Sunday, January 29, 2012
The ultimate pleasure of architecture is that impossible moment when an architectural act, brought to excess, reveals both the traces of reason and the immediate experience of space.
— Bernard Tschumi, Architecture and Disjunction
Saturday, January 28, 2012
For whom the present was scarcely more than an indefinite rumor.
— Jorge Luis Borges, “The Man on the Threshold"
Friday, January 27, 2012
Son of a bitch, I’m sick of these dolphins.
— Steve Zissou, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Thursday, January 26, 2012
It occurred to me that this might be the bed used by the resident of the house, whose monstrous anatomy was revealed obliquely by this object in much the way the anatomy of an animal, or a god, may be known by the shadow it casts.
— Jorge Luis Borges, “There Are More Things”
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
If it could be argued that the discourse about art was art and thus could be exhibited as such, the theoretical discourse about space certainly was not space.
— Bernard Tschumi, Architecture and Disjunction
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Calm, collected, German.
— Steve Zissou, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Monday, January 23, 2012
In truth, the more he is an artist, the more he seeks aid in Chance but ultimately domesticates it, directs it, and solicits it; but he also makes choices within it, accepts it but rejects some of it.
— Umberto Eco, “The Form of Disorder,” Pidgin Magazine Issue 9
Sunday, January 22, 2012
Some places are like people.
— Dick Hallorann, The Shining
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Sexiled
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Friday, January 20, 2012
What is most important, however, is that none of them can lay claim to stand as the referent primitive.
— Jeffrey Kipnis, “A Family Affair”
Thursday, January 19, 2012
There’s no lack of void.
— Rem Koolhaas, S,M,L,XL
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Annyong.
— Annyong, Arrested Development
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Gossip was architecture.
— Bernard Tschumi, Architecture and Disjunction
Monday, January 16, 2012
You can also think through it.
— Bernard Tschumi, Architecture and Disjunction
Sunday, January 15, 2012
Any cause-and-effect relationship between form, use, function, and socioeconomic structure has become both impossible and obsolete.
— Bernard Tschumi, Architecture and Disjunction
Saturday, January 14, 2012
I’m always waiting in shadows.
— Cold War Kids, “Royal Blue”
Friday, January 13, 2012
A bar of sulfur in the drawer of a mahogany desk?
— Jorge Luis Borges, “The Witness”
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Repetition properly so called is recollected forwards.
— Søren Kierkegaard via The Anxiety of Influence
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
A few words attributed by a Persian bookseller to Al-Mu'tasim are perhaps an expansion of words spoken by the hero; that and other ambiguous similarities may signal the identity of the seeker and the sought; they may also signal that the sought has already influenced the seeker.
— Jorge Luis Borges, “The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim”
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Horizontal connections.
— Stan Alan
