technology thinkers have taken- sees a technology as something largely self-sufficient and fixed in structure, but subject to occasional innovations. but this is true of technologies only if we think of them in the abstract, isolated in the lab, so to speak. "in the wild"-meaning in the real world- a technology rarely is fixed. it constantly changes its architecture, adapts and reconfigures as purposes change and improvements occur."
Sayfa 41 - 2: combination and structureKitabı okudu
En erken metinler den biri olan Henry Wotton'a ait 1624 tarihli The Elements of Architecture [Mimarinin Ögeleri] kitabı, ideal bir kır evin deki yeni odaların konumunu şöyle açıklıyor:
Tüın Çalışma Odaları ve Kütüphaneler doğuda olmalıdır: Çünkü sabah vakti, ilham perisinin dostudur. Pişirme, mayalama, yıkama ve ısı gerektiren benzeri işlere tahsis edilmiş tüm bölme ve odalar güneyde olmalıdır. Mahzen, Kiler, Tereyağlık, Tahıl Ambarı gibi serin ve taze bir ortam gerektiren tüm alanlar kuzeyde olmalıdır. Özellikle sıcak iklimli yerler de, galeriler gibi nazik hareket edilmesi gereken, sürekli aynı ışığı gerektiren tüm yerler de aynı yönde olmalıdır.26
To understand how difficult a leap it was to contradict Euclid, one has to appreciate how deeply entrenched was his description of space. Already in his own, ancient time, Euclid's Elements was a classic. It was a key work in the intellectual revival of the Middle Ages. It was one of the first books printed after the invention of the printing press in 1454, and from 1533 until the eighteenth century it was the only one of all the Greek works to exist as a printed text in the original language. Until the nineteenth century, every work of architecture, the composition in every drawing and every painting, every theory and every equation employed in science were all inherently Euclidean.
Keating listened (Prescott's speech about architecture) in thick contentment. He glanced at the others. There was an attentive silence in the audience; they all liked it as he liked it. He saw a boy chewing gum, a man cleaning his fingernails with the corner of a match folder, a youth stretched out loutishly. That, too, pleased Keating; it was as if they said: We are glad to listen to the sublime, but it's not necessary to be too damn reverent about the sublime.
Sayfa 292Kitabı okudu
"...ölmüş bir ustanın cesareti alınıp, yön vermesi için diğer ellere ve diğer düşüncelere paylaştırılamaz." John Ruskin, The Seven Lamps of Architecture
Sayfa 67 - Restorasyon
Good for the environment can be good for the eyes.
