“... ölmüş bir ustanın cesareti alınıp, yön vermesi için diğer ellere ve diğer düşüncelere paylaştırılamaz. Doğrudan kopyalamaya gelince, bu açıkça imkansız. Yüzeyler bir santim aşınmışken neyi kopyalayabilirsiniz?”
- John Ruskin, The Seven Lamps of Architecture-
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“For me, capturing architecture in watercolor is a quicker and easier way to get the whole structure, volume, ambience, light, and shade at the same time. And most importantly, it is as fun as singing a song along with your favorite music.”
Sayfa 97 - Kumi Matsukawa
The One
Geometry is also the bridge between the One and the Many. When you draw one of its basic figures—a circle, say, or a triangle or regular polygon —you do not copy someone else’s drawing; your model is the abstract ideal of a circle or triangle. It is the perfect form, the unchanging, unmanifest One. Below it are the Many—the expressions of that figure in design, art, and architecture.
With us, our Priests are Administrators of all Business, Art, and Science; Directors of Trade, Commerce, Generalship, Architecture, Engineering, Education, Statesmanship, Legislature, Morality, Theology; doing nothing themselves, they are the Causes of everything worth doing, that is done by others.
if the cleric takes a shit, he might even call this act god's will (:
But that exploration could also heed Albert Einstein’s sage counsel:"If you wish to learn from the theoretical physicist anything about the methods he uses...don’t listen to his words, examine his achievements." The same could well apply to architecture.
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But the grand thing about people was that you could also choose to focus on particular faces, really see them, and find a wealth of stories. So many people with so many lives, each a separate little mystery. Infinite detail, like Pattern. Look close at his fractal lines, and you'd realize each little ridge had an entire architecture of its own. Look close at a given person, and you'd see their uniqueness-see that they didn't quite match whatever broad category you'd first put them in.
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mimarlar tarikatı diyor ki:
None of us were members of any political party, but we projected a politically oriented idealism. We believed that architecture held the answer to many social and political problems.
Sayfa 95 - Ek bilgi: Nakşibendî'den ayrılmalarmış.
At night the city is transformed into a stage.
In cities after dark, street lamps, illuminated doorways and car headlights act like stage lighting. Generally, the quality of light is hard and directional, which creates bright highlights and dark shadows. Add some evening mist and rain-soaked streets and you’ve got yourself a million-dollar film set.
If you’re interested in architecture, use a tripod and a low ISO. If you’re on the lookout for people, travel light and increase your ISO so you can handhold your camera. Flash? Forget it. Let the ambient light do all the work.
şehir perisi.
More than four hundred years after Shakespeare so eloquently dramatized Hamlet's mental anguish, we can reconstruct what must have been going on in his brain -not with the Bard's magical language, but with a model of the brain under chronic stress. The architecture of the brain is literally remodeled under chronic stress. Hamlet didn't stand a chance. When his stress persisted, his cool system, specifically the prefrontal cortex, crucial for problem solving, and the hippocampus, important for memory, began to atrophy. Concurrently, his amygdala, at the core of the hot system, increased excessively in size. This combination of brain changes made self-control and cool thinking impossible. Further, as his stress continued long term, his amygdala went from hypertrophy to atrophy, ultimately preventing normal emotional reactions. No wonder Hamlet was a tragedy.
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But every practising architect knew that this restrictive linearmodel of the
design process flew in the face of all shared experience; the reality of designing did not conform to a predetermined sequence at all but demanded that the designer should skip between various aspects of the problem in any order or at any time, should consider several aspects simultaneously or, indeed, should revisit some aspects in a cyclical process as the problem became more clearly defined.
Sayfa 2 - Moreover, design theorists urged designers to delay as long as possible the creative leap into ‘form-making’ until every aspect of the architectural problem.