"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."
So, aside from these last few entries, I did a summer reading list for architects with hardly any book about architecture, didn’t I? Loads of them were poetry, some were non-fiction on anthropology and personal reflections, there have been novels on ruins, memory, rooms. I
This is another book that was foundational in my intellectual development and it’s actually at the crossroads between architecture, level design and user experience. Francesco Careri, its author, trained as an architect in Rome and finished in Naples with a doctoral thesis titled “Il percorso,”
Lewis Mumford never finished a degree, which is one of the main reasons I am attracted to his work: after chronic illness interrupted his studies at the City College of New York, what became one of the twentieth century’s most complete bodies of critical thinking
So, aside from these last few entries, I did a summer reading list for architects with hardly any book about architecture, didn’t I? Loads of them were poetry, some were non-fiction on anthropology and personal reflections, there have been novels on ruins, memory, rooms. I
This is another book that was foundational in my intellectual development and it’s actually at the crossroads between architecture, level design and user experience. Francesco Careri, its author, trained as an architect in Rome and finished in Naples with a doctoral thesis titled “Il percorso,”
Lewis Mumford never finished a degree, which is one of the main reasons I am attracted to his work: after chronic illness interrupted his studies at the City College of New York, what became one of the twentieth century’s most complete bodies of critical thinking
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