A different kind of "blog," consisting of selections from my scribblings over many years. The date of each post is the date I originally wrote that piece. So, the top post is usually not the latest post, because I continually add writings from different years to the blog. If you have visited here before, you are likely to find new posts anywhere on the page. I'll continue to add "new" posts as my time allows.
15 February 2000
Looking
at old buildings in the Rococo style, one sometimes get the feeling that their
ornamentation is somehow inauthentic, that it has been put there to give the
eye something to play with. One purpose
of 20th century architects may have been to introduce more honesty
into architecture. A wall becomes just
the wall. A window becomes just a window. But don’t we need the deception? Don’t we need an architect that makes a
building disguise its function, and pretend to be a work of art?
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