esoterics
selected esoterics
Tone on Tuesday Short Notes __ 01
architecture and design critique
RiotACT Short Notes __ 04
ET Short Notes __ 03
Dear Enrico,
I want to let you know how much we have loved living at 233 for the past ten years. It has been a very happy home for us. We love the light and the perspectives you have created, and the feel of connected space. And also the attention to detail, whether that’s the white tiled window frame in the blue bathroom, or the Mondrian kitchen doors - the art of the house.
Some ask whether we feel a bit like goldfish in the dining room where the world can look in. They don’t appreciate the outlook on the passing world that goldfish get to enjoy.
D & H
excerpt letter March 2018
ET Short Notes_01
ET Short Notes_02
TOWN PLANNING
Among the many assumptions of the twentieth century "co-operative technocracy" nothing is more absurd than the belief that a City can be planned by a team of urbanists, sociologists, civil engineers, politicians, administrators and architects, feeding computers with erudite programming and expecting to solve qualitative problems with quantitative statistics.
Cities are "Symbolic Utopic Architectural Assemblage" determined by identification with emotional rituals and their Genus Loci.
The present identification with democratic processes and material growth is producing and will continue to produce, the current urban crisis. Planners must recognise and accept more qualitative values based on the less democratic values of culture and poetry.
ET
ARCHITECTURE
Architecture is the Art of modelling voids that TALK emotions and render reason mute. It is a Theatre in search of actors. It is never static, its energy is eternally renewed by the life within.
ET
ENERGY
Life should be more for contemplation and dreaming than for action. To dream you must imagine and imagination is energy. Fuel resources are finite dreams are not.
ET
CANBERRA'S SOUL
Canberra's Soul is quality and poetry not quantity and "downtown" syndrome.
We do not need Macquarie Street, L'Etoile, Piccadilly, Quincy Square, via Veneto, or Fifth Avenue.
We need uniqueness, we are our SOURCE.
We should strive for development that nurtures Canberra's SOUL the very SOUL, that too many developers, politicians, and ill-informed people proclaim does not exist. The city of the "no where".
ET