Architecture 101 (Part 1)

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An adventure in time and space

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Week 2

An adventure in time and space

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There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

(Aldous Huxley

It is the empty space which makes the wheel useful.

Mold clay to form a bowl; It is the empty space which makes the bowl useful.

Cut out windows and doors; It is the empty space which makes the room useful.

(Lao Tzu)

The poet doesn’t invent. He listens.

(Jean Cocteau)

Follow your inner moonlight; don’t hide the madness.

Allen Ginsberg

Week 3

An adventure in time and space

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The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

Isaac Asimov

You’ve got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down Ray Bradbury

I do not fear computers.

I fear the lack of them. I saac Asimov

The world was in his mind, not outside.

What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.

Antoine de St-Exupéry’

If you’re in a forest, the quality of the echo is very strange because echoes back off so many surfaces of all those trees that you get this strange, itchy ricochet effect.

Brian Eno

Stealing things is a glorious occupation, particularly in the art world.

Malcolm McLaren

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportions.

Francis Bacon

It’s not the destination that matters.

It’s the change of scene.

Brian Eno

I don’t paint things.

I only paint the difference between things.

There are always flowers for those who want to see them Henri Matisse

Week 4

An adventure in time and space

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Life is pleasant.

Death is peaceful.

It’s the transition that’s troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

You will learn that no one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.

(Bob Dylan)

Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move, Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

Because, the sun is new each day.

(Heraclitus)

Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.

(Roger Miller) Some people feel the rain others just get wet.

Bob Marley’ That sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

(John Ruskin)

My business is to paint what I see, not what I know is there.

Painting is a strange business.

J.M.W. Turner.

Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

Buddha

Week 5

An adventure in time and space

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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.

William S. Burroughs A name. A name.

Giving something a name can be just the same as inventing it.

By naming something you create a difference.

You say that this is now real.

Names are very important.

Brian Eno In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first.

Jimi Hendrix

You gotta have a body.

The body says what words cannot .

Jayne Mansfield

One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

Henry Miller Everything starts from a dot.

Wassily Kandinsky

If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It takes more than just a good looking body.

You’ve got to have the heart and soul to go with it.

Epictetus The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.

Thomas A. Edison

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

Abraham Lincoln) Either abstract space i s adapted in deference to natural man and transformed back into nature or the imitation of nature‌ Or natural man, in deference to abstract space, is recast to fit its mold.

This happens in the abstract stage.

Oskar Schlemmer

Week 6

An adventure in time and space

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A dot is a line that went for a walk.

Paul Klee

In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.

William S. Burroughs I do tend to take lines from other lines I like, and then write around them.

Syd Barrett

You can’t criticize geometry. It’s never wrong.

Paul Rand There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.

Pythagoras

Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.

Henri Poincare

Human behaviour flows from three main sources: desire, emotion and knowledge.

Plato

No man is an island.

John Donne

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This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

Henry David Thoreau

Everything you’ve learned in school as “obvious” becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe.

For example, there are no solids in the universe.

There’s not even a suggestion of a solid.

There are no absolute continuums.

There are no surfaces.

There are no straight lines.

R. Buckminster Fuller