January 2012
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Words of the Day
(all via Wikipedia)
Metaxy: is defined in Plato’s Symposium via the character of the priestess Diotima as the “in-between” or “middle ground”. Other philosophers like political philosopher Eric Voegelin used the term to mean the permanent place where man is in-between two poles of existence. Such as the infinite (Apeiron) and the finite (the divine mind or Nous)...
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“Yet if the only form of tradition, of handing down, consisted in following the...”
– Robert Venturi, quoting T.S. Eliot, Contradiction and Complexity
December 2011
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“We may need to have made an indelible mark on our lives, to have married the...”
– Alain de Botton, The Architecture of Happiness
#The50 Things Every Creative Should Know →
The future of the future →
Watchhellyeahchandlerbing:
See what a group of engineers did to encourage people to use the stairs in Stockholm.
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November 2011
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“The eyebone’s connected to the…shadowbone. Shadowbone’s connected to the…luck...”
– Jack Kerouac, “Visions of Neal: Neal and the Three Stooges, Part II”
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Tons of Zumthor pics →
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October 2011
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Coffee with an Architect →
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