body
The tacit wisdom of the body
A simple pleasure that comes from just using it
Eternity was in our lips and eyes
Half-winged, half-imprisoned
(an architectural stem cell that might transform itself into any organ for living)
We have turned our faces towards the future
In our bodies
The same material as the sun
A Brief Rant
The body image
Ruins, Rub-outs, and Trash
Tracing paper into palimpsest
So insufficiently palimpsestic
I worry that unlike Kahn's process and tools, the processes and tools we use are aimed at helping us satisfy the demand for moving fast and breaking things, not to be good, or to better ensure the doing of good work.
My son Gerrit told me about a YouTube video from a conference where the presenter asked for a show of hands from video game developers in the audience who could produce or successfully compile their own code from the previous quarter. Or from the previous year. Or from two years ago. And by that time the point had been made: nobody had their hand in the air.
Good for the next man
Lou Kahn said that a house is only good if it's good for "the next man."
He knew that the likelihood of its spaces and places continuing to be loved after "the first man" has come and gone requires the kinds of attention to detail you'd have to be paying if the next man and the next-next man were embraced as stakeholders from the onset.