Man, a hybrid of plant and ghost.
Architecture cannot be understood without some knowledge of the society it serves.
The British love permanence more than they love beauty.
Mine was the role of the oilcan in making the machinery clunk around.
All that changing of plates and flapping of napkins while you wait 40 minutes for your food.
We all know the feeling of surrendering to the embedded biases of our devices. We let our cell phones ping us every time there's an incoming message and check our e-mail even when we'd best pay attention to what's going on around us in the real world. We text while driving.
The world other than as advertised can be an amazing place.
While rationalism at the individual level is a plea for more personal autonomy from cultural norms, at the social level it is often a claim- or arrogation- of power to stifle the autonomy of others.
Was that what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities?