Anyone who has lived through an English winter can see the point of building Stonehenge to make the Sun come back.
I've been a lucky man. I've only faced one real tragedy: the death of my wife, Maggie, from cancer in 1995.
Modern Architecture died in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 15, 1972, at 3. 32 p. m. (or thereabouts), when the infamous Pruitt Igoe scheme, or rather several of its slab blocks, were given the final coup de grace by dynamite.
I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational.
Post-Modern space is historically specific, rooted in conventions, unlimited or ambiguous in zoning and irrational or transformational in its relation of parts to whole……. …skew or distorted spaces, created by sharp angles which exaggerate perspective…. …always keep a mental coordinate system no matter how free- form and baroque they become. The reference plane is always an implied frontality, and the route through the building or the curvilinear elements then relate to this conceptual cage
If you look at any leaf on any tree branch, it's similar to but not exactly a repetition of the previous branch. So the new science of complexity or showing how an architecture can be produced just as quickly, cheaply and efficiently by using computer production methods to get the slight variation, the self-similarity.
In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique.
What saddens me is the corruption of youth and beauty, and the loss of soul, which is only replaced by money.
The stupid woman is the one who thinks she doesn’t need any help.
Tea would arrive, the cakes squatting on cushions of cream, toast in a melting shawl of butter, cups agleam and a faint wisp of steam rising from the teapot shawl.
No one should be denied the opportunity to get an education and increase their earning potential based solely on their inability to pay for a college education.