Serendipitous Woodblock
“It seems reasonable to suppose that people will possess some of the qualities of the buildings they are drawn to: to expect that if they are alive to the charm Continue Reading →
Category Archives: Quotes
Propinquity
“We seem divided between an urge to override our senses and numb ourselves to our settings and a contradictory impulse to acknowledge the extent to which our identities are indelibly Continue Reading →
Weekend 206.0
(1) Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of 1373 (2) Fantastic hyperrealistic oil paintings by Steve Mills (3) Ways to Manage an Image (WSJ) (3a) The Art and Soul of Disney (4) Jean Nouvel: Continue Reading →
Thanksgiving 2011
(1) Playmofan (2) The Original Disneyland Hotel (2a) Disneyland Hotel interior lobby area (3) Christmas and winter photoshop styles (4) “We are writing a primer on planning for the same Continue Reading →
Monk
“Only in quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.” — Hans Margolius
Weekend 201.0 (WSJ Edition+)
(1) Mastermind of the Mega-Coaster (2) Great Books Matter Culture – A catchall for any group of things or persons that one wants to link together for the purpose of Continue Reading →
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 →
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 →