22 Monday Aug 2022
Posted in Architecture, Walkability
“I walk everywhere in the city. Any city. You see everything you need to see for a lifetime. Every emotion. Every condition. Every fashion. Every glory. “Maira Kalman
“There is nothing more revealing than to see a thinking person walking, just as there is nothing more revealing than to see a walking person thinking… Walking and thinking are in a perpetual relationship that is based on trust.” Thomas Bernhard
12 Friday Aug 2022
Posted in Architecture, Topophilia
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«It is impossible for the inhabitants of different worlds to walk or sit or stand on the same floor, because they have differing conceptions of what is horizontal and what is vertical. Yet they may well share the use of the same staircase. On the top staircase illustrated here, two people are moving side by side and in the same direction, and yet one of them is going downstairs and the other upstairs. Contact between them is out of the question because they live in different worlds and therefore can have no knowledge of each other’s existence.» M.C. Escher
26 Friday Nov 2021
Posted in Architecture, Poetry, Uncategorized
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When I look at you
A reed smell comes to me
Thin periscope
Discreet among all the chirping and bird songs
It’s all about echolocation
Tonight
I wanted to let the sky enter my foundations
Widen the walls
Surprise the slow sway of the branches in the wind
Everything changed
My building no longer needs columns or a water jet
I started looking for air holes that would break the sonorous magma of the city
The envelope of my building is no longer an envelope.
The walls are no longer walls
I told you about Herzog’s diary
How he had undertaken a twenty two days march from Munich to Paris
Against the fate of the imminent death of Lotte Eisner
Haw at the end he walks into the sick room declaring
Open the window for the past few days I have been able to fly
So do I
29 Friday Oct 2021
Posted in Architecture
Building a tower has been an incredible experience, challenging but I am proud of it. I hope in 20 years from now. I can still pass by and remember every little piece, every little hardware, every little joint that I had to review. In many humans achievements, architecture is the one that leaves the most it’s indelible imprint .
I learned more from creative people working on site than I do from other architects because they have a way of looking at things that is really practical. And this practically is missing in our profession, when we try to sell concepts to investors. I also realised as Corbusier said, that I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster and leaves less room for lies.
20 Thursday May 2021
Posted in Architecture, Sidewalks
Open air highways planning for the future, the deeply paved path with real sidewalks maintain the illusion. Immovable guardians of order, last ramparts, legends and false memories relieve a little of the past. Search for a breach disappeared from the cameras, lost in specialized areas. Slipping through an impenetrable forest.
26 Monday Apr 2021
Posted in Architecture
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Normality is a paved road: it’s comfortable walking, but no flowers grow in it.
Vincent Van Gogh
28 Saturday Nov 2020
Posted in Architecture, Panim
Twenty-six years ago I maintained that the use of ornamentation on objects of practical use would disappear with the development of mankind, a constant and consistent development, which was as natural process as the atrophy of vowels in final syllables in popular speech. By that i did not mean what some purists have carried ad absurdum, namely that ornament should be systematically and consistently eliminated. What i did mean was that where it had disappeared as necessary consequences of human development, it could not be restored, just as people will never return to tattooing their face.
Adolf Loos
03 Thursday Sep 2020
Posted in Architecture, Art, Concepts, Uncategorized
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The idea was to spend 4 min per object and create 3 series of 10 sculptures that tell a story with a continuous and spontaneous thread. It does not leave time for thinking, you have to create order within your own chaos as said Pierre Soulages: “ we are always being stalked by two things that are equally dangerous : order and disorder. Order can be sterile. Disorder productive. And vis versa. I like works which allow me to construct myself. And which construct me. Rilke said something I admire:”it submerges us. We organize it. But it falls to pieces. We organize it again and we ourselves fall to pieces”. “
3 shadows behind your phonograph
19 Sunday Jul 2020
Posted in Architecture, Topophilia, Uncategorized
“The house resembles a child’s drawing. A deputizing childishness which grew forth because someone prematurely renounced the charge of being a child. Open the doors, enter! Inside unrest dwells in the ceiling and peace in the walls. Above the bed there hangs an amateur painting representing a ship with seventeen sails, rough sea and a wind which the gilded frame cannot subdue.
It is always so early in here, it is before the crossroads, before the irrevocable choices. I am grateful for this life! And yet I miss the alternatives. All sketches wish to be real.”
“There exists for each one of us an oneiric house, a house of dream-memory, that is lost in the shadow of a beyond of the real past.”
17 Friday Jul 2020
Posted in Architecture, Uncategorized
Man get lost in the city without limit. Architects enlarged the tunnel until we lost sight of its walls. They support, strengthen, charge the density of the miniaturized world and then they invent windows to run away in slow motion.
“Already more than once I’ve been asked why I think or imagine a utopian country, a utopian world where everything will be good, in which we all will be good. Answering this, if you constantly compare yourself to the horror of this everyday life, can be a paradox, because what we have is nothing. You are rich if you have something that is more than material things. And I don’t believe in this materialism, this consummation society, this capitalism, this monstrosity that is perpetrated here, this enrichment of people who have no right to get rich behind our backs. I truly believe in something, and then I say ′′ a day will come “. And a day will come. Yes, it probably won’t come, because they’ve always destroyed it, it’s been so many millennia that they destroy it. It won’t come and nevertheless I believe it, because if I couldn’t believe it anymore, I couldn’t even write anymore.”
Ingeborg Bachmann
(Rome, October 17, 1973…)
Selbstwehr 
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