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is what has happened worthy of me? Gilles Deleuze |
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| I apologise to those people who do not read Dutch. |
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Architecture is Product and Process. Architecture is the plane of consistency that forms as a diaphragm in the meeting of product and process. This idea was taken from Bill Hillier's book, Space is the machine. |
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| Design is a dirty activity, a leaky system. Designers do not have to justify what they use in their designs. They have to justify their designs. A fundamental difference. |
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| Design is a complex toing and froing within the theoretical space of a GOD BOX (this one belonged to Bruce Chatwyn) The following diagram is supposed to be read from the bottom upwards. |
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| The creative potential of architecture lies in the collision of the intentions of the architect, skillfully wrought from the four generators of architecture (Bill Hillier) and the brilliant and generous reading of the architecture by the observer based on his means of judgment. |
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| Make a decision about one aspect of a building and see how it affects every other concern articulated within the rhizome |
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| These are the three conditions of good architecture, each one exists by virtue of the other and cannot be seen separately, in fact one is no more than an aspect of the other. Good construction is an aspect of desirability, desirability is an aspect of usefulness, usefulness is an aspect of stability and back again... |
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| Pulchrum is the latin word for beautiful, Venustas is more primal than that, it refers to our feelings for a beautiful woman. It engages desire more directly... |
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| I also like Form, Function and Physics |
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| Let's lay it to rest. It was a fine slogan once.... |
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| Try to imagine a function without a form and try to imagine a function or a form that has no force... |
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| If form were to swallow its function it would digest it. Forms function might be to swallow, but swallowing is a function that requires form and force. Form, Function and Force are constantly de- and re-territorialising each other... |
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| One of many Aldo van Eyck's methods of making the design of architecture a conscious affair was his way of defining the coordinates of his designs precisely between bipolar extremes |
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