[monokuromu]

“A shape is nothing but a sum of limited views, and the...

konranshita — Tue, 15 May 2012 20:40:35 -0400

“A shape is nothing but a sum of limited views, and the consciousness of a shape is a collective entity.”

- Maurice Merleau-Ponty

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible...

konranshita — Tue, 08 May 2012 17:46:29 -0400

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”

- Edgar Allan Poe

“In a night, or in a day,In a vision, or in none,Is it...

konranshita — Tue, 08 May 2012 17:28:46 -0400

“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...

konranshita — Mon, 07 May 2012 16:35:59 -0400

“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...

konranshita — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 20:35:15 -0400

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...

konranshita — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 19:32:57 -0400

“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.:...

konranshita — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 15:34:00 -0400

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 |...

konranshita — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 15:09:00 -0400

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 |...

konranshita — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 12:51:00 -0400

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...

konranshita — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 20:26:29 -0400

“And if anything should go wrong, there’s soma.”

- Aldoux Huxley, Brave New World, Ch16

“Why are there beings at all instead of nothing? That is the...

konranshita — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 19:19:15 -0400

“Why are there beings at all instead of nothing? That is the question. Presumably it is not arbitrary question, “Why are there beings at all instead of nothing”- this is obviously the first of all questions. Of course it is not the first question in the chronological sense […] And yet, we are each touched once, maybe even every now and then, by the concealed power of this question, without properly grasping what is happening to us. In great despair, for example, when all weight tends to dwindle away from things and the sense of things grows dark, the question looms.”

- Martin Heidegger

Building: Mercado do Bom Sucesso, Porto, 1949 | Arch.: ARS...

konranshita — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 18:31:00 -0400

Building: Mercado do Bom Sucesso, Porto, 1949 | Arch.: ARS Arquitectos | Photo: 2008

“On ne peut opposer absraitement le spectacle et l’activité sociale effective.”
― Guy Debord

“A great city is not to be confounded with a populous...

konranshita — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 20:41:00 -0400

“A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.”

- Aristotle

“It is because we are through and through compounded of...

konranshita — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 20:36:00 -0400

“It is because we are through and through compounded of relationships with the world that for us the only way to become aware of the fact is to suspend the resultant activity, to refuse it our complicity…or yet again, to put it ‘out of play’.”

- Merleau-Ponty, Maurice. Phenomenology of Perception. 1945