Waiting around to write A Quote by Gertrude Stein subtlemaneuvers.substack.com If you write a half hour a day it makes a lot of writing year by year. To be sure all day and every day you are waiting around to write that half hour a day. writingcreativity
The inhumanity of contemporary architecture The inhumanity of contemporary architecture and cities can be understood as the consequence of the neglect of the body and the senses, and an imbalance in our sensory system. The art of the eye has certainly produced imposing and thought-provoking structures, but it has not facilitated human rootedness in the world. Modernist design at large has housed the intellect and the eye, but it has left the body and the other senses, as well as our memories, imagination and dreams, homeless. Juhani Pallasmaa, The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses 1º2º3º4º architecturesensesmodernism