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Vermeer – portrait of a woman – weighing gold on a pair of scales – Dutch middle class home – as one looks further the painting becomes mysterious – a moment of face, scales, pearls preserved, unrepeatable – she is holding the moment. Is about the mystery of light and time, not affluence

Jan Vermeer, Woman Holding a Balance (ca. 1664)

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mültecilik

Uçaktan inip havalimanına ayak bastığında eve varmış hissedersin. Arabana binip Pendik’e vardığında evine yaklaşmışsındır. Sitene vardığında eve daha yaklaşmışsındır. Dairene girdiğinde, odana girdiğinde evine gelmiş hissedersin. Yatağında da bunun merkezi olur. 

hayvan olduğun hiçbir yerde yalnız hissetmezsin.

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Ski resort design in context in Flaine by Marcel Breuer of the Bauhaus

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I almost had to go right back to the beginning, and work my way back up. And that’s one of the reasons why studying was so important to me, and also why the avenues I’ve been exploring have come from a really truthful place. Stepping back has been hard, but it’s also been the most rewarding thing I could have done. I’m learning to let go of what other people think, and have also just been clarifying things in my own head.  - Weirdly, the exposure that I had made me feel like there was so much more to learn. At film school we’d have discussions about film sets and I’d think—well I know what a film set is like. But then another kid might have read every single theory book and sat at home watching every single movie reel, and I’d realize there was so much I didn’t know. With my directing work, I’ve learned most by actually doing. I spoke with some established directors about whether I should do my master’s, or keep making short films and learn that way. They said, you know what? Just keep making, just keep doing. - To be completely honest, I only make my work for the people who I respect the opinions of. If they respond positively and are into it, that means more to me than anything else. Sometimes none of it matters, what you’ve done or what your experience is. It often just comes down to your character. One of the most rewarding and inspiring things I’ve learned through working with people at the top of their game—screenwriters, directors, actors—is that everyone is who is really good at what they do is really nice. That the best in their field have integrity. -Knowledge is power -You don't need permission -Take it, go after it, ask for it

Bonnie Wright

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I think for a long time, I was looking for someone to tell me I was allowed to do different things. So often, we’re looking around for people’s approval. People to say, you can have this job opportunity. You can be in this room. You can come to this party. We’re always thinking, did I say the right thing? Do I look OK? Is my work good? You don’t have to be looking around all the time.

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Washed away Instagram.com/erubes1

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I dont want to fix nature, I don’t want to frame nature. Nature is life, and always, always changing.

Kengo Kuma

KNOWING KUMA (2013)

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Reitveld Pavilion, Gerrtit Reitveld, 1954

KROLLER MULLER MUSEM (2015)

Sonsbeek Park, in Arnhem, Holland, is one of the loveliest places I have ever visited. A vast nature preserve to be navigated on one of a zillion available bicycles, with a modern art gallery and sculpture garden at its heart, including a cinderblock pavilion by Gerrit Reitveld.

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re: production design, as bridget would say

I really like production design. I like how they have imagined these places that are described in the books and make them real for the film production. I wish i could go crazy wild, doing concept art that involves architecture. Although taking up work in a practice is great and all, and i want to learn how to build actual houses. But i also want to create things that are not real at all. Or there are concepts and inklings of them but there is no need for them in real life so they would not be actually built. I would have loved to design actual models and have worlds to live in and animate. I wish i knew Rhino and other space creating programmes really well so i could create such environments. And then i could put them on behance, take renders etc. I would have loved to create worlds The most interesting thing to me right now are castles. But also little old rustic buildings used to conjur things and boil potions and I am really attracted to anthropology and archaeology. I find it fascinating how each function has found its use in details and scale in an inhabitable space. How this has happened with very small touches by every newcomer to a profession or deed, how each little tilt and shake and adjustment has brought about a custom-made solution to a need, in the general scheme of things. I find it fascinating, indeed. It would have been marvellous if i were given leave to read and research something, and come up with a tailored solution to it, and design a inducive environment that, say, transports the visitor to the time of the Urartu's, or the Byzantine's, or etc. It would primarily be touristic, of course, but it would have culture in it, as well as education and an other worldly experience. The production design of Lord of the Rings always baffled and interested me. Harry Potter's production design is also interesting. It would be cool to read about the Urartus and how they wore their dresses, what kind of dwellings they had, how and where they found and prepared their food. Reading about anthropology would be interesting. Archaeology of Turkey, of England, the normans. Vikings perhaps. What would architectural theory books teach me? What have they deduced from the inception of necessity and communal shaping of spaces? Does theory delve into this?

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TOP TEN COOLEST STAINED GLASS WINDOWS AROUND THE WORLD

1. Sainte-Chapelle - Paris, France

2. Richland Center - Wisconsin, United States

3. Grossmünster Cathedral - Zurich, Switzerland

4.  Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision - Hilversum, Netherlands

5. The Washington National Cathedral - Washington D.C., United States

6.  Mapparium Building - Boston, United States

7. Chapel of Thanksgiving - Dallas, United States

8.  La Sagrada Familia - Barcelona, Spain

9. Erawan Museum - Samut Prakan, Thailand

10.  Metropolitan Cathedral of Saint Sebastian - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Requested by evellokosetsu. Thanks, dude, this list was a ton of fun to make.

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Write

Once you receive your project proposal and goals you are instructed to meet, write your thoughts down immediately. Write your initial judgments down about how you can reach these goals. From here you can start to combine your thoughts into one concept.

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We often like to publish student projects, where we find the most speculative and interesting ideas in architecture today, as seen in Lost in the Line or Reconnecting geometry of journey. This time we found the work of Moon Joo Lee, student from the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planningand who has Perry Kulperas his thesis advisor. The project is called the Slaughterhouse Event and we can start quoting Bernard Tschumiwhen he wrote:

“Program” is to be distinguished form ‘event’. A program is a determinate set of expected occurrences, a list of required utilities, often based on social behavior, habit, or custom. In contrast, events occur as an indeterminate set of unexpected outcomes. Revealing hidden potentialities or contradictions in a program, and relating them to a particularly appropriate (or possibly exceptional) spatial configuration, may create conditions for unexpected events to occur. For example, one may combine or assemble programmed activities so that they charge a spatial configuration in such a way that, by mixing otherwise common or predictable programmatic items.

Moon Joo work focuses on the conventional and functional programmatic structure in architecture, that has been ignoring users in space. He said: “The user has been limited to be expected and predictable and this has often turned architecture into a passive ‘object’ and ‘space’ conflicting with users.”