ART Condos Goes Green For St. Patrick’s Day!

Art Condos–which was designed from the beginning to be a Green building–has now turned temporarily even greener, to serve as a St. Patrick’s Day greeting to all of our Irish friends and to the honorary Irish everywhere– which surely includes …

Aphorism of the Week – Sweater is a Hug…

“The primal form of all dwelling is not a house but a case. This bears the imprint of its dweller.”

-Walter Benjamin…

It doesn’t matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.”

-Elias Canetti…

“A poem is a poem, a building is a building, architecture is architecture, music is…it’s all structure. Essential. I use it as language.”

– Architect and theorist John Hejduk.…

As Andrea Branzi writes in his book, Learning from Milan, “we live in a megasystem of furnishings and fittings, within a gigantic lightscape, in a wired-up territory in which an infinity of terminals are linked together, like an all-embracing

According to Italian architect and designer, Andrea Branzi, the city is “a permanent contradiction,” a “stable chaos.”

“Consider this: all the ants on the planet, taken together, have a biomass greater than that of humans.  Ants have been incredibly industrious for millions of years. Yet their productiveness nourishes plants, animals and soil. Human industry has been in

“It seems to me that architecture is radiated by the building and does not clothe it, that it is an aroma rather than a drapery; an integral party of it and not a shell.”

Le Corbusier…

“I am enthusiastic over humanity’s extraordinary and sometimes very timely ingenuities. If you are in a shipwreck and all the boats are gone, a piano top buoyant enough to keep you afloat that comes along makes a fortuitous life preserver.

“You can design a car so that every time you get in it,
 it’s a relief–you have a little vacation for a while.”
                     

Automobile Designer Harley Earl

It ought to be the same with a condo.…

“Power is everywhere; not because it embraces everything, but because it comes from everywhere.”

Michel Foucaul

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“How one walks  through the world, the endless small adjustments of balance, is affected by the shifting weights of beautiful things.” 

Elaine Scarry, On Beauty and Being Just, Princeton University Press, 1999, p.15…

“Science is a hamper which is being filled with things and more things that no one can manage until Art puts handles on the hamper and takes from it exactly what is necessary to perform the deed.”

Antonio Gaudi…

“The perfection of architecture is frozen music.”

Lord Byron
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“If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house [or condo!], I should say the house shelters daydreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.”

Gaston Bachelard, from The Poetics of …