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"In a drawing, the syntax is two dimensional and the semantics is three dimensional"
Triggers my thoughts on the different between techniques and emotions. How they intersect and interplay to serve the purpose. Not only in art and architecture but maybe music and, well, everything else.

"Traditionally in Japan, we do not have many plazas or public spaces except for the gardens of temples or shrines. During the 60s and the 70s there were many movements in Japan protesting against defence treaties, and the national authorities dismembered plazas and open spaces..If there are no public spaces, opinion is suppressed and people are made into robots whose only purpose is to work."