UIC Tower by Walter Netsch
Saturday, January 31st, 2009Yes, boys and girls, this is why they called it "brutalism".No related posts.
Archive for January, 2009
Yes, boys and girls, this is why they called it "brutalism".No related posts.
Engineering cultural significance
Wednesday, January 28th, 2009Recently I got to watch a video of Thom Mayne lecturing at UIC. What really grabbed me, however, was a statement that our school's director, Bob Somol, made while introducing the speaker: No one is more surprised [than Thom] that Thom has become the unlikely poster boy of the green architecture ...
Libertarianism redux
Sunday, January 25th, 2009After reading the answer from Steve from http://livefreeorgripe.wordpress.com/ to my earlier post on libertarianism (here), I thought my answer really deserved a separate post. My general problem with libertarianism isn't that it seeks to expand the scope of individual freedom - this I wholeheartedly agree with. Rather, it's the fact that ...
Yippeee!
Friday, January 23rd, 2009Handed in my Theory project today, together with a presentation for Technology, and managed to be no more than 15 minutes late to Structures with my homework. Hooray for me! This semester's studio is a refreshing change from last semester's, which was all-digital. Not that I had anything to complain about ...
More deep thoughts on libertarianism
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009It just won't let me go. I promised myself I'd give it up, but here it is - I think I've arrived at a sort of a synthesis of my previous two posts on the subject: Libertarians are looking for a maximum of liberty for the individual. However, if liberty is ...
