An architecture where you don't have to choose between public or private, dense or open, urban or suburban, atheist or Muslim, affordable flats of football fields. An architecture allows you to say yes to all aspects of human life, no matter how contradicting!
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Architectural poetry in the variety and excitement of cityscapes that are the creation of individual private entrepreneurs.
Sacred and Terrible Smell
What was that sacred and terrible, elusive smell in the air this time? My name is Ambrosius Saint-Miro, the locals call me “Ambrosius Pyhä-Mirä” and in Graad they call me “Svjata-Mira”. “Diduska?” they ask, their eyes wide with affection, but I answer them: “No. I am not your diduska.” I am Ambrosius Santa-Mira from Mesque, Ambrosio Hagiamira, I
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Öyleyse, bir yapıyı inşa ederken onu sonsuza dek yaşayacakmış gibi inşa ettiğimizi düşünelim ... Bu öylesine bir yapıt olsun ki torunlarımız bize şükran duysunlar; bu yüzden taş üstüne taş koyarken, şöyle düşünelim, gün gelecek, insanlar bu emeğe ve çıkarılan işe bakacaklar ve “Bak! İşte bunu babalarımız bizim için yaptı,” diyecekler.
John Ruskin, The Seven Lamps of Architecture,1849
Sayfa 193
“It’s our memory of the unattained and something greater that leads us to construct architecture. But at the same time, architecture is the house of all our memories.”
Geopolitical architecture in an age of intense globalization
The implications for geopolitics are profound. On the one hand,
the ending of the cold war witnessed new states and regional
organizations such as Slovenia and the Commonwealth of
Independent States (CIS) respectively.
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Antiquity had been a civilization of ‘To render accessible to a multitude of men the inspection of a small number of objects’: this was the problem to which the architecture of temples, theatres and circuses responded.
The modern age poses the opposite problem: ‘To procure for a small number, or even for a single individual, the instantaneous view of a great multitude.’
