“A shape is nothing but a sum of limited views, and the consciousness of a shape is a collective entity.”
- Maurice Merleau-Ponty
“In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.”
- Edgar Allan Poe
“Sexuality is the key to the problem of the psychoneuroses and of the neuroses in general. No one who disdains the key will ever be able to unlock the door.”
- Sigmund Freud
Building: Maastunnel, Rotterdam, 1937 | Arch.’s: J.P. van Bruggen, Ad van der Steur | Photo: 2012
“A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.”
- Albert Einstein
“In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.”
- Simone de Beauvoir
Building: NTT Shinjuku Head Office Building, Tokyo 1990 | Arch.: César Pelli | Photo: 2009
“You may get the bends if you go up or down too fast. Around 150 stories, that may start happening. We don’t know yet. You could pressurize whole buildings, but I don’t think people want to live in a sealed building.”
- César Pelli
Building: Yoyogi National Gymnasium, 1961 | Arch.: Kenzo Tange | Photo: 2009
“There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart.”
- Kenzo Tange
Building: Britz Siedlung, Berlin, 1925 | Arch.: Bruno Taut | Photo: 2011
“Focusing our experience gaze on our psychic life necessarily takes places as reflection, as a turning about of a glance which had previously been directed elsewhere, Every manner in which we occupy ourselves with any real or ideal objects … Through reflection, instead of grasping the matter straight-out - the values, goals, and instrumetatilities - we grasp the corresponding subjective experiences in which we become ‘conscious’ of them, in which (in the broadest sense) they ‘appear’. For this reason, they are called ‘phenomena’.”
- Edmund Husserl, in ‘Phenomenology’
“And if anything should go wrong, there’s soma.”
- Aldoux Huxley, Brave New World, Ch16
