Status Updates From معماری شادکامی

Le Corbusier seems like a wet blanket… I highly efficient wet blanket I suppose. “Home life today is being paralyzed by the deplorable notion that we must have furniture”

In a more encompassing suggestion, John Ruskin proposed that we seek two things of our buildings. We want them to shelter us. And we want them to speak to us - to speak to us of whatever we find important and need to be reminded of. P.62

Picked it up at the library. Might check it out and read it till I move out. It’s so thought provoking and well written

""... arquitectos que se esqueceram de respeitar as subtilezas da mente humana e que se deixaram seduzir por uma visão simplista de quem poderiamos ser, em vez de tomarem em consideração a realidade labiríntica do que somos."

En el fondo, lo que buscamos es parecernos por dentro a los objetos y los lugares que nos conmueven con su belleza, más que poderlos físicamente.