tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6531343.post2006963127244016964..comments2024-03-27T06:24:30.922-04:00Comments on A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books: Literary Dose #1John Hillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14842328320680692310noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6531343.post-88250290881349091512007-04-05T22:11:00.000-04:002007-04-05T22:11:00.000-04:00I would like to offer one brief meditation inspire...I would like to offer one brief meditation inspired by this reading.<BR/><BR/>You think you own whatever land you land on. The Earth is just a dead thing you can claimn, but I know every rock and tree and creature has a life, has a spirit, has a name.<BR/><BR/>Come run the hidden pine trails of the forest. Come taste the sunsweet berries of the Earth. Come roll in all the riches all around you And for once, never wonder what they're worth<BR/><BR/>Have you ever heard the wolf cry to the blue corn moon Or asked the grinning bobcat why he grinned?<BR/>Can you sing with all the voices of the mountains? Can you paint with all the colors of the wind?<BR/>Can you paint with all the colors of the wind?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6531343.post-24089685050051108842007-04-04T10:35:00.000-04:002007-04-04T10:35:00.000-04:00we can live anywhere we want, however, we should n...we can live anywhere we want, however, we should not live within the four walls we built; we should learn to live in the environment we chose to build our houses in. why is inside-outside spatial relationship important? so that we can be aware of what our environment needs, it is not a one-way street.michellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09748513461693891262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6531343.post-1286321033561310432007-04-03T19:47:00.000-04:002007-04-03T19:47:00.000-04:00McKibben's thesis in his book is that modern intak...McKibben's thesis in his book is that modern intake of information is at the expense of information about our immediate place in the world, information gained by direct experience with it, and these counter-examples illustrate different ways of thinking that leads to different ways of making. Developer intent in most cases leads to buildings and urban patterns that require greater energy to produce and maintain, and potentially placing a greater burden on the immediate landscape than, say, the mill. In both cases there's a (negative) impact on the environment, because <I>any</I> building/development will have one. But if the designer has the knowledge to make less of an impact over more, than hopefully that path is at least considered, a difficult proposition when the developer's angling to make a quick buck or frame a view rather than interact/use the natural features of a site, like the mill. I hope I'm not falling into a "good 'ol days" kinda person, as I still love contemporary architecture; I think there's just things like this that need to be thought about and discussed.John Hillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14842328320680692310noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6531343.post-81151887603932168472007-04-03T18:42:00.000-04:002007-04-03T18:42:00.000-04:00if i wrote a book, and i am certainly not qualifie...if i wrote a book, and i am certainly not qualified to do that!, i would title it "the mountains are laughing" ... the book would be a metaphoric response to how even the most holistic, contemporary architecture is so temporary and overly enamored with the "good old days" I can't help but be the cynic and ask what difference does developer intent make? Are we really so easily convinced that a mill on a river was/is not irresponsible or didn't have some kind of negative contribution to the waste stream?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6531343.post-82358146407127384172007-04-03T16:57:00.000-04:002007-04-03T16:57:00.000-04:00It's also not a stretch that we may snap out of ou...It's also not a stretch that we may snap out of our limited thinking about place -- especially its ecology -- as more and more natural "occurrences" give us pause as to what we're doing. I don't mean to get doomsday or anything, but natural process needs to somehow re-enter the equation when it comes to development and I'm not sure how else it's gonna happen. Sustainable architecture certainly helps when done right (meaning not when it's "greenwashed") but that's a very small percentage of what's being done, as so much dev't is SOS.John Hillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14842328320680692310noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6531343.post-73577338053779488202007-04-03T13:21:00.000-04:002007-04-03T13:21:00.000-04:00It makes you think, how "developed" is the develop...It makes you think, how "developed" is the developed world... I was re-reading Aldo Rossi's architecture of the city and thinking more or less the same thing, that we've lost an attachment to the uniqueness of each place. Everything now works under the logic of money and profit, and we "developers" aren't thinking about much else...Victorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16447303582345430076noreply@blogger.com