Friday, 1 April 2011

A MACHINE FOR LIVING IN




"In modern architecture, every day is April Fool's Day" -David Brussat

(What's "modern" anyway? Oh, nevermind.) 
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4 comments:

  1. Øyvind Holmstad2 April 2011 at 16:47

    The work of Nikos Salingaros shines a light on the instinctive workings of every human’s internal architecture critic. His explanation of why certain buildings and places speak to our hearts illuminates much of our old assumptions about taste. With Nikos as our guide, we see through the invisibility of the emperor’s new clothes, and we laugh (or cry) all the harder at the JOKE played on mankind by modern architecture.

    See:

    http://www.bod.de/index.php?id=296&objk_id=354912

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  2. -_-_-_-_-_-7 April 2011 at 17:29

    I think most of us are born with the ability to see through the illusions, but we CHOOSE to close our eyes (or not). So why bother to wake up those who WANTS to sleep through their whole life?

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  3. Øyvind Holmstad21 April 2011 at 21:34

    I would rather say that most people prefere to follow majority's opinions through their whole life, because it's definitely most comfortable; Cognitive Dissonance and Non-adaptive Architecture: Seven Tactics for Denying the Truth :

    http://permaculture.org.au/2011/02/09/cognitive-dissonance-and-non-adaptive-architecture-seven-tactics-for-denying-the-truth/

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  4. Øyvind Holmstad22 April 2011 at 08:22

    Here is another interesting read about cognitive disonnance ; Communicating energy issues: a psychological perspective :

    http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2011-04-21/communicating-energy-issues-psychological-perspective

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