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2raiser + thread = 60 ~ 65 cm, 2(15) + 30 = 60; 15 + 30 = 45, r + t = 40 ~ 45 cm

variation matters

a poet? the storytelling is awful—all the same for every character.

the columns and the rib vaults are mimicking the trees walk outside the building. shaped the interior with stone and the exterior with nature’s elements.

unfaithfulness of a girl, unnatural—different cultures, degrade or … just fantasy?

‘We were in the middle of winter, the wind blew strong from the northeast…’

jealousy can’t fade with time—it’s human nature

‘A person who has not done one half his day’s work, by ten o’clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.’ I like that. like—tell the story leisurely, and, finish it in the same way.

he were it before baptised—racism here is very tied to religion

adorable buildings, adorable ruins—people protects what they love

we all love windows—balance between private and communal

‘… to imagine is to imagine the already imagined; to dream is to dream the already dreamed’.

in the woods I learnt

be imaginative but not using ‘the imagination of the detached dreamer’.

‘The knowing of the third kind’. I like that—a very contextual name for a contextual way of thinking. ‘Unlike the first two (knowing “how” and knowing “that”)’.

the building couldn’t exist without the Bill of Quantity, as for the Quantity Surveyor—so to say. but, for an Architect, the building wouldn’t exist without a set of Drawings. in the end… architects are (but) one part of a much wider social system.

the three-stage elevation of Gothic Order: ARCADE of pointed arches, a stark—plain WALL, and CLERESTORY windows.

‘Negotiating’ is different from an uncritical and inevitable of ‘combining’.

‘Just because it has curves doesn’t mean it’s
soft’.
that—that is!

‘you’re not drawing buildings, you’re drawing ideas’.

‘The true form of architecture was decided by the choice of roof’, that reminds me of Aalto’s French client.
He wanted his house to be designed by Le Corbusier, perhaps for a sense of national pride, right?
‘But… I want a roof’, he said.
In the end, he hired Alvar Aalto—the Finnish architect—instead.
Sometimes architecture begins with just shelter logic—stubborn demand for a roof.

‘… down to earth, in touch with common sense about everyday things—not flying high in the sky of concepts and fantasies’.

‘… in ale none of that mattered; only the moment’.

al - ‘Asr

‘… the best way to start is to look out
of the window at le temps’.

The moment you raise your voice and lose your temper, you lose the argument; through studied politeness, the battle is won.

‘Greed is what fuels this man – greed and revenge’. The best motivations for a ‘low’ man to do just about anything, I find.

be modest and light-foot enough, allow vision to be adjusted to the circumstances—be contextual.

the parlour placed against the stair room, so naturally the space beneath the stairs becomes a storage for it. the dining hall or what they call refectory—the eating room for communal meals—is placed near, by, or even above the river. Opposite its entrance, a pavilion containing a fountain which got its water from uncontaminated spring. the river is used for washing dishes.

‘… between architecture as it
wants to be and architecture as it is’.

the morning light filtered through three east-facing windows in an enclosed room dignified the space—no door, just opening for access on the west side with a pair of bays with raised opening on its sides, lit behind the arcade walk of the cloister.

‘purity is a myth’.