before they stuck a concrete university here.

I have a lot of questions about whether any of the web-based tools we are using actually fit the mold of System A. I don’t often feel those spaces as convivial and natural. Behind the artifice of interface lay the reality of code. Is that structure humane? Is it open, sustainable, and regenerative? Does it feel good? Does the whole idea behind code generate System A or System B? I really don’t know.

Marcin and Laura joined me on Thursday to talk about translating CLAVIER into their local cultures. They helped me, we are helping each other attempt to make that translation.

whatever force is absorbed by the machine is deducted from the result.

composition, even the most poetical, is nothing arts is observed, even during the most polished but a chain of propositions and reasonings

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Standard of Taste

Norms, have long inhabited the architect’s toolset

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