Facts are public and unimpeachable, values are private and gratuitous. There is an obvious dif- ference between recounting a fact, such as 'This cathedral wasbuilt in 1612,' and registering a value-judgement, such as 'This cathedral is amagnificent specimen of baroque architecture.' But suppose I made the first kind of statement while showing an overseas visitor around England, and found that it puzzled her considerably. Why, she might ask, do you keep telling me the dates of the foundation of all these buildings? Why this obsession with origins? In the society I live in, she might go on, we keep no record at all of such events: we classify our buildings instead according to whether they face north-west or south-east. What this might do would be to demonstrate part of the unconscious system of value-judgements which underlies my own descriptive statements. Such value-judgements are not necessarily of the same kind as 'This cathedral is a magnificent specimen of baroque architec- ture,' but they are value-judgements none the less, and no factual pro- nouncement I make can escape them.
Sayfa 11
“Zaten bir yapıyı muhafaza etmenin en iyi yolu, o yapıya bir amaç bulmak ve bu amacın gerektirdiği bütün gereksinimleri değişikliğe mahal vermemecesine karşılamaktır. (...) Benzer koşullarda, en iyisi ilk mimarın yerine kendimizi koymak, eğer yeniden dünyaya gelseydi ve bizim önümüze konan programlar onun önüne konsaydı o ne yapardı diye düşünmektir.”
Viollet-le-Duc,
Dictionnaire raisonné de l'architecture française
(Fransız Mimarisinin Açıklamalı Sözlüğü), “Restorasyon” maddesi
" ... a lot of Hollywood architecture seems to have been designed to look good in a photograph rather than to keep out the rain. "
Sayfa 55 - COUNTERPOINTKitabı okudu
Açık Ağ Mimarisi (Alm. offene Netzwerkarchitektur, f; Fr. architecture de réseaux ouverts, f; İng. ONA; opennetwork architecture) blşm. İnternet gibi bütün kullanıcılara ve katma hizmet sağlayıcılarına erişim olanağı
sağlayan ağ mimarisi.
Just before the Greek conquest Imhotep became honored as a great healer and when the Greeks governed the country they equated him to their healing god Asklepios. The Romans honored Imhotep as a god, who knew architecture, interpreted divinatory signs, and helped the ill, infertile, and pregnant. His fame was so great that Arab scholars of the Middle Ages still referred to him as a sage.
By then she had deter-mined that the background of her book would be architecture, the perfect melding of art, science, and business. With the help of librarians at the New York Public Library she developed an extensive reading list on architecture, filling several notebooks with details that would color her novel. As with her earlier work, she also wrote extensive notes on the theme, the goal, and the intention of the project she called “Second-Hand Lives.”
Sayfa 41
“Forty generations with their imprinted memories, secrets, and scandals. All carried away by the notion of entitlement of another people, who would settle in vacancy and proclaim it all- all that was left in the way of architecture, orchards, wells, flowers, and charm.”
