:: canopy ::

:: even though my eyes were open they might just as well’ve been
closed :: 2

- it is said that architecture is >1% inspiration, 99%

perspiration<
 1%=architecture is art (building design] – 99%=architecture is
hard work [ie project management, contract management]
- architecture is the visible sign of its culture, architecture
belongs to all society, architecture is a product of its invisible
urbanism
- culture 1% memory, 99% ideology [dogma, etc]
- society 1% dream, 99% social engineering
- urbanism 1% vision, 99% politics

is it possible to separate the art from the perspiration, to separate the

art in architecture from the memory, dream, vision – from its
history, and utopia
isn’t architecture a tangible interface between the intangibles of
memory and the desires of necessities
shouldn’t the architect be dreamer, visionary, politician, digging
deep into his cultural and social memories, at the same time not shy
away from perspiration [aka hard work, or as some might label it: science, technology]
perhaps architecture is an aspect of anthropology [rapaport, house form
and culture], is the concrete manifestation of ekistics [doxiadis {sic}], a

1
::photo by author, guildford, england
2
:: “a whiter shade of pale” procul harum

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pattern-language of symbols [jung, man and his symbols], of abstract
memories [calvino, invisible cities], of utopias, dystopias, nootopias
[institute without boundaries, massive change], is caught in the maelstrom of time
forking perpetually toward innumerable futures [jorge luis borges, the garden of
forking paths], or quite simply is a byproduct of a complex, chaotic
autopoietic system of systems [argument of my thesis, systems restructured
or foundations and strategies towards understanding that which cannot be understood
{one of many possible titles}]

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:: rome = home of the invisible cities of my youth ::
… unknown territory to the west and north …

… unknown territory to the east and south …

:: red line :: most trodden path as a rebelliously happy teen-ager
1 :: pizzeria (long gone)  favorite hang out (street level rooms = for tourists;
cellar :: our existential bohemian universe of immense thoughts)
2 :: brazilian coffee shop (still there)  meeting-place before going to 1
or anywhere else
3 :: # 94 bus-stop :: life-line to home
4 :: hole in the roof
5 :: restaurant (still there?) :: cool place to hang out  plan protests, bump
into famous people, eat best food ever
6 :: high-school buddy’s home  cool place to hang out and listen to rock’n
roll (for some obscure reason his parents never opened their windows onto piazza navona)
7 :: somebody’s acquaintance (whose?) lived here :: spiral staircase up to
roof-top swimming-pool and cat-walk to a gazebo (all three of which were atop somebody
)
else’s property

by the time you have finished reading this, the world will have
irrevocably changed

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