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fromArchDaily
6 days ago

When Architects Design Time: Tadao Ando and the Meaning of Youth

Tadao Ando designed a green apple-shaped watch for Cauny's Architects of Time Series, symbolizing youth as a lifelong attitude rather than a life stage, inspired by Samuel Ullman's poem.
fromThe New Yorker
4 months ago

Why Trump Tore Down the East Wing

We are creatures of symbols, and our architecture tells us who we are. John Ruskin, the greatest of architectural critics, observed that a nation writes its history in many books, but that the book of its buildings is the most enduring. The faith in order and proportion embodied in the Alhambra, the romance of modernity caught in the Eiffel Tower's lattice of iron-these are not ideas imposed on buildings but ideals that the buildings themselves express, more lastingly than words can.
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