The picket fence There was a fence with spaces you could look through if you wanted to. An architect who saw this thing stood there one summer evening. Took out the spaces with great care and built a castle in the air. The fence was utterly dumbfounded, each post stood there with nothing round it. Christian Morgenstern, The Art of Looking Sideways www.andrew.cmu.edu spacearchitectureabsurdity
What the brick really wants. Michael Sorkin, Two Hundred Fifty Things an Architect Should Know The material finds the right objectWe are working against the grain of the woodThe joy of the humble brick material