 Le Corbusier drowned swimming in the sea.
— Adolfo Natalini, “How Great Architecture Was In 1966”
Monday, November 19, 2012
Edgar Degas purchased once
A fine El Greco, which he kept
Against the wall beside his bed
To hang his pants on while he slept.
A fine El Greco, which he kept
Against the wall beside his bed
To hang his pants on while he slept.
— Richard Wilbur, “Museum Piece”
Sunday, November 18, 2012
I listen to my words, but they fall far below.
— Cat Stevens, “The Wind”