Richard Sennett Capitalism and the City (via varnelis) TIME.com: How to Get Smarter, One Breath at a Time ‘…Scientists find that meditation not only reduces stress but also reshapes the brain…’ (link to previous entry on meditation) (taken from my del.icio.us. linklog, broadcast using deloxom)
More on Gordon Cullen’s Townscape: My 4 year old son has three modes of operation: drawing, climbing and watching TV. That’s it. There are no others. The first two are easily explained by the science of genetics, the third less so, but I write that having spent the last 4 hours mesmerised by my PC …
Log – the anyone corporation magazine ‘…In the public eye, architecture has become media stars parading their newest fashions, which verges on entertainment. Yet when architecture is truly political, it has a social purpose and a transformative potential…’ (taken from my del.icio.us. linklog, broadcast using deloxom)
Buildings that rock: Architectural dream no.[series summation]* To make a building as satisfying to experience on every level – from the minutest detail to the sum of the whole – as Jimi Hendrix’s Little Wing. The feel of the door handles could be sensed from a mile away. It’s place in the urban grain would …
29fragiledays: Berlin holocaust memorial Vodcast entry from between the blocks of the holocaust memorial Telegram from Aalto: Institute Archives & Special Collections: MIT ‘…just unable to produce enough architectural philosophy you may publish this telegramletter as a substitute stop…’ via lewism (taken from my del.icio.us. linklog, broadcast using deloxom)
From the top: Seneca: On the Shortness of Life Deleuze and Guattari: A Thousand Plateaus Giedion: Architecture, You and Me Pevsner Architecture Guide: Birmingham Iain Banks: The Algebraist Dostoyevsky: Notes from the Underground and The Double Sven Lindqvist: A History of Bombing Kevin MacNeil: The Stornaway Way Italo Calvino: The Castle of Crossed Destinies Primo …