This blog is about used ideas. Nothing new is ever proposed. Heaven forbid. The thoughts herein are re-cycled, re-interpreted, re-mixed, re-hashed, re-viewed… New ideas are both the salvation and scourge of a stable society. This brings me to the comparison with new (aka modern) architecture. So much of it looks great in the original drawings. It is easy to sell, It is new, innovative, uncommon, bursting with energy, and the like. But so much modern architecture just doesn’t play well with the eye upon construction. It just doesn’t have an esthetic geometry. After the eye becomes accustomed to it, the eye says no, "I don’t like it." Moreover, some of it does not age well. It looks worse with age. This is what makes the Frank Lloyd Wright’s of the world so fantastically great. Such architects/artists have aesthetics, geometry, longevity, design, and beauty in mind from the onset. Many channels of the brain are needed to achieve this; difficult to lea
Random thoughts and used ideas