Weekend 199.1
“There are a lot of people like that. They do no little harm by virtue of their sheer, stupid inertia, lost in between all camps, in the no-man’s-land of their Continue Reading →
Category Archives: Quotes
Lilly Belle
Just as he loved to play soda jerk, he loved to play engineer. He would don an engineer’s cap and a plaid shirt, straddle the tender behind the engine, which Continue Reading →
Weekend 194.1
“Perhaps the hard truth was this: New Yorkers had never come to really love Penn Station. Charles Follen McKim, an architect rankled by the very skyscrapers, crowds, and cacophony that Continue Reading →
194X
Planning in this sense is analogous to historical fiction, but unlike the backward-looking literary genre, its clipped narrative creates an anticipatory endpoint. It romances the nostalgic future, a potential urban Continue Reading →
Weekend 193.1
To put this in plain terms, Americans and their institutions have tended to choose the self-interest and individualism of the free market over the nationalized model more prevalent in postwar Continue Reading →
Weekend 190.1
Someone once asked Goethe what color he liked best. “I like rainbows,” he said. That’s what I love about architecture: If it’s good, it’s about every color in the spectrum Continue Reading →
Now your ageless bell…
“A date, being mere kronos, has no character. It is almost nothing. It is a one-dimensional line, the circumference. A line can have no color. Only kairos, only a two-dimensional Continue Reading →
Weekend 182.0
“What is true of the pine tree, for and by itself, is no less true in the relation of the tree to its environment. The Japanese artist studies pine-tree nature Continue Reading →
Light of lights…
There is no more precious element of immortality than mankind as thus humane Heaven may be the symbol of this light of lights only insofar as heaven is thus a Continue Reading →
Weekend 177.1
How to Get a Real Education: Forget art history and calculus. Most students need to learn how to run a business, says Scott Adams. (WSJ) Meanwhile, some of my peers Continue Reading →