Mound, hearth, enclosure, roof, and column. The way we see it, Gottfried Semper and scholars already figured out what makes honest tectonic form. We're looking for the element that satisfies our primitive urge to value architecture that's good.

June 8th 2011

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Architecture Isn’t Fun Anymore
by: Duo Dickinson AIA
at: architecture boston

Posted at 8:59am and tagged with: architecture, words, essay, boston, fun, architects,.

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Somewhere along the way we seem to have lost our sense of humor about ourselves. Many drank the Kool-Aid of couture eyewear and embraced an aesthetic vision untroubled by context, craft, or cost, and maybe it’s time we just got over ourselves and lightened up a bit.
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