positive and multiple, difference over uniformity, flows over unities, mobile arrangements over systems.
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Mother is mother to all
It is not our world, whole and complete, but only a part of it. Man is the spectator and actor in this drama, but, as Emerson says, nature bites her lips as she watches the antics of her puppets. Sometime, but this is rare, the doll glances back at the Puppeteer, and they wink at…
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Fragments of the opera
The toaster I had been subjected to this particular opera building for several years now, this mammoth of a ‘toasting machine’ being very hard to miss when one lives in Copenhagen. Sometimes, there are certain objects in the city that all its citizens must confront themselves with; and in their limited power over the ‘whys’…
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Democracy as a value
It is ironic how we regard democracy as an intrinsic value of modern society, yet so little of it exists in how we produce our spaces. Has the architect become a dictator, holding dominion over how our cities, work places, parks and homes are shaped? Design has often been linked to being a tacit knowledge…
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Nature, my father and I
I I was born in the remnants of a great empire that once was, my grandparents subjects of a crown thousands of miles away. I, like most of my generation, was subjected to a very traditional British schooling complete with uniforms, ties and ‘decorum’. In a sense, much of my earlier life was about becoming certain things…
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