Profound Opposite Truths in Architecture

You’re Screwing UpThe World

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You’re Screwing UpThe World

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Profound Opposite Truths in Architecture

Maggie Moore AlexanderLily AlexanderCenter for

Environmental Structure

With deepest gratitude to:

Visual Materials CollectionsFrances Loeb LibraryHarvard University

Graduate School of Design

In anticipation of the assistance of

Photo from Library of Congress Detroit Publishing Collection, Call Number LC-D4-3320

Dwelling …[is] more than

shelter.

Places represent

architecture’s share in

truth.Christian Norberg-Shulz

wholeness

living structure

feeling

order

We must learn to see each not-wholeness expanding action (even if minor) as a bomb blast to the world

- Christopher Alexander

Even architects not immune to

the charms of the places

depicted, are loath to pursue

the folksy aesthetic they see

as implied and do not want to

engage with such primitive

construction

- Peter Buchanan

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.

- Nils Bohr

1982

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using architecture as a means of expressing other kinds of formal order

2011

http://www.nytimes.com/1989/11/05/arts/architecture-view-the-museum-that-theory-built.html

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Less the molding of space to solve

a problem than it is the concrete

realization of a theoretical idea.

Not a singular, unified object [ but ] a building that attempts to

move beyond singularity of place to a multiple, dynamic idea

of what enclosure is, what defines inside and outside.

''a building that is waiting to be a building''

1989

1982

1982

2012

https://www.flickr.com/photos/27392505@N00/8560622353

1985

ありがとう

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