.AnywhErE bUt hErE.: why architecture?

Thursday, August 6, 2009

why architecture?

I'm am on the path to potentially becoming an architect.

but sometimes when I see Architects speak (commercially, and with a lot of bullshit), I have to ask myself again whether this is really what I want... Is it really possible to achieve what architecture should righteously be and doing so selflessly?

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saeranAugust 11, 2009 at 10:48 AM
hey fernie,

I think your angst is a good sign, means the profession hasn't crushed your integrity, (yet).

Anyway, your last statement is unspecific. What should architecture be doing?
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Metamorphosis Of Narcissus (1937)

Narcissus,
in his immobility,
absorbed by his reflection with the digestive slowness of carnivorous plants,
becomes invisible.
There remains of him only the hallucinatingly white oval of his head,
his head again more tender,
his head, chrysalis of hidden biological designs,
his head held up by the tips of the water's fingers,
at the tips of the fingers
of the insensate hand,
of the terrible hand,
of the mortal hand
of his own reflection.
When that head slits
when that head splits
when that head bursts,
it will be the flower,
the new Narcissus,
Gala - my narcissus

currently consuming

(b) "Bible"
(b) "Atmosphere"
(b) "A Spot of Bother"
(d) "True Blood"
(m) "G@me"
done... (b) "The Lost Symbol"
done... (b) "The Reader"
done... (b) "The Tipping Point"
done... (b) "Witch of Portebello"
done... (b) "那拉的森林"
done... (d) "おせん" Osen
done... (d) "天使情人" Angel Lover
done... (d) "女帝" Jotei
done... (m) "Departures"
done... (m) "ただ、君を愛してる" Tada, kimi wo aishiteru
done... (m) "ハチミツとクローバー" Honey and Clover
done... (m) "東京少年" Tokyo Shounen
done... (m) "그 남자의 책 198쪽" Heartbreak Library
done... (m) "내 머리 속의 지우개" A Moment to Remember"
done... (m) "친절한 금자씨" Sympathy for Lady Vengeance
done... (m) "키친" The Naked Kitchen
done... (m) Angels and Demons
done... (m) Horseman
on-hold... (b) "House of Falling Leaves"
on-hold... (b) "Mr. Norell & Jonathan Strange"
on-hold... (b) "Snow Falling on Cedars"
on-hold... (b) "The Zahir"
on-hold... (m) "Manufactured Landscapes"
on-hold... (m) "おくりびと" Departures
done... (m) Angels and Demons
done... (m) Angels and Demons
done... (m) Horseman

i want to mentally consume:

(b) "Gilgamesh"
(b) "Mahabharata"
(b) "Njaals Saga"
(b) "The Book of Job"
(b) "Thousand and One Nights"
(b) Albert Camus "The Stranger"
(b) Alfred Doblin "Berlin Alexanderplatz"
(b) Anton P Chekhov "Selected Stories"
(b) Astrid Lindgren “Pippi Longstocking”
(b) Charles Dickens "Great Expectations"
(b) Dante Alighieri "The Divine Comedy"
(b) Denis Diderot "Jacques the Fatalist and His Master"
(b) DH Lawrence “Sons and Lovers”
(b) Doris Lessing “The Golden Notebook”
(b) Edgar Allan Poe “The Complete Tales”
(b) Elsa Morante “History”
(b) Emily Bronte "Wuthering Heights "
(b) Ernest Hemingway “The Old Man and the Sea”
(b) Euripides, “ Medea”
(b) Federico Garcia Lorca “Gypsy Ballads”
(b) Fernando Pessoa “The Book of Disquiet”
(b) Francois Rabelais “Gargantua and Pantagruel”
(b) Franz Kafka “The Complete Stories; The Trial; The Castle Bohemia”
(b) Fyodor M Dostoyevsky "Crime and Punishment; The Idiot; The Possessed; The Brothers Karamazov"
(b) Gabriel Garcia Marquez “ One Hundred Years of Solitude; Love in the Time of Cholera”
(b) Geoffrey Chaucer "Cantebury Tales"
(b) George Eliot "Middlemarch"
(b) George Orwell “1984”
(b) Giacomo Leopardi “Complete Poems”
(b) Giovanni Boccaccio "Decameron"
(b) Gunter Grass “The Tin Drum”
(b) Gustave Flaubert, France “ Madame Bovary; A Sentimental Education”
(b) Halldor K Laxness “Independent People”
(b) Hans Christian Andersen "Fairy Tales and Stories"
(b) Herman Melville “Moby Dick”
(b) Homer “The Iliad and The Odyssey”
(b) Italo Svevo “Confessions of Zeno”
(b) Jalal ad-din Rumi “Mathnawi”
(b) James Joyce “Ulysses”
(b) Joao Guimaraes Rosa “The Devil to Pay in the Backlands”
(b) Jonathan Swift “ Gulliver's Travels”
(b) Jorge Luis Borges "Collected Fictions "
(b) Jose Saramago “Blindness”
(b) Joseph Conrad "Nostromo"
(b) Juan Rulfo “Pedro Paramo”
(b) Kalidasa “The Recognition of Sakuntala”
(b) Knut Hamsun “Hunger”
(b) Laurence Sterne “The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy”
(b) Leo Tolstoy “ War and Peace” “Anna Karenina” “The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories”
(b) Louis-Ferdinand Celine "Journey to the End of the Night "
(b) Lu Xun “Diary of a Madman and Other Stories”
(b) Marcel Proust “Remembrance of Things Past”
(b) Marguerite Yourcenar “Memoirs of Hadrian”
(b) Mark Twain “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”
(b) Michel de Montaigne “Essays.”
(b) Miguel de Cervantese Saavedra "Don Quixote"
(b) Naguib Mahfouz “Children of Gebelawi”
(b) Nikolai Gogol “Dead Souls”
(b) Nikos Kazantzakis “Zorba the Greek”
(b) Ovid “Metamorphoses”
(b) Paul Celan "Poems"
(b) Ralph Ellison “Invisible Man”
(b) Robert Musil “The Man Without Qualities”
(b) Salman Rushdie “Midnight's Children”
(b) Samuel Beckett "Trilogy: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable"
(b) Sheikh Musharrif ud-din Sadi “The Orchard”
(b) Shikibu Murasaki “The Tale of Genji Genji”
(b) Sophocles “Oedipus the King”
(b) Stendhal “The Red and the Black”
(b) Tayeb Salih “Season of Migration to the North”
(b) Thomas Mann “Buddenbrook” “The Magic Mountain”
(b) Toni Morrison “Beloved”
(b) Valmiki “Ramayana”
(b) Virgil “The Aeneid”
(b) Virginia Woolf “Mrs. Dalloway” “To the Lighthouse”
(b) Vladimir Nabokov “Lolita”
(b) Walt Whitman “Leaves of Grass”
(b) William Faulkner “Absalom, Absalom; The Sound and the Fury”
(b) William Shakespeare “King Lear” “Othello”
(b) Yasunari Kawabata “The Sound of the Mountain”
(m) "她。Just Do It" "不完全戀人" "母老虎飛飛飛" "十七歲的天空"
(m) Broken Flowers
(m) Dance, Subaru!
(m) Surveillance
(m) Trainspotting
(m) Wall-E