"... man has still within him sufficient resources to alter the direction of modern civilization, for we then need no longer regard man as the passive victim of his own irreversible technological development."
Most architects I know are incapable of spatial thinking, they prefer the monumental as sketched out on a paper napkin. You can't be me, I'm taken
they do like looking at pictures of their own work, as long as every upright is precisely 90 degrees to horizontal.
Not for quite a while now:
The rotating floors idea is fun though - but good luck trying to fix the mechanism when it breaks down.
If it gets a little noisy up there when the wind blows, that's the price you pay for living on the aesthetic bleeding edge.
Many people say that high-performance pieces of engineering are normally aesthetically pleasing, too. When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done. — John M. Keynes
As I've said before, I'd rather have a country run by engineers than lawyers. You can't be me, I'm taken
The one thing Modernism has never been is affordable. Especially not proper Modernism, which isn't like the gawky cheap knock-offs the proles get.
